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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