Over 40 years' experience in the construction industry, on all continents.
Accredited mediator, appears on the panel of adjudicators maintained by RICS, CIArb, and FIDIC. Chartered Arbitrator, and appears on arbitration panels of RICS, CIArb, DIAC, HKIAC, SIAC, and IDRC.
Franco has acted as party and tribunal Expert in Court and at Arbitration, on quantum, delay, and project management matters and has been recognised as a Global Elite Thought Leader by Who’s Who Legal.
Franco was involved/mentioned in the following cases: Piper Double Glazing Limited v. DC Contracts (1992) Ltd. [1994] 1 WLR 777; The Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Lambeth v. Floyd Slaski Partnership and Mastrandrea (unreported, 2 November 2001, Forbes, J); Skanska Construction (Regions) Ltd. v. Anglo Amsterdam Corporation Ltd. (2002) 84 Con LR 100; William Verry Ltd. v. London Borough of Camden [2006] EWHC 761 (TCC); Multiplex Constructions (UK) Ltd. v. Cleveland Bridge UK Ltd. and another (various, 2007-2008); Cantillon Ltd. v. Urvasco [2008] EWHC 282 (TCC); Colliers International Property Consultants and another v. Colliers Jordan Lee Jafaar Sdn Bhd [2008] EWHC 1524 (Comm); Fenice Investments Inc. v Jerram Falkus Construction Ltd [2009] EWHC 3272 (TCC); Fenice Investments Inc. v. Jerram Falkus Construction Ltd. [2011] EWHC 1678 (TCC); Fenice Investments Inc. v. Jerram Falkus Construction Ltd. (No. 4) [2011] EWHC 1935 (TCC); Balfour Beatty Regional Construction Ltd. v. Grove Developments Ltd. [2016] EWCA Civ 990; Fluor v Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industry Co, Ltd [2018] EWHC 1 (TCC); Victory House General Partner Ltd. v. RGB P&C Ltd. [2018] EWHC 102 (TCC); Victory House General Partner Ltd. v. RGB P&C Ltd. [2018] EWHC 1143 (Ch); RGB P&C Ltd. v. Victory House General Partner Ltd. [2019] EWHC 1188 (TCC); Essential Living (Greenwich) Ltd. v. Elements (Europe) Ltd. [2022] EWHC 1400 (TCC); Mallino Development Ltd v Essex Demolition Contractors Ltd [2022] EWHC 1418 (TCC); Lidl Great Britain Ltd v Closed Circuit Cooling Ltd (t/a 3cl) [2023] EWHC 3051 (TCC); Essential Living (Greenwich) Ltd v Conneely Facades Ltd [2024] EWHC 2629 (TCC); Essential Living (Greenwich) Ltd v Conneely Facades Ltd [2024] EWHC 2629 (TCC).
Franco holds a Doctorate in the evaluation of construction contractors’ claims, on which he has written extensively, particularly in the International Construction Law Review, for which publication he is also on the Editorial Advisory Board, and the Construction Law Journal.
