Full Profile
Paul is a dispute resolution lawyer who advises commercial clients on a broad range of contentious issues. Paul’s practice centres on coverage issues and commercial disputes relating to wind farms (offshore and onshore), solar farms, interconnectors, upstream and downstream energy, engineering, marine and construction.
Paul advises on losses and disputes worldwide, and recent experience includes energy, renewables and power losses in the North Sea (English, Scottish, German, Belgian, Dutch and Danish sectors), Taiwan, Canada, United States and Mexico. He is the legal representative to the LMA Onshore Renewables Committee and Joint Natural Resources Committee Offshore Wind Sub-Committee.
He also advises international energy contractors on contractual disputes arising from onshore and offshore energy projects, with a particular focus on construction disputes. The majority of Paul's work involves an international element and he regularly advises on issues relating to jurisdiction and foreign law, and also supervises cases in many jurisdictions around the world. He has conducted arbitrations under numerous rules including ICC, LCIA, DIFC-LCIA, LMAA and UNCITRAL.
Experience
- Advising on physical damage and business interruption loss at a solar farm arising from a significant weather event in the UAE, including advising on jurisdictional issues and declaratory relief.
- Successfully recovering in China following damage to a subsea pipeline in the South China Sea.
- Advising in relation to delay to a bridge construction in Scotland following a marine incident.
- Advising in relation to faulty grouting operation at an offshore wind farm in Asia.
- Acting for international EPC contractor in ICC and LCIA arbitrations arising from commercial disputes on projects for the development of a gas booster station and the design, engineering and construction of an oil and gas early production facility and sulphur granulation plant in the Middle East, involving complex technical issues as well as delay/ disruption claims.
- Advising in relation to defective design of a joint for inter array cables at a wind farm in the UK.
- Advising in relation to failure of a major subsea power transmission cable in the UK.
- Advising in relation to multiple failures on the export cable of a UK offshore wind farm, which caused significant business interruption.
- Advising on the interpretation of knock-for-knock clauses as a matter of English law in relation to separate incidents in the Gulf of Mexico and offshore Nigeria.
