Villa Rosa Kempinski, Nairobi, Kenya.
The 2024 annual Africa Construction Law (ACL) Conference, scheduled for Monday 3rd and Tuesday 4th June, will be held in-person at the Villa Rosa Kempinski, in Nairobi, Kenya.
The theme for this year’s conference is “Building Resilience in Africa’s Construction Sector”. The conference is a gathering of practitioners working in the infrastructure and energy space across Africa and will see a confluence of construction law professionals experienced in African projects interrogate trends in construction law and infrastructure across English-speaking, Francophone and Lusophone African jurisdictions.
HKA Speakers
Claudia O’Brien
Partner, and Head of Africa Operations, HKA
Claudia O’Brien is a Partner and Head of Africa Operations with HKA, based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is an admitted Attorney of the High Court of South Africa with over 25 years of experience in the investigations and forensics sectors, covering both the public and private sectors.
Stefan Brill
Partner, HKA
Stefan is a legal professional with a career spanning over 20 years, commanding a wealth of experience within the international construction and engineering domains. His proficiency encompasses an array of disciplines including claims and contract management, dispute resolution, and strategic advisory consultancy.
Panel discussion:
Dispute resolution and risk management in Africa’s construction sector
The session will focus on the main sources and types of disputes and risks in Africa’s construction sector and how they can be prevented or resolved, the advantages and disadvantages of different dispute resolution mechanisms, such as arbitration, mediation, adjudication, and litigation, in the African context, and how can the use of innovative and collaborative approaches to dispute resolution and risk management, such as partnering, early neutral evaluation, and dispute boards be better implemented by construction law practitioners in Africa.
Villa Rosa Kempinski, Nairobi, Kenya.
