Tim Martin, has extensive experience as an arbitrator, counsel, expert and strategic advisor in the resolution of energy, oil & gas, project infrastructure and construction disputes. He has been a sole arbitrator, party appointed arbitrator, institution appointed arbitrator and tribunal chair in institutional and ad hoc international and domestic arbitrations.
Tim has more than 40 years of experience as general counsel, country manager, finance director, commercial manager and economist, working in more than 50 countries on some of the largest energy projects in the world. He has wide-ranging experience in various legal systems including the common law, civil law, Shari’ah law and the communist legal system. His business sector experience includes: energy, oil & gas, refining, petrochemicals, mining, infrastructure, construction, international trade & investment, regulatory & administrative, corporate governance, and finance & banking.
Tim has been counsel in international boundary disputes arising from oil & gas concessions that straddled disputed international boundaries and in sovereignty disputes in domestic courts. He has managed litigation strategy for complex, multi-jurisdictional disputes in national courts in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia.
Tim established, organized and chaired the leading annual conference on Dispute Resolution in the International Oil & Gas Business for more than fifteen years, co-sponsored by the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN) and leading international arbitration institutions around the world. He is founding Chair of the Journal of World Energy Law & Business, the leading journal on international energy and the official journal of the AIPN, which is published by Oxford University Press. Tim has published and spoken extensively on dispute resolution and energy issues throughout the world.
Tim is a Fellow and Chartered Arbitrator of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators and a Member of the London Court of International Arbitration. He has been elected to the arbitrator panels of the ICDR, the ICC International Court of Arbitration, the SIAC, the Asian Institute of ADR, the Pacific International Arbitration Centre, the Bahrain Chamber for Dispute Resolution, the Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration and the Energy Arbitrators List.
John Gilbert, is a partner in Bracewell’s London office. He advises on the resolution of disputes in the energy sector through litigation, arbitration, expert determination and mediation. John has represented clients in a broad range of disputes related to oil and gas exploration and production, the construction and operation of pipelines and the downstream sector. John has particular experience of advising on disputes arising from joint operating agreements, including in relation to the requirements of operating committee approval, sole risk, pre-emption rights and invoicing/cash calls.
Peter Roberts, is admitted to practice as a solicitor in England and Wales (1991) and in Hong Kong (2000). Peter trained at Linklaters and has advised on oil and gas matters since 1994. He was previously in-house counsel with Exxon Corporation (1994-1997) and was the general counsel of Centrica Energy (2007-2010). Peter has been a partner in several major international law firms and has previously lived and worked in Asia for almost ten years.
He is the emeritus editor of the Journal of World Energy Law and Business, the journal of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN), which he edited from 2008 to 2021. Before that, he was the editor of the International Energy Law Review and a former chairman of the oil and gas law committee of the International Bar Association.
Peter is a Visiting Professor at the faculty of law at Universidad Austral in Buenos Aires. He has also lectured on oil and gas matters at the universities of Dundee, Houston, Oxford, Qatar, Queen Mary (London), Ras Al Khaimah and Tulane.
He has also written several leading industry textbooks.