Practice & experience
Arbitration, trade & investment
Experienced arbitrator of trade and investment disputes.
Provider of expert evidence to governments on trade and investment law obligations.
Arbitration
Arbitrator
Chair, UK-Sandeel (The European Union v. the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), PCA Case No. 2024-45.
President, ICSID ad hoc Annulment Committee in Strabag and Others v. Germany (ICSID Case No. ARB/19/29).
President, ICSID ad hoc Annulment Committee in Smurfit v. Venezuela (ICSID Case No. ARB/18/49).
President, ICSID ad hoc Annulment Committee in LSG Building Solutions and Others v. Romania (ICSID Case No. ARB/18/19).
Member, ICSID ad hoc Annulment Committee in Eurus Energy Holdings Corporation v. Spain (ICSID Case No. ARB/16/4).
Member, ICSID Annulment Committee in Alhambra Resources Ltd. and Alhambra Coöperatief U.A. v. Republic of Kazakhstan (ICSID Case No. ARB/16/12).
WTO Arbitration
Counsel
Counsel for New Zealand before WTO panels or Appellate Body:
- Indonesia – Importation of Horticultural Products, Animals and Animal Products (WT/DS 477);
- US – Softwood Lumber – Article 21.5 (WT/DS264).
- US – Lamb Safeguards (WT/DS/177)
Arbitrator / Panelist
Chair, China-Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights, DS611, Appeal Arbitration under Article 25 of the Dispute Settlement Understanding.
Member of the Pool of Arbitrators of the WTO Multi-Party Interim Appeal Arbitration Arrangement 2021–2025.
Panelist arbitrating disputes between Members of the WTO:
- United States – Certain Measures Relating to the Renewable Energy Sector (WT/DS/510);
- Ukraine – Anti-dumping Measures on Ammonium Nitrate from Russia (WT/DS/510);
- EU: Poultry Meat (China) (WT/DS/492).
Trade Negotiations
Managed or supervised New Zealand’s legal input into FTAs between 2004–2006 and 2011–2015.
New Zealand Legal Counsel for New Zealand-Korea Free Trade Agreement, 2014.
New Zealand Legal Counsel for the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement among Brunei Darussalam, Chile, New Zealand and Singapore, August 2004–June 2005.
New Zealand Legal Counsel for New Zealand-Thailand Closer Economic Partnership Agreement, June–December 2004.
Expert Evidence
Expert witness for the New Zealand Government before the Waitangi Tribunal on investment obligations and interpretation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (WAI 2522).
Expert before the New Zealand High Court in New Zealand Steel Ltd v Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs CIV-2019-485-553 & CIV-2019-485-552 in the matter of the exercise of powers under the Dumping and Countervailing Duties Act 1988.
Witness before the Waitangi Tribunal hearing on investment issues and the mixed ownership model as they relate to the freshwater inquiry (WAI 2358), 2012.