Gowling WLG‘s international arbitration team comprises specialists in construction, engineering, technology and life sciences-related arbitrations. Gordon Bell is an international arbitration specialist, who ’goes above and beyond to achieve a great outcome’. Birmingham-based Tom Price is CIS and CEE desk head, and Mike Stewart is a construction and infrastructure project disputes expert. Other key figures are energy and infrastructure international arbitration practitioner Mary Lindsay and Patrick Fox, who acts in proceedings conducted under all major arbitration institutions and rules.
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- ‘They are really proactive and skilled. Easy to work with.’
- ‘Extensive experience of construction arbitration, understands what makes tribunal ticks, and knows the key players.’
- ‘Gordon Bell is wise and calm under pressure.’
- ‘Gordon Bell is a thoroughly nice person and goes above and beyond to achieve a great outcome.’
Work highlights
- Acting for a major international contractor in an ICC arbitration arising from the construction of an industrial plant in Saudi Arabia.
- Acting for a joint venture of international contractors in relation to an ICC arbitration that concerns the construction of a water facility in the Middle East.
- Representing a design and build contractor in an arbitration, which was brought by the operator of a petrochemical facility in the UK, the claim relating to defective work allegations.
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Gordon Bell