Highly Experienced Industry Experts

Our team has a combined 50+ years of claims and disputes experience in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and Asia Pacific. Our aim is to provide tailored dispute resolution and dedicated support without having to resort to time-consuming and costly dispute proceedings. In a vast majority of cases, this can be achieved through alternative means.

Martin McClenn

Managing Director

Greg Caramanica

Senior Director

Terry Dawson

Director, Forensic Planning

Noufal Pathari

Director, Quantity Surveying Services

Janet Yap

Legal Consultant

WOTHOUQ Law Firm

Legal Consultant

Martin McClenn

Managing Director

Martin is a Chartered Civil Engineer and a member of the Institute of Civil Engineers (UK) with over 40 years' experience in the construction industry.

Martin has worked on a broad range of construction and civil engineering projects in the UK, Africa, Europe, North America, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. He has been working as a construction claims consultant based in Qatar for the last twelve years, including a Directorship role in a global consultancy prior to working with Senatus Consulting.

He has acted on numerous Arbitrations under several seats and rules, embedded within the client team, for all of the following parties; Employer (Developer), Consultant/PMC and Contractor sides.

Martin has been engaged as an Expert Witness in both the Quantum and Planning disciplines, providing the required reports and testimony required for Arbitration (for the Claimant and Respondent).

Further, he has acted as mediator in disputes between Clients/Contractors and Contractors/Subcontractors.

Martin has extensive experience in preparing Claims for Extension of Time and Prolongation, Disruption, Variations, and other loss/expense for all parties of the industry, i.e., Clients, Consultants, Contractors, and Subcontractors.

His analytical skills and customer centricity have garnered him a reputation for being a dedicated team leader who goes the extra mile in delivering the highest standards with excellent outcomes.

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Greg
Caramanica

Terry
Dawson

Noufal
Pathari

Janet
Yap

Greg Caramanica

Senior Director

Greg holds a BSc (Hons) Degree in Quantity Surveying and has over 30 years' experience in the construction industry.

He has extensive experience working on a wide variety of projects in the UK and the Middle East. Greg has gained significant and diverse expertise in the management and administration of the contractual and commercial aspects of projects, with extensive experience in the delivery of claims for extensions of time, disruption, and cost entitlement. Project and dispute values ranging from $50m to $10b.

Greg has acted on numerous Arbitrations under several seats and rules, embedded within the client team, both on Client and Contractor sides.

He is currently actively managing a major Arbitration on behalf of a blue-chip Client, acting as the main interface between the Client and its Legal team (Lawyers and multi-disciplined Experts).

Greg has also provided Quantum Expert Report support delivering Expert Reports in cases of Arbitration and Litigation.

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Terry
Dawson

Noufal
Pathari

Martin
McClenn

Janet
Yap

Terry Dawson

Director, Forensic Planning

Terry is a degree qualified Forensic Delay Analysis Manager with over 35 years' post-graduate experience in the construction industry.

He has extensive experience working on a broad range of projects in the UK, Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. He has been working as a construction claims consultant based in Qatar for the last sixteen years, including a Directorship role in a global consultancy prior to working with Senatus Consulting.

Terry is widely experienced in delay analysis, project planning, monitoring and control. His technical excellence combined with his expert knowledge and application of effective techniques of Project Planning and Delay Analysis, in the fields of construction and claims, have led Clients to seek Terry's expert opinion and guidance.

His analytical talents and tenacious approach have gained him a professional reputation for being a committed team leader who delivers high standards of work with credible results.

Terry has worked in numerous fields including Airports, Railways, Infrastructure, Nuclear, Marine, Ports/Marine, Commercial and Industrial Buildings.

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Noufal
Pathari

Martin
McClenn

Greg
Caramanica

Janet
Yap

Noufal Pathari

Director, Quantity Surveying Services

Noufal is a Civil Engineer with over 20 years' post-graduate experience in the construction industry in India, Africa, and the Middle East.

He has been working in various Quantity Surveying capacities based in Qatar for the last sixteen years, with various large Contractor's and Consulting Companies.

He is widely experienced in contract administration, arbitration documentation, extensions of time, variations, and insurance claims. His civil engineering background combined with his experience working with major MEP contractors have helped our clients resolve many complex commercial issues.

Noufal was part of teams involved in various complex Arbitrations, providing reports related to various disputes related to costs and variations and processing large amounts of related data.

He has extensive experience in preparing large scale variations to contracts, preparing supporting data and supporting documentation for Claims for Extension of Time and Prolongation, Disruption, Arbitrations and Insurance Claims for Clients, Contractors, Subcontractors and Insurance Companies.

Noufal has worked in various fields including stadium, roads and bridges, rail, seaports, oil and gas, healthcare, commercial, aviation, hospitality, military, and residential building projects.

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Martin
McClenn

Greg
Caramanica

Terry
Dawson

Janet
Yap

Janet Yap

Legal Consultant

Janet is a qualified lawyer with over 20 years’ post graduate experience in the Oil & Gas and Construction industry.

Janet has gained extensive experience in these industries having been employed to provide legal support to international renowned Energy Providers on major Projects in Asia, Africa and Europe for over 14 years. Prior to this, Janet was employed on numerous Civil Engineering Projects including infrastructure projects such as Airports, Rail and Highways.

Janet has a broad range of proficiencies such as: overseeing corporate and general legal requirements; providing Contractual Management; negotiating, drafting and finalising Joint Venture Contracts; preparation of sub-contract documentation; tender reviews, project correspondences; preparation and settlement of Extension of time and Loss & Expense claim as well as other contentious claims.

Janet’s legal abilities are a major asset to the team with her extensive knowledge of various contracts (EPCC, Design and Build, etc.) over a large range of international jurisdictions.

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Martin
McClenn

Greg
Caramanica

Terry
Dawson

Noufal
Pathari