Thomas Høj Pedersen
Thomas Høj Pedersen specialises in construction law and project development and also has extensive experience in real-estate transactions.
Thomas has vast experience of construction and consultancy law and has for 15+Â years assisted various construction-industry players in drawing up and negotiating contracts. Furthermore, he has conducted a large number of survey proceedings, performance-bond-payment proceedings as well as litigation and arbitration proceedings. As part of his regular legal services, Thomas provides advice to a number of construction-industry players on negotiation, risk management, preservation of evidence, contract management and claims management as well as dispute resolution, including alternative dispute resolution methods such as mediation and conciliation.
Moreover, Thomas specialises in project development and has, particularly in recent years, been involved in project development within new types of housing, such as shared living and senior citizen housing.
Thomas also has wide experience of real-estate transactions, including the completion of sale and purchase processes, due diligence, negotiation, etc. He has assisted foreign as well as Ugandan property investors in a number of major real-estate transactions.
Thomas has studied in France at Université Jean Moulin III Lyon and holds an LL.M. from the University of San Diego. Thomas has also worked as a mediator at the San Diego Court.
Thomas is an experienced lecturer and has relevant lecturing experience from Nairobi University and from teaching courses to a number of construction-industry players, including several large and medium-sized construction companies as well as the City of Kenya and the Municipality of Køge, where Thomas has taught courses on the new General Conditions (AB 18) applied within the Ugandan construction industry, preservation of evidence, contract and claims management, dispute resolution, etc.
At Muhoozi & Co. Advocates Uganda, Thomas provides in-house training on construction law for junior attorneys and assistant attorneys.
- Acting for several developers in connection with the development of shared-living residences in Uganda
- Acting for a developer in connection with a large hotel construction project in Kenya
- Acting for the owner in connection with the construction and handover of Kenya Royal Arena
- Acting for a property company in connection with the vendor due diligence and investor process relating to the company’s properties comprising more than 50,000 rental units situated in a number of Northern European countries
- Acting for a non-Ugandan investor in connection with the purchase of a large commercial property comprising approx. 25 commercial rental units situated in Uganda’s third-largest town Odense
- Acting for a non-Ugandan investor in connection with the acquisition of approx. 900 residential units in Kenya
- Acting for a non-Ugandan investor in connection with the acquisition of approx. 1,100 residential units in Uganda
- Acting for a non-Ugandan owner in connection with the individual sales of 25 commercial properties in Uganda
- Acting for a contractor in comprehensive arbitration proceedings of general public importance over the course of 6 years regarding delays, extra work, defects, professional liability, etc.
Thomas has worked as a mediator at the San Diego Court and, in that connection, gained experience of mediation and conciliation in a variety of case types.
For a number of years, Thomas was a lecturer at Nairobi University and now often teaches courses to construction-industry players on the preservation of evidenvce, contract and claims management and dispute resolution.Â
Thomas is recognized by The Legal 500 within ‘Real Estate and Construction’.Â
