Nicholas Brown
Partner
Nicholas is a multi jurisdictional disputes lawyer, arbitrator, FIDIC adjudicator and author with 30 years’ experience on major global infrastructure and energy projects. He writes leading textbooks, teaches at King’s College London, and serves on several international arbitration and ADR committees.
Nicholas's experience
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Advising a major offshore wind developer on two large scale Baltic windfarm projects, providing contract management, construction risk and regulatory support, including legal opinions, contract guides, landfall/HDD risk assessment and strategic input on project execution, delivering pragmatic, commercially aligned guidance across technical, contractual and delivery interfaces.
- Poland
- Energy & Natural Resources
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Advising a multinational trading company seeking to recover relief and compensation arising from Covid-19 force majeure events in connection with the engineering and construction of a coal-fired project situated in Indonesia. Representing them in successful efforts to achieve a settlement of the dispute by means of ad hoc commercial mediation.
- $1.39bn
- Indonesia and Singapore
- Construction Disputes
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Advising the developer operator of a floating offshore wind farm on main bearing performance issues and representing the operator in commercial arbitration arising from those issues.
- £130m
- United Kingdom
- Arbitration
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Representing an international joint venture contractor in ICC arbitration proceedings in defence of claims amounting to in excess of $250m, and counterclaims to recover bond amounts and other payments owed to it.
- Saudi Arabia
- Infrastructure
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Arbitrator in a Tokyo-seated commercial arbitration governed by the ICC 2021 Arbitration Rules, involving Japanese parties concerning the delayed completion of a photovoltaic power plant situated in Japan.
- Japan and United Kingdom
- Adjudication
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Advised a multinational conglomerate on an early taking over of a JPY37bn ($384m) contract for electrical and mechanical equipment provision for the under-construction urban railway Line 1. The advice was in the context of arbitral proceedings and covered both the procedure and substance of the claim.
- $384m
- Vietnam and Japan
- Diversified Industrial
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Advising a US-headquartered engineering consultant on licensing requirements and compliance in relation to two 50MW onshore wind power projects in Vietnam, including on potential enforcement actions by Vietnamese authorities and claims made by the employer, a major Vietnamese renewable energy developer
- Vietnam and Singapore
- Construction Advisory & Disputes
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Advising and acting for a joint venture between two listed Japanese multinational engineering companies in multiple adjudication and domestic arbitration disputes against its subcontractors arising from the construction of the two largest power stations in South Africa.
- South Africa and Japan
- Arbitration
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Advising and acting for claimant Japanese EPC contractor to pursue +70 individual claims valued at US$55 million against JV partner to prepare expert evidence of delay, prolongation and quantum, and draft Statement of Claim in ICC arbitration on a coal fired power plant project in SE Asia
- Thailand and Japan
- Arbitration
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Advising a Japanese trading company who is in a joint venture with a large US-owned equipment manufacturer on the the DaTan Combined Cycle Power Plant Expansion Project for Units 8 & 9 being procured by the Taiwan Power Company.
Credentials
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2022King's College London - Guest lecturer
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2019Founder member - ICC Singapore Arbitration Group
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2015DipLCIArb, FCIArb
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2006Qualified - Hong Kong SAR
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2003Qualified - England and Wales
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1999LL.M QUT
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1999Joined Pinsent Masons
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1996Qualified - Australia - Queensland
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1996LL.B (Hons) QUT
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