FIDIC Adjudicator Details
International Client Manager
Richard Davies
Country of residence: United Arab Emirates
Citizenship: British
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Countries with experience
Other countries with experience:
Global regions
- East Europe
- West Europe
- Middle East
- Central Asia
Languages spoken
- English
Construction contract experience
- Construction Contract 2nd Ed (2017 Red Book)
- Construction Contract, 1st Ed (1999 Red Book)
- Design-Build-Operate Contract, 1st Ed 2008
- EPC/Turnkey Contract 2nd Ed (2017 Silver Book)
- EPC/Turnkey Contract, 1st Ed (1999 Silver Book)
- Plant & Design-Build Contract, 1st Ed (1999 Yellow Book)
- Short Form of Contract, 1st Ed 1999
- Conditions of Contract for Underground Works (2019 Emerald book)
Consultancy contract experience
- Not applicable - none of the above
Specialist contract experience
- Construction Subcontract, 1st. Ed. 2011
- Dredgers Contract, 1st Ed 2006
- Conditions of Contract for Underground Works, 2019
Other contract experience
- Party counsel advising and representing in relation to most forms of FIDIC contract
- Arbitration and other dispute resolution
Technical expertise
- Airports - air-side
- Airports - terminals and support
- Airports - other
- Building - commercial
- Building - industrial
- Civil Engineering - Site Investigation
- Civil Engineering - Tunnelling and piling
- Civil Engineering - other
- Construction law
- Defence
- Electrical and Mechanical Engineering
- Environmental issues
- Energy & Power - Fossil Fuel Systems
- Energy & Power - Nuclear Fuel Systems
- Energy & Power - Natural gas and LNG Facilities
- Infrastructure, Railways, Bridges
- Marine and ports
- Metro railway and stations
- Metals and Mining
- Road and highways - Planning, Layout and Design
- Road and highways - bridges and car parks
- Rail - Hardware and Software, Control and Monitoring Systems, Equipment and Drives
- Rail - High Speed rail
- Rail - Infrastructure Engineering and Maintenance
- Rail - Operation Control, Passenger Information Display and Entertainment
- Rail - Signalling and Communications
- Rail - Track Engineering and Construction
- Rail - other
- Telecommunications
- Waste Disposal - Solid Waste Management
- Waste Disposal - other
- Water - Sewerage
- Water - Sewage Treatment
- Water - Desalination
- Waste Water - Treatment and Pumping Plant
- Waster Water - treatment/distribution
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Claims and variations
- Extension of time
- Project scheduling
- Defects
- Flood damage
Short summary experiences
Since moving to the United Arab Emirates in 2008 I have been involved in multiple mandates relating to some of the region's most high-profile projects: from power stations to battery storage facilities, international airports to eVTOL vertiports, high speed railways to metro extensions, residential towers to fully integrated lifestyle communities - in most of the jurisdictions in the Middle East (including Jordan, Egypt, KSA, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, UAE) and the African continent (Kenya, Benin, Ethiopia, Nigeria) as well as further afield in Myanmar, the Philippines, United Kingdom and elsewhere.
In addition to advising on clients on procurement, contract drafting and negotiation (either those tendering for projects or inviting those tenders - and within the supply chain) I have also advised on many joint venture/consortium arrangements between consultants or contractors. I have also advised on project agreements.
The majority of my practice has been in the realm of dispute resolution. This has mainly been arbitration but, increasingly, contractual adjudication techniques (including FIDIC DABs and DAABs as well as bespoke arrangements) and mediation. I also have conducted litigation in the DIFC and ADGM Courts.
Position and experience
Acredited mediator:
Yes
Acredited arbitrator: No
Employment status:
Present position: Managing Partner, United Arab Emirates
Previous positions: Partner, Senior Associate, Associate
Acredited arbitrator: No
Employment status:
Present position: Managing Partner, United Arab Emirates
Previous positions: Partner, Senior Associate, Associate
Experience
- Specialist in construction and engineering law for 25 years
- Has handled dozens of arbitrations around the Middle East
- Asia
- Africa and Europe
- Advises clients on procurement
- contract negotiation across a range of sectors
Affiliations/Memberships
- Society of Construction Law (Gulf)
- Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Qualifications, jurisdiction and discipline
- Solicitor (England & Wales)
- Licensed in United Arab Emirates (DIFC / ADGM / Onshore)
- Barrister (non-practising) - Middle Temple
