Thomas Hofbauer

Thomas Hofbauer leads the Construction, Projects & Assets Practice in Continental Europe. Thomas is a civil engineer with more than 25 years of experience in the construction and engineering industries and acts as both delay and quantum expert in English and German language disputes.

Thomas has a background in strategic procurement, contract management and claims management for rail, infrastructure, industrial, IT, power, buildings and rolling stock projects across Europe. His contract and claims management expertise ranges from contract advice to final account settlement.

Thomas specialises in expert witness services, contract and risk analysis, as well as in delivering project audits to assess delay, disruption, damages and cost for projects in excess of €2 billion with disputed values of more than €500 million. He has given evidence in arbitral proceedings at the ICC in Paris, the VIAC in Vienna and the SCAI in Zurich, and has acted as an expert for disputes across Europe, in China, India, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, Turkey and the United States.

Thomas has lectured on international project management at the University of Applied Sciences in Stuttgart for more than four years and continues to regularly advise clients within German-speaking countries on a variety of large-scale, national and international projects. He also delivers regular lectures on “the expert in arbitration” at the Swiss Academy of Arbitration for the Certificate of Advanced Studies (“CAS”) in Arbitration qualification. In addition to his work, he provides claims management training to a range of clients and sits on the advisory board for the M.B.A. course, “International Commercial and Contract Management,” at the Dresden International University.

Thomas has been recognised as a thought leader in both arbitration and construction by Who’s Who Legal.