Biography: Construction

Mr Dingess concentrates his practice in the areas of construction and engineering, and general commercial and international law. For more than 30 years, he has managed and participated in dispute resolution, contract negotiation, and drafting.

Mr Dingess has extensive experience negotiating and drafting complex engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts, as well as domestic and international project financed transactions. He also has acted as lead counsel on infrastructure and oil and gas mega-projects, each having a value of several billion dollars. Mr Dingess has been instrumental in several multi-million dollar industrial turnkey projects, including oil and gas, iron and steel, chemical, pulp and paper, and power generation facilities. In addition, he has been involved with numerous electric generation projects aggregating approximately 10,000 megawatts.

Before forming DFL Legal, Mr Dingess founded and served as the global practice leader of the construction and engineering practice group of a major international law firm with approximately 1,800 lawyers and 36 offices worldwide. He has acted as lead counsel in numerous federal and state court trials throughout the United States, as well as domestic (AAA) and international (ICC, UNCITRAL, ICDR and AAA) arbitrations.

Mr Dingess has a JD from Southwestern University School of Law, 1978, and a BA from Allegheny College, 1973. He is admitted at the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the US Court of Appeals: second, third and fifth circuits, the US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Pro Hac Vice admission to state and federal courts throughout the United States, including California, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Louisiana, Ohio and Texas. He is a member of the International Bar Association London (arbitration and international construction projects committees), the American Bar Association (international, construction, litigation and energy sections), the Pennsylvania State Bar Association (litigation and construction sections), the Allegheny County Bar Association, construction law section (chair 1998), a member of the national panel of arbitrators of the American Arbitration Association, and the panel of arbitrators of the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR, international division of the American Arbitration Association). He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America (bet-the-company litigation, commercial litigation and construction law); Pennsylvania Super Lawyers; Best Lawyers in Pittsburgh; The International Who's Who of Construction Lawyers and The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers.

His representations include lead counsel for supplier of a super-critical steam generator for a coal-fired electric generation facility with a value of approximately US$2 billion, lead counsel for a multinational engineering and construction company regarding an offshore oil and gas project dispute regarding subsea flow line issues, lead counsel for a multinational engineering and construction company regarding an onshore gas-to-liquids project located in Africa with an original value of approximately US$1.7 billion, lead counsel for one of the world's largest construction companies for the negotiation of the first natural gas pipeline project located in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, lead counsel for one of the world's largest multinational engineering and construction companies with respect to over US$1 billion in total claims on a single mega-project, and lead counsel for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, through its agency the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority (MTA), for approximately seven years concerning a series of disputes on the US$14.6 billion 'Big Dig' project in Boston.