Robin Wood

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Robin is a Partner in the Projects & Construction team. Robin is based in London, and his practice focuses on the resolution of complex multi-jurisdictional disputes across a range of sectors including oil and gas, energy, water, rail, infrastructure, healthcare, commercial property and waste management. Robin is a fluent Spanish speaker and has a particular focus on supporting Spanish speaking contractors to anticipate, avoid and resolve disputes. As a solicitor advocate he regularly acts in international arbitration, and has experience of most of the major international arbitral institutions, as well as in litigation in the English courts. 

Robin also has experience of advising on non-contentious construction matters, including major rail, commercial property and energy projects, and was seconded to the in-house legal team at easyJet in 2013, where he gained a good understanding of the transport sector. After graduating with degrees in medicine and neuroscience from King's College London in 2009, Robin practiced medicine for a year before retraining as a solicitor.

Experience

• A Spanish oil and gas company in relation to disputes arising out of oil and gas transport infrastructure.
• An international oil major in relation to multiple disputes arising out of a petrochemicals project in Iraq.
• An international energy major in in a project advisory role during the course of an electricity interconnection project.
• The employer in an ICC emergency arbitration arising out of the construction of three gas fired cogeneration plants in the Saudi Arabia.
• Investors in a UK Hospital PFI Project in a project advisory role and subsequently in relation to High Court proceedings.
• A major Spanish contractor in relation to an LCIA arbitration arising out of a contract for the construction of major power infrastructure in Kenya.
• A major Spanish contractor in a project advisory role in relation to the construction of a desalination plant in Oman.
• A major Spanish contractor in relation to a SIAC arbitration arising out of a contract for the construction of major transport infrastructure in Nepal.
• A Spanish government entity in relation to an LCIA arbitration arising out of a contract for the construction of port infrastructure in Brazil.
• An international chemicals company in relation to the procurement and negotiation of contracts for the construction of port facilities and related infrastructure in Spain.