Brick Court Chambers

Senior counsel specialising in international arbitration. Has undertaken in excess of two hundred international cases as arbitrator or counsel (ICSID, ICC, LCIA, ICDR/AAA, UNCITRAL, DIFC-LCIA, CAS, and DIAC in London, Paris, Zürich, Munich, Lausanne, Dubai, New York, San Francisco, Geneva, Helsinki, Miami, Stockholm and Dublin). These cases have encompassed energy, mining, intellectual property, hedge funds, investments, joint ventures, construction, competition, and general commercial contracts. He was counsel in the leading case of Dallah v Pakistan before the English courts.

Admitted Ireland 1992 King’s Inns, England & Wales 1996 Middle Temple, Northern Ireland 1998, Inner Bar of Ireland as Senior Counsel 2010; voted by peers on to the 2006 Global Arbitration Review ‘45 under 45’ leading lights of international arbitration; co-chair IBA litigation committee 2008-09; chair, host committee 2008 ICCA Conference (marking the 50th anniversary of the New York Convention.

ICCA Governing Board Member; IBA Council Member of the Legal Practice Division.

University College, Dublin (1990 BCL Law); The Honourable Society of King’s Inns, Dublin (1992 BL Bar School); Queen Mary, University of London (2004 Post-Graduate Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration (with merit)).