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Jeremie Witt

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Jeremie is a partner in the Energy, Projects and Construction Team and is based in Australia. He is also a Registered Foreign Lawyer in Hong Kong. He has previously been a partner with CMS in the Dubai and our Singapore offices and has extensive experience acting on complex and distressed projects across the MENA and APAC regions. Jeremie is admitted in Australia, England and Wales (as a solicitor-advocate).

Jeremie advises on contentious and non-contentious construction, energy and infrastructure matters and has extensive experience with major standard forms of contract. Jeremie regularly advises on all types of dispute resolution, specialising in international arbitration (ad hoc & institutional including ICC, LCIA, SCC, SIAC, DIAC and ADCCAC), and also sits as an arbitrator on construction and energy disputes.

Awards & Recognitions

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"Jeremie is a very dynamic lawyer with a firm grasp of construction matters in general."

Lexology Index – Construction (2024)
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"A fantastic lawyer who always takes comments on board - he explores all angles of a problem and always gives clear advice."

Chambers, 2017
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"is incredibly hard-working, very diligent and really cares about getting the right result for the client."

Chambers, 2016
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"provides high quality and very practical solutions to both non-contentious and contentious problems."

Legal 500, 2016

Relevant experience

Relevant experience includes acting for:

An oil major in an LCIA arbitration (English law, London seat) where over USD 300m is claimed arising out of an oil drilling contract in Iraq.
An employer on multiple related disputes subject to ICC arbitration arising out of EPC contracts (English law, London and Paris seats) relating to delays, disruption and defective works.
An EPC contractor in relation to disputes subject to ICC arbitration arising out of the construction of a power plant (English law, Singapore seat).
An oil major in an SCC arbitration (English law, Stockholm seat) with a security contractor arising out of a project in Iraq.
A major FMCG group in relation to project structure and negotiating contracts for the construction of an AED1.2bn+ fully automated warehouse in the MENA region on an EPC basis.
Acting in disputes for a consultant on the Doha Metro project.
A specialist contractor in relation to multiple disputes arising out of the refurbishment of a luxury hotel in the GCC subject to DIAC arbitration.
Contractors and consultants on contracts for the Dubai Expo 2020 and Qatar 2022 World Cup projects.
A specialist tunnelling contractor on a major rail project.
An EPC contractor on a wind farm project in Kenya.

Memberships & Roles

Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb).
Member of the Associate of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN).
Member of the Society of Construction Law (UK and Australian branches).

Education

2018 - LLM, University of Melbourne
2005 - Law, LLB(Hons), Flinders University of South Australia

Practice Areas

Dispute Resolution Advocacy Construction & Engineering Disputes

sectors

Energy Disputes Construction & Engineering Energy & Climate Change Mining and Minerals

Insights by Jeremie

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Legal Update United Kingdom

The SIAC Annual Report 2023 – key takeaways in year of growth and record caseload

29 May 2024 6 min read

Publication United Kingdom

Our Mining & Mineral Practice

26 Jun 2023 2 min read

Legal Update United Kingdom

Bifurcation in international arbitration and the scope of the functus officio principle

05 Nov 2021 8 min read

Video United Kingdom

Facing the future of international arbitration

25 Oct 2021 2 min read