"Joe is conscientious and has a deep knowledge of arbitration law - he’s someone to watch and is going places." (Legal 500, 2021)
Since starting practice to present, Joe has been engaged almost full-time in London and Geneva on a large and long-running multi-million pound ICC oil and gas arbitration, and substantial related matters, working with teams in Poland, The Netherlands, Ireland, Curaçao, Scotland, the US, Nigeria, Mauritius, London and Switzerland.
Joe is currently or has recently been instructed on the following other international arbitration matters;
- Acting in 2021 in a c.£1 billion ICC arbitration relating to a production sharing and joint venture agreement.
- Acting for a foreign state (led by David Wolfson QC and Nehali Shah of One Essex Court) in resisting the enforcement of a c.£70 million award under s.103 of the Arbitration Act 1996, including obtaining relief from sanctions (A v B [2018] 5 WLUK 366) and third party debt order proceedings involving issues of foreign law and State Immunity (Hardy Exploration and Production vs India [2018] EWHC 1916 (Comm.)).
- Acting (led by Mark Howard QC and others) for the claimants in an UNCITRAL arbitration concerning claims of over US$150m relating to a joint venture for the production and marketing of base oil products
- Acting in a major investment treaty arbitration against Uzbekistan in 2017.
- Providing expert evidence in an ICC arbitration relating to matters arising out of the SFO investigation of Airbus (with Bettoseraglini, Paris).
- Advising on and drafting (with Schillings) on multi-tier arbitration clauses for a complex multi-jurisdictional confidentiality matter.
- One of the largest and most high profile enforcements in the Irish Courts (with Matheson) of an arbitral award, including advising on injunctive relief and questions of confidentiality, and appearing in the High Court in Dublin in the proceedings.
- Enforcement Proceedings (with Houthoff Buruma,) of an arbitral award in The Netherlands, including providing expert law opinions on several aspects of English law and arbitration matters for Court proceedings.
- Witness Examination and Disclosure Proceedings, including in Dutch Court of Appeal (with Houthoff Buruma), arising out of an alleged oil and gas fraud, including several expert opinions and attending hearings in The Netherlands.
- Enforcement and injunctive relief proceedings (with BSJP, Poland) of an arbitral award in the Warsaw Commercial Court and Court of Appeal, including expert opinions and appearances in the Warsaw Commercial Court.
- Successfully resisting a s.68 claim (using the summary procedure) in the Commercial Court in relation to a c.£15 million arbitral award.
- Successfully obtaining a s.66 enforcement in the Commercial Court for a large arbitral award.
Joe has lectured and written on arbitration, including for the forthcoming Pleadings in Arbitration (2nd Edition), provides regular in-house training for Euromoney Plc’s seminar programme for leaders in the oil and gas industry, and was a keynote speaker on arbitration at the CARICOM Oil and Gas conference in Barbados attended by government ministers from across the Caribbean.