Übersicht
Ali Auda is a senior associate in the Construction & Engineering team and International Arbitration group of the London office. He has recently completed a secondment to the Dubai office. He has experience of working with clients on projects globally, particularly in the energy & infrastructure sectors, focusing on the resolution of construction disputes in international arbitration.
Ali is a native Arabic speaker and has an interest in matters connected with the Middle East. He joined Mayer Brown in 2017 from a leading US firm where he spent part of his training on secondment to Abu Dhabi focusing on energy, infrastructure, project and asset finance projects.
Schwerpunkte
Sprachkenntnisse
- Arabisch
- Englisch
Erfahrung
Construction (including arbitration matters)
- Advising on a number of ICC arbitrations in connection with the design and construction of a major maritime project in Central America.
- Advising on a dispute arising out of a series of contracts for the Engineering Procurement and Construction of facilities to support our clients oil field expansion scheme in Iraq.
- Advising our client on a sub-contract dispute in relation to consultancy services for the management of a Museum and Cultural project in Kuwait.
- Advising an EPC Turnkey Contractor in the pre-arbitration stage under the UNCITRAL Rules in a dispute related to a Joint Venture Agreement involving a Korean contractor for the construction of a combined cycle power plant in Saudi Arabia.
- Advising a subcontractor in relation to a dispute arising out of the construction of a number of substations in Tanzania.
- Advising a major subsea pipelay contractor in relation to a dispute arising out of the construction and installation of a gas development project in the Bay of Bengal.
- Assisted in advising a European owner / operator in respect of the design and construction of a nuclear power plant and several major arbitrations in respect thereof.*
Energy, Infrastructure, Project and Asset Finance
- Advised the arranging banks and the ECAs in connection with the US$6.4 billion project financing (including multiple ECA covered tranches) of the large-scale LIWA Plastics petrochemical project Oman owned by Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company.*
- Advised International Finance Corporation (IFC), Asian Development Bank (ADB) and a syndicate of local banks on the project financing of a 4.5 MTPA LNG facility at Port Qasim, near Karachi, Pakistan.*
- Assisted in advising Eleclink, the project company in connection with the proposed 1000 MW DC power interconnector between the UK and France, which will run through the Channel Tunnel.*
- Assisted in advising the sponsors on the project financing of the Nacala railway and port project in Mozambique and Malawi.*
*Experience prior to joining Mayer Brown International LLP
Veröffentlichungen
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14. Februar2023
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October 2022
Aktuelles
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24. Juni2019
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14. Januar2018
Ausbildung
University of Law, LLM in International Legal Practice
University College London (University of London), LLM in International Commercial Law
London School of Economics and Political Science, LLB
Zulassung
- England und Wales
- New York
- Listed as a key lawyer for International Arbitration - Legal 500 2023.
- Awarded the “Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Prize for International Arbitration” on the LLM programme at University College London.