Chris Roux previously led Alston & Bird’s Construction & Government Contracts Team, as well as being a senior member of the Environment, Land Use & Natural Resources Group. He represented construction owners, contractors, and other construction professionals in connection with public and private projects typically involving infrastructure, transportation, energy, industrial, commercial, sports, and residential works of improvement. He provided construction counseling to clients on the myriad issues that arise in the construction business, including project planning and procurement, drafting and negotiating contracts, and claims avoidance, including advising a power company client on procurement-related issues in connection with its $4.4 billion nuclear power plant decommissioning project.
Chris has considerable experience prosecuting and defending multimillion-dollar extra work, delay, disruption, and inefficiency claims in state and federal courts, administrative hearings, and arbitrations. He also worked on some of the largest construction claims matters in the U.S. In the environmental arena, Chris represented clients in contamination claims under CERCLA, RCRA, CWA, and common law theories. His experience began in the 1980s representing oil companies in lawsuits resulting from leaking underground tanks. He also represented parties, both plaintiffs and defendants, in connection with contamination arising out of refining, manufacturing, plating, and hazardous waste storage operations. Chris tried several environmental contamination cases and developed tested relationships with environmental consultants who have a critical role in these matters.
