Renowned as a top-tier practitioner by leading legal directories, Mr. Lal's practice covers international construction arbitration in relation to complex, high-value international projects. Mr. Lal represents clients in a range of high-value contentious and non-contentious construction law disputes, including complex contractual interpretation, delay and disruption, professional negligence, defects, taking over/completion, liquidated damages, payment, variations and termination.With respect to transactional matters, Mr. Lal's practice includes drafting International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC), New Engineering (NEC), Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT), Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE) and Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) contracts, as well as target cost and alliance contracts.

Mr. Lal is ranked Band 1 in both construction and international construction arbitration in Chambers UK, and in the top-tier in UK Legal 500. He has been a member of the Council of the Society of Construction Law since 2006. He is a two-time recipient of the Parkman Medal by the Institution of Civil Engineers and chairman of the Oriel Law Society, University of Oxford.Mr. Lal's recent notable engagements include advising a sovereign developer on a series of complex delay/disruption disputes in Qatar; advising the employer on the world's largest offshore wind farm project; acting for a sovereign developer defending a series of contractor's claims on a FIDIC EPC project in Cairo; and advising on the Iraq Crude Oil Export Expansion Project. He has also acted for employers on a dispute relating to negligence causing delay and disruption on a 1200 megawatt coal-fired power station; on a dispute concerning nuclear decommissioning of a tritium reactor; and on arbitrations surrounding oil drilling contracts in the North Caspian Sea and Iraq.