Peter Mark Yacoub is a passionate and goal-driven Special Counsel with a strong interest in Building & Construction, Infrastructure, Real Property, and Projects law. Peter has exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, and is particularly proficient in the application of legislative and judicial knowledge to complex legal issues, both on an advisory and disputes basis. Peter has an extensive practice in both front-end drafting and dispute resolution matters in the construction & infrastructure domain.
Peter is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of NSW and High Court of Australia.
Peter’s clients include Tier 1 infrastructure contractors, large-scale developers (principals), builders (contractors), and subcontractors.
Expertise
Experience
- NSW Government state-owned corporationsAdvised on construction contracts including interface with private-sector developers.
- DeicorpAdvised on the acquisition and joint venture for Kings Bay Village, a $1.8 billion mixed use project in Five Dock that will deliver new homes, retail and public space next to the future Metro, supporting the NSW plan for the Parramatta Road Corridor and boosting growth up.
- LitigationActed for the successful litigant in key cases interpreting the Security of Payment Act, Home Building Act, Design and Building Practitioners Act, Residential Apartments Building Act and Competition and Consumer Act in NSW and federal courts, shaping legal outcomes.