Delivering its specialist sector focus and extensive know-how, our international disputes team provides focused advice, strategy and advocacy concerning disputes on major projects in the energy and infrastructure sectors throughout the Middle East region and around the world.

Our team is experienced in all forms of dispute resolution, including litigation and international arbitration( commercial and treaty). They are registered to conduct litigation before the DIFC courts.

In the:

• Oil & Gas sector: we advise on disputes concerning all aspects of the oil and gas industry. Our clients include super majors, large independents, mid-caps, start-ups, petrochemical and refinery companies, governments, trading houses, equity investors and financial institutions.

• Power sector: we are trusted advisors to clients involved in conventional, renewable, alternative, nuclear and hydro power disputes across the full value-chain including generation, transmission, networks, energy storage and related infrastructure.

• Infrastructure sector: we advise a diverse range of infrastructure project participants on disputes, including those arising under joint venture agreements, EPC / EPCM contracts and related subcontracts.

• Investor state arbitration— the first foreign direct investor in post-Saddam Hussein Iraq, in a $ 1 billion ICSID arbitration against the Republic of Iraq in relation to the seizure of cement and pipe plants

• Independent energy company— providing strategic advice on the implications of a recent decision of the Supreme Court of Iraq in respect of oil and gas assets in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

• Renewable energy company— dispute arising under an EPC contract concerning the construction of a wind power project in the Middle East

• Independent power company— dispute concerning numerous breaches of an EPC contract for the construction of several power projects in Africa

• International E & P company— successful LCIA arbitration relating to amounts payable by non-operating parties under the accounting procedure to a JOA concerning a North African asset, including advising on the default mechanism under the JOA

• Owner of a solar project— dispute relating to the supply of equipment for a solar project in Jordan

• International oil and gas services company— LCIA arbitration concerning the construction of an oil and gas extraction and refining plant in Iraq

• Oil and gas services company— dispute over a Saudi Arabian project for a water disposal system

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