John W. Hinchey, Esq. has been recognized as a national and international leader in the practice of construction law and has extensive experience in resolving significant construction disputes as a mediator and arbitrator. Prior to becoming a full-time arbitrator and mediator, he led the construction dispute practice for 15 years at King & Spalding, an international firm. He has also served as President and fellow of the American College of Construction Lawyers; elected as an honorary fellow in the Canadian College of Construction Lawyers; Chair and recipient of the highest achievement “Cornerstone” award from the world's largest organization of construction lawyers, the American Bar Association Forum on the Construction Industry; Chair of the Atlanta Bar Association, Construction Law Section; President of the Georgia Arbitrators Forum; Co-chair of the International Bar Association, International Construction Projects Committee; and serves on the Council of Distinguished Advisors to and guest lecturer of The Straus Institute, Pepperdine University School of Law. He serves on the Board and is a fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators, member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, CPR Distinguished Panel of Construction Arbitrators and serves on the Advisory Board of West Publishing Company’s Construction Contract Law Report.
Mr. Hinchey is the co-author of International Construction Arbitration Handbook (ThomsonWest, 2d edition, 2010); Co-author, International Construction Law: A Guide for Cross-Border Transactions (ABA, 2009); Co-author, Handbook on Arbitration Practice (2009); Co-author, Construction Law Glossary (ABA, 2010); Author, “Taming Construction Disputes Through Rapid Resolution”, Engineering News-Record (2009), and regularly speaks and presents papers to conferences on construction and dispute resolution topics around the world.
Supplementary Matters
- As a practicing lawyer and later as a partner of the international law firm of King & Spalding, LLP, he has represented many clients across a broad spectrum of construction, contracting, and procurement activities, including owners, employers, financiers, insurers, sureties, guarantors, design professionals, contractors and sub-contractors.
Representative Matters
- Mr. Hinchey has arbitrated, mediated, or served as consultant or advocate in a great variety of large national and international complex construction disputes, including the construction of an oil refinery in India; the construction of an off-shore oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico; the design and construction of an ethanol plant in the U.S. Midwest; the financing and development of a waste-to-energy plants in the Mid-Western and Eastern United States; the design and construction of a large electric power generation plant in Boston; the construction of a re-fueling airport facility in Qatar; the construction of the World Congress Center in Atlanta; ICC arbitration concerning a mining project in Peru; litigation in London involving the world’s largest beverage concentrate plant in Ireland; the design and construction of a resort hotel and residential complex in Mexico; the design and construction of a oil pipeline and storage facility in Canada and the United States; construction of a large resort in the Cayman Islands; an offshore intake system for a power plant off the Western Coast of Mexico; and the design and construction of a fibre optic transmission system covering the Eastern Seaboard of the United States. Mr. Hinchey has also served on arbitration panels involving disputes between a global transportation service company and a transcontinental railroad company and between the owner and contractors of an energy wind farm in the Eastern United States. He has also served on several DRB panels, including service as chair on a DRB involving one of the largest hotel and resort projects in the Western Hemisphere.
- Involved in all aspects of UPS and Turner Broadcasting System’s construction projects
- Served as principal counsel or negotiated or performed risk analyses of a variety of design build, turnkey, and EPC agreements for such projects as the
- Al Udeid Air Base Fueling Facility in Qatar
- Yale University construction program
- Military housing projects throughout the United States
- Turner Field in Atlanta
- Houston Astros Stadium
- New England Patriots Stadium
- Philadelphia Eagles Stadium
- Proposed new Tacoma Narrows Bridge
- Monorail project in Las Vegas, Nevada
- Renovation of the Bethpage USGA golf course for the U.S. Open (1997)
- Drafted the design, construction and procurement agreements for the 1966 Summer Olympic Games and the 2004 G-8 World Conference