Construction and Engineering

• Substantial multiparty TCC dispute arising out of a scheme to build an art gallery in the sea.  Acted for the project managers and quantity surveyors facing allegations of fraud during the design competition and inadequate risk and cost management thereafter.
  
  
• Adjudication enforcement proceedings in the Court of Appeal, concerning whether the employer’s administration triggered a pay when paid clause.
  
  
• Advising Europe’s largest operator of sports and entertainment venues on contractual issues.
  
  
• £10m professional negligence claim against quantity surveyors in a project to convert and restore a historic manor house in to a first class hotel.
  
  
• £32m claim arising out of the construction of a purpose built factory, for the relocation of three businesses serving the automotive industry.
  
  
• Junior counsel in a US$35m claim relating to defects and delay in a Coca-Cola megaplant in Ballina, Ireland.
  
  
• Successfully resisted enforcement of an adjudicator’s award on the ground that “more than one dispute” had been referred.

Energy

• Negotiation and drafting of a £multi-million engineering contract (based on NEC3) for the design, installation and commissioning of a new power station. 
  
  
• Counsel in a multi-billion dollar claim arising out of a consortium agreement for the construction and operation of a gas fuelled power station in South America.
  
  
• Advised defendants in a multi-party claim arising out of an explosion at Humber Oil Refinery during the installation of a Diesel Hydrodesulphurisation Unit.
  
  
• Junior counsel acting for a Joint Venture between Birse Construction Ltd and Bilfinger and Berger UK Ltd, main contractors in respect of the construction of Didcot B power station.

Insurance

• Acted for insurers in a US$35m insurance claim arising out of civil unrest, which resulted in physical damage to and the emergency evacuation of a gold mine.  Coverage was disputed on several grounds including: the civil war exclusion clause; timing of the damage; inapplicability of the business interruption extension; coverage by other policies.
  
  
• Junior counsel in a CA case concerning the meaning and effect of joint names insurance provisions within a construction contract. 
  
  
• Advised on the effect of an insolvent defendant consenting to judgment and the possibility of recovering judgment from the insurers of the group of companies, to which the defendant belonged.
  
  
• Routinely act for professional indemnity insurers and advise on issues of coverage, non-disclosure, notification and recovery against insurers of insolvent companies."

Arbitration

• ICC Arbitrator in a dispute concerning failed project management of housing projects in Eastern Europe. (ICC).
  
  
• Three week arbitration, involving cross examination of 4 experts concerning the defective refurbishment of a nursing home and substantial claims for loss of profits. (ad hoc).
  
  
• US $35m claim arising out of the failed operation of gold mine on a South Pacific Island.  Dispute as to scope of insurance policies covering political risks in the event riots and/or war. (LCIA).
  
  
• US$1.3 billion dispute as to liability for construction and running costs and distribution of profits in respect of a thermoelectric power plant in Brazil. (UNCITRAL).
  
  
• US$40 million letter of credit dispute arising from the performance of a petrochemical plant in Qatar constructed by a French/US joint venture. (ICC).
  
  
• US$2 million claim arising out of the design, construction and commissioning of an Exxon facility on Sakhalin Island. (LCIA/UNCITRAL).

Information Technology

• Junior counsel in an ad hoc arbitration concerning breaches of a software licence agreement to supply financial software to the worldwide branches of an international bank.

Company/Insolvency

• Two week Chancery Division trial of preliminary issues arising out of a £4m partnership dispute.
  
  
• Obtained injunctive relief for minority shareholders to prevent the threatened buy out of their shares.
  
  
• Junior counsel in £230m claim against investment bankers, directors and solicitors for fraud, misrepresentation and breach of the Listing Rules and the City Code prior to the sale of a PLC.
  
  
• Junior counsel in four week trial for breach of warranty in a share sale agreement.
  
  
• Acted for chief executive of Crystal Palace Football Club (1986) Ltd in a five week directors disqualification action.