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Maurice is co-chair of the Global Arbitration Group and a partner in the London team. He has built a track record leading teams and winning cases under the ICC, LCIA, and UNCITRAL rules as well as at ICSID and in the English High Court. Maurice is described in Legal 500 as "a true specialist" and “a first rate litigator”.
Educated in both South Africa and England he has particular experience in the mining, oil and gas, power, telecommunications, infrastructure and insurance sectors, where he has worked for private and state parties on high value and complex international disputes across five continents. Maurice has also assisted clients with corporate internal investigations and World Bank corruption investigations.
His extensive insurance experience is predominantly in engineering, energy, mining and construction sectors. He has particular expertise in large scale property and construction disputes involving business interruption and delay in start-up issues, primarily in the mining and power sectors for insurers and reinsurers.
Before joining Clyde & Co in 2011 he headed the International Arbitration team at Barlow Lyde & Gilbert LLP having joined that firm from Allen & Overy in 2007.
Experience
- Presently representing ZCCM in an ongoing UNCITRAL arbitration involving its investment in Konkola Copper Mines
- Advising in an ongoing ICC arbitration for an oil company against Tanzania
- Advising in ongoing US$1bn ICC proceedings involving a long term iron ore production contract
- Recent successes include:
- defending a £72m breach of contract claim in the English Commercial Court
- settling a US$600m claim relating to a tailings dam collapse in Latin America
- settling an ICSID claim and recovering Hydrocarbins Exploration Block A4
- defeating annulment proceedings at ICSID
- Maurice's experience also includes:
- six successful ICSID cases (ARB/09/19, ARB/14/6, ARB/14/7, ARB/17/38, ARB/17/39, ARB/17/40)
- corporate internal investigation for a telecommunications company, investigations into joint venture mining companies for minority shareholders and defending a Chinese state owned infrastructure company in World Bank INT bribery and corruption invetigations
- LCIA arbitration concerning telecommunications infrastructure disputes in Turkey
- LCIA arbitration for the Ghanaian state owned oil storage and transportation company concerning the construction and use of a tank farm
- LCIA arbitration and ICSID enforcement issues for the central bank of a European state
