Commercial management & turnaround · UK infrastructure

Commercial strength for infrastructure contracts — maintained, or recovered.

Hytheorem provides experienced commercial leadership for UK infrastructure contracts. From day-to-day commercial management and governance to fractional commercial director services and contract turnaround support, we specialise in helping clients protect margins, recover performance, and strengthen commercial outcomes across term maintenance, highways, water, and various other sectors.

MCIArb MSc Construction Law, King's College London 15+ years on UK infrastructure frameworks
What we do

Two priorities: maintaining commercial control and restoring commercial performance.

Most of our work focuses on maintaining strong commercial control — keeping accounts current, governance robust, and risk visible so contracts remain on track. When performance has deteriorated, we apply the same senior commercial expertise to stabilise, recover, and strengthen the position.

Day-to-day · kept strong

Commercial Management & Governance

  • Applications, valuations and accounts maintained in good order
  • Commercial governance, assurance and performance reporting
  • Robust subcontractor and supply-chain management
  • Effective management of contract change and compensation events
  • Senior commercial leadership, mentoring and strategic direction
When it slips · brought back

Commercial Recovery & Turnaround

  • Resolution of disputed and ageing final accounts
  • Recovery of margin lost through unmanaged change and variations
  • Commercial resolution of rates, pricing and traffic-management disputes
  • Management of subcontractor exposure and commercial liabilities
  • Strengthening records, evidence and entitlement to support recovery
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Commercial Director · major UK infrastructure contractor
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Regional Director · major UK infrastructure contractor
Services

Senior commercial leadership, tailored to the challenge.

From day-to-day commercial management to full turnaround — scaled to the situation.

Ongoing · core

Commercial Management & Governance

Day-to-day commercial leadership delivered with discipline and control — applications, valuations, final accounts, subcontract management, governance, assurance, and performance reporting.

For: contracts and frameworks that require experienced, dependable commercial management and robust governance.
Ongoing

Fractional Commercial Direction

Senior commercial leadership on a retained, part-time basis — providing the judgement, challenge, and strategic oversight of an experienced Commercial Director without the cost of a full-time appointment.

For: businesses that require senior commercial leadership without increasing permanent headcount.
Specialist

Embedded Turnaround

Hands-on commercial intervention for underperforming contracts and portfolios — recovering entitlement, resolving disputes, strengthening commercial controls, and restoring profitability and confidence.

For: contracts requiring decisive action, practical recovery, and measurable commercial improvement.
How we work

Diagnose. Control. Sustain.

01

Diagnose

Develop a clear understanding of the commercial position — identifying where value exists, where exposure lies, and what can be protected, recovered, or is at risk.

02

Control

Establish robust commercial controls, records, valuations, and contractual positions to protect value, manage risk, and prevent further commercial leakage.

03

Sustain

Convert recovery into lasting performance through settled accounts, defensible commercial positions, and governance that remains effective long after the immediate challenge has passed.

About

Built by people who've run the recovery, not just reviewed it.

Hytheorem is led by a chartered commercial professional with an MSc in Construction Law and senior experience across major UK infrastructure term maintenance frameworks — the kind of operator brought in to keep contracts commercially strong, and to stabilise the ones that have started to slip.

We keep the practice deliberately small and senior. You get the people who do the work, not a pyramid you pay for.

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Start a conversation

Bring us in early — or when it's already hard.

A short, confidential conversation is usually enough to tell whether we can help — and whether it's worth doing.

Engagement-ready.
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