Mike Allen is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor with more than 35 years of experience working internationally for many years, with the last 20 years based full-time in Hong Kong. He has deep experience in procurement and contract strategy, dispute resolution, and strategic advice to clients on distressed or problem projects.

Along with his many construction projects, Mr. Allen continues to work on numerous disputes and live projects for employers, contractors, and subcontractors. He provides contract advice, prepares claims and rebuttals, assists in negotiations, and has appeared in many different tribunals.

He is experienced in civil engineering, building, M&E and process plant contracts, which include the ICE 6th edition, Engineering Construction Contract (NEC), I Chem E Red and Green Book, G90, JCT, GC Works and Sub Contract Forms, including bespoke, simple, and situations of no written contract. He also has broad experience with FIDIC and various standard and ad hoc forms of contract in Europe, the Middle East, North and South Africa, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, Sri Lanka, India, PRC, Australia, and New Zealand.

Mr. Allen has worked in various sectors, including building, civil engineering, airports, mining, infrastructure, Oil & Gas Facilities, Marine Civil Engineering and Process works. This has been in both a project-related and Arbitration environment, where the work has involved the analysis of large amounts of data in producing independent valuations related to a range of claims, including delay and disruption, prolongation, and variations.

He has been appointed as a Quantum Expert Witness on a number of construction disputes, acting for both claimant and respondent, working with major firms of solicitors and barristers. He has given evidence in the High Court twice and in domestic and international Arbitrations on thirty separate occasions, as well as in various Mediations and Conciliations. He is also a CEDR-accredited mediator.

A “highly sought-after expert,” Mr. Allen has been consistently regarded in Lexology Index rankings. Mr. Allen is ranked as a Global Elite Thought Leader in several Lexology reports — including Arbitration, Construction, Consulting Experts (Construction (Quantum, Delay & Technical)), and Thought Leaders – Global Elite (in both the Arbitration and Construction Expert Witness categories). He is named as a Thought Leader in the following guides: Thought Leaders – Arbitration, Thought Leaders – Construction, Mainland China, Hong Kong SAR and Macao SAR (in both the Arbitration and Construction Expert Witness categories), and Thought Leaders – Mainland China, Hong Kong SAR and Macao SAR (Arbitration Expert Witness). He is also featured as a Recommended expert in Lexology’s Consulting Experts (Financial Advisory and Valuation – Quantum of Damages) listing.

In Lexology’s reports, clients and peers describe Mr. Allen as Mike Allen as “very well respected in the construction industry” and “one of the most experienced quantum experts on construction disputes in Hong Kong,” reflecting his 35 years’ experience in the field. His “solid” opinions and “well-structured” expert reports are valued by clients, and he is recognized for leading effective teams in quantum work for infrastructure projects. Mr. Allen earns widespread praise across Lexology’s guides for this top-tier practice, providing expert testimony in domestic and international contractual disputes in the infrastructure, energy and mining sectors, among others. Lexology also notes the following client feedback:

• “Mike is a smart, practical and overall wonderful expert”
• “He is highly recommended as a construction expert in arbitrations”
• “I was impressed with his precision and accuracy”
• “Mike has deep knowledge of the construction industry and of the processes”
• “He is a very detail-oriented expert”
• “He is a superb testifier”