Experience

• Power / Energy / Oil & Gas

  • An engineering and commissioning contractor in a multibillion dollar ICC arbitration seated in Singapore concerning the disputed termination of an EPC subcontract to build and commission a combined-cycle power plant at an Australian LNG facility.
  • A construction company in its ICC arbitration with a major oil company over delays and additional costs in a project for the construction of an FPSO platform.
  • A subsidiary of Hess Corporation in an English High Court dispute with a contractor over the construction of two offshore wellhead platforms.
  • The owner and operator of a shipyard in its $1 billion dispute with a project finance vehicle formed by a consortium of a national oil company, commercial and development banks and other financial institutions, over the construction of drillships for use in deep water oil operations.
  • A European utility in a €5 billion ICC arbitration, a complex technical dispute about the delayed construction of a nuclear power plant under an amended FIDIC Silver Book contract.
  • An oil and gas company in a $70 million series of three LCIA arbitrations relating to the termination of operation and maintenance agreements.
  • The commissioner of an FPSO in a SIAC arbitration against a contractor and operator concerning alleged additional fit-out costs, hook-up delays and construction cost overruns.

• Engineering

  • A rail infrastructure concessionaire in a £20 million LCIA Arbitration against design consultants regarding allegedly defective rail retention fastenings.
  • A motorway infrastructure authority in proceedings regarding the allegedly defective construction of a wearing course on a UK motorway.
  • A shipyard in SIAC arbitration proceedings concerning the recovery of advance payment guarantee bonds and the final valuation of work performed prior to the agreed termination of a contract to build a rock-dumping vessel.

• Construction

  • A consortium of international EPC contractors in pre-arbitral proceedings over a delay and disruption to construction of an airport in the Middle East. Included eight-month secondment to the region.
  • A contractor in a $200 million ICC arbitration about the delayed construction, and subsequent termination, of an amended FIDIC contract for the construction of a Eurasian hotel.
  • A property development company in disputes before the courts of the Channel Islands concerning two delayed developments.
  • Various contractors' final account disputes in sectors including process plant, rail and oil & gas before the courts and in UK adjudication proceedings.