LaSalle Partners International is being sued for payments allegedly owing for construction works carried out at Marble Arch House and Cavendish Square, London W1.
Constructive plc, now in liquidation, is seeking more than £85,000 for invoices and pensions that, it claims, remain unpaid in respect of the works.
LaSalle Partners is a dormant subsidiary of global real estate investment manager LaSalle Investment Management, and is said to have been operating, at the material time, within the LaSalle Group.
According to the claim, LaSalle Partners contracted with Constructive Ltd, a company later purchased by Constructive plc in July 1999, to provide of construction services at the site.
Constructive plc maintains that, in August 1999, LaSalle Partners was formally notified of the July purchase, and consented to the claimant completing the building contracts as agent for Constructive Ltd.
However, the construction company claims that, despite invoices being sent to LaSalle Partners in February and March 2000 and repeated requests by an agent of the company’s liquidators following its liquidation in June 2000, the sums remain unpaid.
It is seeking damages of £86,822.41, plus interest.
Constructive plc (in liquidation) v LaSalle Partners International Queen’s Bench Division
References: EGi Legal News 10/06/04
