Dispute resolution and expert witness
IPEX has a proven track record in providing dispute resolution, expert witness, and legal challenge services to law firms, operators, manufacturers, financiers and authorities in the global rail sector.
Our expertise
Our experts routinely work alongside legal teams to provide commercially informed technical advice relating to disputes and legal challenges. We provide clarity and understanding to complex issues relating to train procurement, operations, maintenance, safety and regulatory compliance. Our advice is often delivered in high-stakes contexts such as litigation, arbitration, or regulatory scrutiny, where IPEX’s independence and technical depth are critical.
IPEX utilises extensive knowledge gained advising across all elements of the train life cycle, from business case development to procurement and through to whole life asset management and deployment of maintenance obligations. Our team has worked on the procurement of over 3,500 rail vehicles in multiple international jurisdictions, and is familiar with the associated nuanced technical and commercial issues.
It is mainly through our advisory work and working in senior roles within train operating companies, leasing companies, and global manufacturers that we have developed extensive knowledge in contracts deployed in the rail sector relating to train procurement, leasing, operations and maintenance. This includes the crafting and deployment of MSA, TSA, TSSSA, LTMA, SLA contracts, as well as franchise agreements, lease agreements and complex procurement tenders.
Our expert consultants combine practical, hands-on experience in operational railways with innovative practices and insight gained through advising on cutting-edge global projects. This blend of best practices, benchmarks, and critical experience, rounded into a single expert individual or team (as required), results in highly credible and commercially informed advice, essential for the most complex legal disputes. Our services include:
- analysing and opining on contractual entitlement
- identification of cause and effect in relation to significant events
- technical and commercial support in pursuit of or in defence of legal claims, including independent reporting and court hearing testimony
- expert witness services, including providing credible evidence in court proceedings
- investigating complex commercial / engineering issues and providing comprehensive analysis to quantify cost and time impacts
- navigation and analysis of complex contractual performance regimes, contract abatements and liquidated damages
- analysing and proposing appropriate compensation due under breach of procurement, maintenance or operational contracts
- Dispute resolution
- Dispute avoidance
- Expert witness
- Legal challenge
- Contractual entitlement analysis
- Independent reporting and hearing testimony
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Trust us to accelerate your vision
Established in 2003, IPEX has a wide client and project base in global rail and transport consultancy. Our team has a combined wisdom of over 200 years’ working with major blue chip rail organisations, covering all aspects of rail operations, maintenance, and projects. Talk to us today and see how we can help you.
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