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Jeremie Witt

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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 has previously been a partner with CMS in our 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) and holds Part II registration with the DIFC Courts in Dubai.

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). 

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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

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

Chambers, 2016

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

Legal 500, 2016

"A fantastic lawyer who always takes comments on board - he explores all angles of a problem and always gives clear advice."

Chambers, 2017

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

Chambers, 2016

"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.
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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). 
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Education

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

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05/11/2021
Bi­furc­a­tion in in­ter­na­tion­al ar­bit­ra­tion and the scope of the func­tus of­fi­cio...
A re­cent de­cision of the Su­preme Court of West­ern Aus­tralia has set aside an in­ter­im ar­bit­ral award on the basis that the three mem­ber tribunal was func­tus of­fi­cio. The func­tus of­fi­cio doc­trine in ar­bit­ra­tion...
Law-Now Dispute Resolution
25/10/2021
Fa­cing the fu­ture of in­ter­na­tion­al ar­bit­ra­tion
New pod­cast series ex­plor­ing the evolving chal­lenges and in­nov­a­tions of in­ter­na­tion­al ar­bit­ra­tion by the mem­bers of the CMS In­ter­na­tion­al Ar­bit­ra­tion Group
Publication
20/08/2021
Li­quid­ated dam­ages and par­tial pos­ses­sion
A re­cent TCC de­cision has en­forced a li­quid­ated dam­ages clause which did not al­low for a pro­por­tion­ate re­duc­tion in li­quid­ated dam­ages fol­low­ing par­tial pos­ses­sion of com­pleted sec­tions of a de­vel­op­ment...
Law-Now Real Estate
29/07/2021
When can es­top­pel de­feat re­li­ance on a con­trac­tu­al time bar?
In the re­cent de­cision of Val­mont In­teri­ors Pty Ltd v. Gior­gio Ar­mani Aus­tralia Pty Ltd (No. 2)[1], the New South Wales Court of Ap­peal con­sidered the cir­cum­stances in which an es­top­pel will op­er­ate to...
Law-Now
20/07/2021
NSW Pub­lic Health Or­der closes con­struc­tion sites in parts of NSW – im­plic­a­tions...
On 17 Ju­ly 2021 the NSW Gov­ern­ment an­nounced fur­ther re­stric­tions af­fect­ing parts of NSW in re­sponse to the on­go­ing COV­ID-19 out­break primar­ily af­fect­ing the Great­er Sydney area. Of par­tic­u­lar con­cern...
Law-Now
15/07/2021
West­ern Aus­tralia up­dates its se­cur­ity of pay­ment re­gime
On 25 June 2021, the Build­ing and Con­struc­tion In­dustry (Se­cur­ity of Pay­ment) Act 2021 (WA) (the “Act”) re­ceived Roy­al As­sent and the op­er­at­ive pro­vi­sions of the Act now await com­mence­ment by pro­clam­a­tion. ...
Law-Now
23/06/2021
Which pay­ment sched­ule is val­id when the Su­per­in­tend­ent and the Em­ploy­er’s...
In the re­cent de­cision of RHG Con­struc­tion Fit­out and Main­ten­ance Pty Ltd v. Kangaroo Point De­vel­op­ments MP Prop­erty Pty Ltd & Ors[1], the Queens­land Court of Ap­peal held that a pay­ment sched­ule is­sued...
Law-Now
11/06/2021
The 2021 ACI­CA Rules and the 2020 Aus­trali­an Ar­bit­ra­tion Re­port
On 1 April 2021 the 2021 ACI­CA Ar­bit­ra­tion Rules (2021 ACI­CA Rules) and Ex­ped­ited Ar­bit­ra­tion Rules (2021 ACI­CA Ex­ped­ited Rules) came in­to ef­fect; up­dat­ing the pre­vi­ous ACI­CA rules and bet­ter re­flect­ing...
Law-Now
07/06/2021
Does the pre­ven­tion prin­ciple ap­ply where the Em­ploy­er has an ab­so­lute...
The pre­ven­tion prin­ciple The pre­ven­tion prin­ciple is fre­quently ban­died about in the con­text of con­struc­tion dis­putes. Put simply, the pre­ven­tion prin­ciple has the ef­fect that a party which pre­vents an­oth­er...
Law-Now
06/05/2021
Queens­land courts con­firm that late ad­ju­dic­a­tion de­cisions are void
Sum­mary In its re­cent de­cision in Civil Con­tract­ors (Aust) Pty Ltd v. Galaxy De­vel­op­ments Pty Ltd & Ors; Jones v. Galaxy De­vel­op­ments Ltd & Ors [2021] QCA 10, the Queens­land Court of Ap­peal con­firmed...
Law-Now
15/04/2021
Law and reg­u­la­tion of con­sequen­tial dam­ages clauses in the en­ergy sec­tor...
1. Do the words “con­sequen­tial loss” have a giv­en mean­ing in law? Yes. Aus­trali­an law fol­lows the ap­proach taken by the Eng­lish courts to the as­sess­ment of dam­ages set out in the case of Had­ley...
Expert Guide Energy & Climate Change
12/03/2021
ICC re­port on the Ac­cur­acy of Fact Wit­ness Memory in In­ter­na­tion­al Ar­bit­ra­tion
In Novem­ber 2020, the ICC’s Task Force on Max­im­ising the Pro­bat­ive Value of Wit­ness Evid­ence (the “Task Force”) pub­lished a re­port on the Ac­cur­acy of Fact Wit­ness Memory in In­ter­na­tion­al Ar­bit­ra­tion...
Law-Now Dispute Resolution
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