Area of Focus

Mr. Hughes serves as counsel in the Real Estate, Infrastructure and Public Finance group at Kamlet Reichert.  He is an experienced project developer, contract negotiator, construction counsel, and claims manager for industrial and heavy infrastructure projects.

Prior to joining Kamlet Reichert, Mr. Hughes served as Vice President & Chief Counsel of CH2M Hill Constructors, Inc.  In this capacity, he provided the legal and risk management framework for the company’s Design/Build/Operate business.  While at CH2M Hill, Mr. Hughes was responsible for overseeing international and domestic project development and management for water, wastewater, federal, transportation, and environmental projects.  He was also Counsel to the President of the company’s Water Business Group and to the U.S. and Canadian operations managers.

Prior to CH2M Hill, Mr. Hughes was Principal Counsel and Assistant Secretary to Bechtel Corporation.  In his 24 years with Bechtel, he was responsible for energy legislative affairs in the Washington Executive Office, then for both fossil-fired and nuclear power projects for the San Francisco and Houston regional power offices.  He then spent five years in the London petroleum division, covering offshore oil production projects in the North Sea, Egypt, and Qatar, and refinery and LNG projects in Indonesia.  Then, as Principal Counsel for Bechtel Civil, Inc., he was responsible for all legal services for the infrastructure division delivering new transit systems, airport expansions, dam and hydroelectric facilities, port and cargo handling facilities, and municipal and state penal institutions, including substantial project financings.

Admissions & Professional Associations
• Supreme Court of California
• U.S. Supreme Court
• Member, Arapahoe County and Colorado Bar Associations
• Member, World Economic Forum: Engineering & Construction Risk Institute, Inc. (“ECRI”) Organizer, Director & Assistant Secretary
• Member, State Bar of California: Corporate Law Departments Committee 1981, 1989-1992; Northern California Chair 1991-1992; Business Law Section
  Executive Committee 1992-1995
• Member, American Bar Association: Section of Business Law, Public Utilities Section;  Forum on the Construction Industry – Chair, Division 11 Steering
  Committee (Corporate Counsel) 2000-2002
• Member, Bar Association of San Francisco: Corporate Law Departments Section Chair 1980
• Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• Member, Rotary Club of the Denver Tech Center

Education
• J.D., Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley
• B.S., Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, San Diego State College

Representative Projects
• Masdar carbon-neutral city program management, Abu Dhabi
• Halifax Regional Municipality water treatment plant, Nova Scotia
• Del Webb water management system, Arizona
• Manukau Wastewater Services LLC, new wastewater treatment plant and harbor remediation, New Zealand
• City of Tampa Hillsborough River water treatment plant design/build (DBIA award winner), Florida
• City of Seattle Cedar River water treatment plant design/build/operate, Washington
• Southern California Edison contract operations for transmission lines to be sold to State of California
• U.S. Army utility privatization at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and Fort Irwin, California
• City of San Jose and Calpine Energy offsite utility services contract, California
• BART Extensions Program for regional rapid transit system, San Francisco Bay Area
• McCarran Airport Expansion, Las Vegas
• Omniport Napier automated port facility, New Zealand
• Ankara-Gerede Motorway project, Turkey
• Aquaculture project, Thailand
• Statoil Gullfaks B & C offshore oil platforms, Norway
• Mobil Beryl B offshore oil platform, UK
• SUCO offshore production platforms, Red Sea, Egypt
• North Field Gas Project, Qatar
• Balikpapan Refinery, Borneo, Indonesia
• Badak LNG project, Borneo, Indonesia
• Hitachi & Mitsubishi Heavy Industries nuclear services agreements, Japan
• Williams Field Services gas-fired cogeneration plant, New Mexico
• WPPSS nuclear power units, takeover contract, Washington
• Trojan Nuclear Power Plant, Oregon
• Gulf States Utilities coal-fired power station, Louisiana

Publications & Speeches
• Speaker, 48th Annual Meeting of Invited Attorneys, Victor O. Schinnerer Company, May 2009 “What engineering & consulting firms need to know (and should do) before they start to practice internationally”
• Speaker, “Risks and Opportunities for E&C Companies in Program Management” sponsored by ECRI, Essen, Germany, December 2008
• Speaker, “Green Building Challenges: The Masdar Experience” World Economic Forum Industry Partnership Meeting, New York, Oct. 2008, and ABA Annual Water Conference, San Diego, California, February 2009
• Speaker, “Troubled Projects: The Stockton Experience” sponsored by ECRI , Stockholm, Sweden, June 2008
• Speaker, “Global Opportunities and Threats for Middle Market Companies Around the World,” The Association for Corporate Growth Conference, Denver, Colorado, March 2008
• Speaker, “Water: The Most Critical Resource for Development – The Water Crisis,” World Economic Forum Industry Partnership Meeting, London, England, May 2007
• Program Organizer and Co-Chair, “Getting It Right: Organizing Complex Projects to Allocate Risk and Minimize Disputes,” ABA Forum on the Construction Industry, Fall Program 2001

Community Involvement
• President of the Rotary Club of the Denver Tech Center for the Rotary
   year 2010-2011
• Sponsor the Interact Club of Thomas Jefferson High School
• Chair of the Water & Sanitation Task Force of Rotary
   District 5450 (Northern Colorado)
• Active with the Engineering & Construction Risk Institute (ECRI)