He frequently acts for market-leading clients on their business-defining disputes across the energy, infrastructure and development sectors. He is commercial, strategic and highly responsive, exhibiting a tenacity that often achieves results quickly and effectively.
Kon and his strong team of 20+ lawyers are often also deployed by clients to act as their project counsel and assist with managing delivery risk on major projects where disputes are likely to emerge. He has been involved in two of the largest arbitrations in the southern hemisphere and more recently, he has conducted disputes for clients on nation-defining renewable energy projects, including a transmission line dispute exceeding $2 billion. Over the last 10 years, his team has actively pursued the resolution of disputes, either as project counsel or in formal dispute resolution, totalling a combined value of more than $8 billion.
Kon also has over 15 years’ experience in providing strategic advice to market participants on the structuring, drafting and negotiation of contracts across a broad range of projects, including: renewable energy projects, oil and gas facilities, process plants, residential (including social and affordable housing projects) and commercial developments, rail, roads, bridges, tunnels, airports, hospitals, schools and sporting facilities.
He is consistently recognised in the various legal directories. Recently, he was identified as a leading construction lawyer in the global and domestic editions of Who's Who Legal. He is consistently recognised by his peers as a Leading Construction Lawyer in the current Australian edition of Best Lawyers, The Legal 500 and has been named by Doyle’s Guides as a Leading Construction & Infrastructure Lawyer for the last ten years.