Flavia Pizzino

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Flavia is a dispute resolution lawyer who advises commercial clients on a broad range of contentious issues. She advises insurers and reinsurers on international energy and marine insurance matters, as well as advising international energy contractors on contractual disputes arising from onshore and offshore energy projects, with a particular focus on construction disputes.

She regularly acts on complex issues and disputes in the upstream, downstream, renewables and marine sectors, including liability and subrogated recoveries, as well as advising on wordings. In addition to traditional oil and gas, her experience includes onshore and offshore wind (including floating offshore wind), solar, battery storage, hydro and mining.

Flavia has extensive dispute resolution experience including litigation, mediation and negotiation under English law and foreign law. She also has specialist expertise in international arbitration, regularly conducting arbitral proceedings both ad hoc and under a variety of institutional rules, including ICC, LCIA, ARIAS and LMAA.

She also has a deep understanding of the commercial aspects of the claims handling process, having spent time working as a claims adjuster at a leading London market insurer handling energy and construction claims.

Flavia is bilingual, speaking Italian and English.

Experience

• Advising on physical damage and business interruption at a solar farm arising from a significant weather event in the UAE, including advising on jurisdictional issues and declaratory relief.
• Advising on physical damage and delay in start-up at a BESS facility in the UK.
• Advising in relation to business interuption claim relating to the allocation of carbon credits under the EU Emissions Trading System.
• Advising contractors on the merits of variation requests, entitlements and disputes under EPC contracts.
• Acting for insurers in ARIAS arbitration proceedings relating to BI claims brought by three onshore windfarms further to joint failures in an underground 38kV cable in Ireland.
• Advising on corrosion damage to a waste heat boiler at an ammonia plant in Pakistan.
• Advising on BI in relation to curtailment of power transmission following fibre optic and power core failures of an export cable at an offshore windfarm off the coast of Wales.
• Advising on CBI and subrogation in relation to an explosion at a petrochemical plant in Spain.
• Representing insurers in the USD 1.3 billion Commercial Court case regarding coverage for the YME Platform North Sea loss being defended on various coverage grounds.
• Acting for international EPC contractor in ICC and LCIA arbitrations arising from commercial disputes on projects for the development of a gas booster station and the design, engineering and construction of an oil and gas early production facility and sulphur granulation plant in the Middle East, involving complex technical issues as well as delay/ disruption claims.