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Publications & Presentations

FIDIC Red Book Contract book cover

The FIDIC Red Book Contract: An International Clause-by-Clause Commentary

Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory

Wolters Kluwer 2023

Book Reviews

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This book is likely to be the authoritative commentary on all aspects of the FIDIC Red Book Contract for years to come.

— Gary Born & Aonkan Ghosh,

Arbitration International, 2023, issue 4

Recent Speaking Engagements

  • Speaker, "FIDIC Contracts and the UNIDROIT Principles", Thirty Years of the UNIDROIT Principles - Past, Present and Future Relevance (conference), UNIDROIT Headquarters, Rome, May 6 and 7, 2024

  • Keynote speaker, “FIDIC Contracts and Civil Law”, Ho Chi Minh City International Construction Arbitration Conference, April 25, 2024, online.

  • Speaker, “Dispute Boards”, ICC Institute of World Business Law, Advanced Training, March 20, 2024, Paris

  • Speaker, “Characteristics of Standard Forms of Construction Contract”, 4th Construction Law Conference, K.N. Toosi University of Technology, February 1, 2024, online

  • “Extra-Contractual Claims against State Entities (Civil Law)”, Society of Construction Law, December 5, 2023, London

  • Panelist, “Construction Arbitration and Case Law”, FIDIC International Contract Users Conference, November 29, 2023, London

  • Panelist, “The Past, Present and Future of FIDIC Contracts”, Turkish Contractors’ Association and ISTAC, October 17, 2023, Istanbul

  • Keynote speaker, “FIDIC Contracts”, Spanish Society of Construction Law, September 28, 2023, Madrid

  • Panelist, "Multi-Tiered Clauses in Arbitration", ICC International Congress; A Century of ICC Arbitration", July 6, 2023, Mexico City

  • ICC Jurisprudential Debate relating to my book "The FIDIC Red Book Contract: An International Clause-by-Clause Commentary", June 15, 2023, Paris

  • Chairing panel on "Avoiding construction arbitrations", IBA, 8th Biennial Conference on Construction Projects, March 17, 2023, Berlin

Recent

Published Articles

  • “Extra-Contractual Claims Against State Entities under Civil Law” [2024] ICLR 330

  • “Proposal for Enforcement of Agreements of the Parties, Final and Binding Determinations of the Engineer and Decisions of the DAAB under FIDIC’s 2017 Rainbow Suite (as amended in 2022)” [2024] ICLR 106

  • "Recent French Court Decisions relating to International Contracts and Arbitration", Revista de Arbitragem e Mediação (Brazil), Vol 68, 2021 (co-author)

  • "Seppälä on the Past and Future of Construction Arbitration", Global Arbitration Review 27/28 March 2019

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Awards & Recognition

  • Ranked as a "leader in construction disputes" and as a "Global Elite Thought Leader" for Construction by Who's Who Legal 2023

  • Listed in Private Practice Powerlist – Arbitration France

  • The Legal 500, 2023

 

  • Louis Prangey Award, FIDIC’s highest award for meritorious service, 1999

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