With ‘very strong construction expertise’, Keating Chambers is well-placed to handle major construction arbitrations concerning major energy, transport, shipbuilding and infrastructure projects across the globe, namely Hong Kong, the Middle East, Singapore, South Africa and Australia. David Thomas KC has extensive experience acting as counsel in arbitrations concerning landmark development projects in the Middle East, while Veronique Buehrlen KC has recently acted in a number of major energy arbitrations. The set also has a strong junior bench, including Peter Brogden, whose recent experience includes major construction matters in the ICC, DIFC, LCIA and ADCCAC, Sarah Williams who excels in engineering arbitrations before the ICC and LCIA and Wen Jin Teh, who focuses his arbitration practice on matters in the Middle East and Asia-Pacific.
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Profile
Position
Peter is an experienced construction barrister with principal specialities in construction, energy, shipbuilding and technology disputes. He has worked on a range of engineering disputes, including power stations, pipelines, oil rigs, LNG processing facilities, refinery and extraction, biomass and civil infrastructure projects. His work includes arbitrations seated around the World, including Australia, Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Africa.
Highly praised by clients for being ‘a fantastic barrister’ with a ’good eye for detail’ and a ‘real pleasure to work with’ he is recognised in the legal directories noting his ’superior forensic capability enabling him to distil complex points and identify risks and issues’. He is also ranked in Legal 500 Asia for “his technical expertise, wider than the law, [which] sets him apart from the others.”
Peter is an Honorary Professor at University College London, where he teaches contract administration and law.
Peter also sits on the Bar Council’s Information Technology Panel which advises barristers and government departments on the security, data management, GDPR and emergent technologies.
He is an accredited panel adjudicator, and a contributing author of Keating on Construction Contracts and Keating on Offshore Construction and Marine Engineering Contracts.
Recent work includes:
- Lead counsel in $100m ICC arbitration concerning a series of bridge structures in Sydney.
- Representing a major Australian contractor in seven multi-billion dollar arbitration hearings concerning near-shore marine works at a gas processing facility.
- Instructed by the world’s largest construction company in a delay and disruption dispute concerning a South African coal-fired power station.
- Instructed by a large Australian contractor in a series of LCIA/DIFC international arbitrations relating to a large UAE-based Mall and luxury residential development.
- Representing a Korean joint venture in a $600 million dispute about a power station in the Middle East.
- Represented a Hong Kong consultancy in a HK$37m domestic arbitration with a Chinese bank.
- Instructed by a Singaporean buyer in an LMAA arbitration with a Chinese yard concerning an offshore platform support vessel.
Career
Called 2006; Inner Temple.
Tenant, Keating Chambers, 2008 to date.
Languages
Russian
Memberships
Society of Construction Law (SCL)
Technology & Construction Bar Association (TECBAR) (Treasurer)
Society for Computers & Law (SCL)
Education
Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL), University of Oxford, 2006
Bar Vocational Course, Nottingham Law School, 2005
LLB Law Degree (First Class Hons), London School of Economics, 2002
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- 'James Luxmoore leads an excellent clerk’s room and are fantastic on logistics and managing solicitors and clients.'
- 'James Luxmoore and Will Shrubsall are incredibly hard-working, responsive, intuitive, knowledgeable and accommodating.'
- 'Rob Garvan is excellent - responsive, efficient and easy to work with.'
- 'I've always found the clerks at Keating to be excellent: super responsive, friendly, and nothing ever being too much trouble - exactly what an instructing solicitor wants. In particular, Jade Clark epitomises the very best of the clerking team at Keating.'
- 'Keating Chambers is an outstanding set. The clerks and other support staff are very responsive and helpful. The depth of counsel is excellent in terms of experienced and capable construction barristers.'
- 'Keating has a deep bench of barristers at all levels with strong arbitration and wider disputes experience in construction across multiple sectors. The clerks have recommended excellent barristers in this space over the years and work hard to accommodate demands on availability.'
- 'Very strong construction expertise and barristers who are flexible to counsel.'
- 'Keating Chambers is the 'go to' set for construction law - they literally write the book on it. Whatever level of call, whatever the issue, the advice is spot on.'