At DFL Legal, we help clients structure, draft, and negotiate contracts that align with project goals while minimizing risk and future disputes. We represent owners, developers, and contractors across a wide range of project types—from major commercial facilities to complex infrastructure builds to large-scale equipment incorporated into the broader project. We strive to ensure every contract reflects both the commercial realities and legal protections necessary for a successful project.

We routinely assist with:

  • Design and construction agreements using custom forms or standard form agreements such as AIA, FIDIC, CMAA, and ConsensusDOCS
  • Design-build, construction management (CM), build-out and renovation agreements
  • Engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contracts
  • Equipment purchase contracts, purchase orders, and long-term maintenance agreements
  • Performance and payment bonds
  • Parental guarantees, letters of credit and project finance agreements
  • Project close-out agreements
  • Prime and subcontractor agreements
  • Agreements for various project delivery options such as joint ventures, alliances, partnering and teaming, consortiums, and project-specific companies

Whether you’re entering into a design-build agreement, negotiating with a general contractor, or aligning with multiple stakeholders, we bring industry insight, risk awareness, and deal-making experience to the table. Our goal is simple: clear, enforceable contracts that keep you moving forward with confidence—whether for a local renovation or a billion-dollar development.

Representative Matters

  • Counsel for an EPC contractor in connection with drafting and negotiating a pre-development agreement for a prospective public-private partnership, involving a controlled-access highway extension in Georgia.
  • Counsel for an EPC contractor in connection with drafting and negotiating EPC contracts and related agreements, involving the design and construction of two multibillion-dollar LNG facilities in Africa.
  • Counsel for a sports and exhibition authority in connection with drafting and negotiating design professional, construction manager, and prime contractor agreements, involving a convention center expansion and projects ancillary to a new stadium in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
  • Counsel for a developer-owner in connection with drafting and negotiating a $140 million-plus alliance and construction management agreement, involving a run-of-the-river hydroelectric power generation facility at an existing lock and dam in Ohio.
  • Counsel for an EPC and finance contractor in connection with drafting and negotiating an EPC and finance contract, involving the design and construction of a 69-mile natural gas transmission pipeline in Puerto Rico.
  • Counsel for an owner and midstream company in connection with drafting pipeline construction contracts, involving mainline pipeline construction projects in Pennsylvania and New York.
  • Counsel for an owner in connection with drafting and negotiating a design-build contract, involving a 25-mile railroad spur, bridges, and road crossings to service a coal mining facility in Montana.
  • Counsel for an owner in connection with drafting and negotiating consultant, architect-engineer, preconstruction, specialty system design and supply, construction manager, and general contractor agreements, involving new facilities and expansion or refurbishment projects at a financial company’s headquarters campus and regional facilities in Pennsylvania and other states.
  • Counsel for a construction contractor in connection with negotiating a turnkey engineering, procurement, construction, and start-up contract and reviewing related project agreements, involving the Natural Dam 56-megawatt cogeneration facility in Gouverneur, New York.
  • Counsel for an owner in connection with drafting a design-build agreement, involving a containment building and associated systems for slag processing at a specialty steel mill in Pennsylvania.
  • Counsel for an owner in connection with drafting and negotiating a mid-eight-figure construction management agreement, involving the refurbishment, upgrade, and buildout of a lithium-ion battery technology company’s laboratory, small-scale production, and office facility in Massachusetts.
  • Counsel for a solar farm developer and equipment supplier in connection with negotiating an eight-figure equipment sale agreement, involving solar farm projects in Europe.
  • Counsel for a developer-owner in connection with drafting an EPC contract, involving the engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning of a 150 MW wind farm in Texas with 100 wind turbine generators, a substation, and a 25-mile 138kV transmission line.
  • Counsel for an owner in connection with drafting and negotiating major facility overhaul and maintenance contracts with an equipment supplier, involving wood-residue power generation facilities in Maine.
  • Counsel for a long-term lessee and national retailer in connection with drafting and negotiating expansion, lease amendment, turnkey construction, and specialty system supply agreements, involving the expansion and upgrade of a 375,000-square-foot national distribution facility in West Virginia.
  • Counsel for a European equipment manufacturer in connection with drafting and negotiating purchase agreements and parent guarantees in a mid-eight-figure mining equipment sale transaction, involving multiple coal mines in West Virginia.
  • Counsel for a manufacturer in connection with drafting and negotiating a multiyear, multimillion-dollar valve supply contract and related sub-vendor agreements, involving a power industry facility.
  • Counsel for an owner in connection with negotiating and drafting an at-risk construction manager agreement, involving construction of a casino in Pennsylvania.
  • Counsel for an owner in connection with drafting a construction-manager-at-risk agreement, involving a $10 million expansion, renovation, and upgrade of a mixed-use facility with working glass art studios, gallery, retail shop, and management and staff offices in Pennsylvania.
  • Counsel for an owner in connection with advising on bid packages, drafting bid documents and a joint owners agreement, and negotiating a $1 billion EPC contract, involving a 750 MW coal-fired power facility in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
  • Counsel for an owner in connection with negotiating a renovation contract for existing equipment, involving an SCR unit in Cheswick, Pennsylvania.
  • Counsel for an owner in connection with drafting and negotiating major engineering, procurement, and construction contracts, involving a 500 MW combined-cycle cogeneration facility in Illinois.
  • Counsel for an owner in connection with drafting a turnkey engineering, procurement, construction, and start-up contract and related Clean Coal Technology Program documents, involving a $200 million, 70 MW pressurized circulating fluidized bed repowering project in Des Moines, Iowa.
  • Counsel for an owner in connection with drafting an EPC contract and related equipment contracts for steam turbine, combustion gas turbine, and HRSG components, involving a 540 MW combined-cycle facility in Des Moines, Iowa.
  • Counsel for a general construction contractor in connection with negotiating a fast-track construction contract valued in excess of $100 million, involving a cogeneration facility in Big Springs, Texas.
  • Counsel for an EPC contractor in connection with negotiating a $70 million EPC contract and related agreements and assisting with project closeout negotiations, involving a cogeneration facility in Syracuse, New York.
  • Counsel for a construction contractor in connection with negotiating prime construction contracts, involving four separate simple- and combined-cycle cogeneration facilities in California.
  • Counsel for a construction contractor in connection with negotiating a $35 million turnkey engineering, procurement, construction, and start-up contract and reviewing related project documents, involving a 29.5 MW cogeneration facility in East Georgia, Vermont.
  • Counsel for an owner in connection with drafting and negotiating prime construction contracts, involving the renovation of multiple power production facilities in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
  • Counsel for an owner in connection with drafting and negotiating an EPC contract, involving the design, construction, and installation of an SCR system at a power production facility in Massachusetts.
  • Counsel for a lender in connection with construction-related advice and due diligence, involving the design, construction, and operation of a 390 MW combined-cycle power facility and LNG storage facility in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
  • Counsel for an owner and church in connection with drafting owner’s representative and construction contracts, involving a $5 million renovation of a 1930s Gothic-style church in Pennsylvania.

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