Gowling WLG

Energy and infrastructure finance team.

Partner, Head of International Projects and Co-Head of Africa Group

Trained Trowers & Hamlins; qualified 1996; partner 2012 (on joining the firm). Trowers & Hamlins: associate 1996-97; trainee 1994-96. Norton Rose: associate, London 1997-2006; partner, projects group, London 2006-08; partner, head of infrastructure, Middle East (Abu Dhabi) 2008-11; Wragge & Co: partner in the energy and infrastructure finance team, 2012 – present; Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co, partner, 2014. Publications of note: prepared the ‘Recycling PPPs in the Middle East’ bulletin in September 2010; prepared the ‘Spanning the Infrastructure Gulf’ bulletin in May 2010; submitted an article entitled ‘The Rise of Two-Stage Tendering’ for publication in Construction Week 2009.

Member of the Society for Construction Law; Law Society of England & Wales; International Project Finance Association (Middle East Council Member: 2008-2011).

Bristol University, LLB Law (2.1) 1993; Legal Practice Course, College of Law, Guildford, 1994; MSc Construction Law and Arbitration, King’s College London, 2001.

Chelsea Football Club season ticket holder, golf, skiing.