Examples of Sam's expertise include:

Arbitration

• acting for a claimant main contractor in an ICC arbitration in respect of various significant failures by its design subconsultant on rail infrastructure in the Middle East;
• acting for a claimant sub-contractor in an ICC arbitration (through to hearing) in respect of a technical final account claim for marine construction works at a South American LNG terminal;
• representing a defendant contractor in an ICC arbitration (through to hearing) in respect of various alleged construction and design defects, and delay, at a chemical process plant in the UK;
• advising a defendant employer in an AFSA (Arbitration Foundation of South Africa) arbitration in respect of a West African gold mine;
• advising a claimant main contractor in an ICC arbitration in respect of delay and defects at a Russian oil and gas production facility;

Litigation

• acting for a claimant housing association in multiparty TCC litigation in respect of various fire-safety related defects at a large London residential development;
• acting for a claimant in TCC litigation in respect of various base-build construction defects at its UK corporate headquarters;
• acting for a claimant in TCC litigation in respect of design/construction defects at a UK data centre;

Adjudication

• advising a main contractor on a significant London Underground signalling upgrade programme in respect of an adjudication over extension of time and prolongation costs;
• acting for a claimant housing association in an adjudication in respect of fire-safety defects in cladding systems at five higher-risk residential buildings in Hampshire;
• acting for a defendant employer in a final account adjudication in respect of the construction of an automated storage and retrieval system warehouse;
• acting for a main contractor in an adjudication to re-assess significant compensation events in respect of new London Underground infrastructure works;
• representing a main contractor for UK motorway works in defending an adjudication claim for changed ground conditions from its piling sub-subcontractor;

Mediation

• advising a claimant sub-contractor in a mediation in respect of a technical final account claim for marine construction works at a South American LNG terminal;
• representing a claimant employer in a mediation in respect of design/construction defects at a UK data centre;

Expert determination and advisory

• acting for the owners of an offshore wind farm in a multi-issue claims management (and expert determination) process with the contractor responsible for the design, installation, commissioning and operation of the plant;
• advising a claimant main contractor to a significant urban infrastructure project in the Middle East in respect of its potential entitlement and presentation of claims;
• advising a joint venture employer of its termination rights arising from contractor delay, alongside the impact of Covid-19, on a solar project in Southern Africa;
• advising a joint venture main contractor for significant new London infrastructure, in respect of the operation of the contract, in particular in relation to Project Manager assumptions and the compensation event regime; and
• giving ad-hoc advice to a joint venture enabling works contractor for significant new high-speed rail infrastructure, in relation to terminating subcontracts, insolvency and agreements with statutory undertakers.

Sam has undertaken a secondment to the in-house legal team at ExxonMobil, advising on both contentious and non-contentious upstream oil and gas matters.

• Member of the Society of Construction Law.