Dan is a partner in the Energy & Natural Resources Group. He specializes in disputes and advisory matters within the fields of commodities and international trade (hard rock minerals, metals, energy, oil and gas), mining (exploration, production and regulatory), shipbuilding and offshore (including rig and FPSO-related matters under EPIC contracts). Dan regularly acts for miners, oil and gas companies and commodity traders, and has conducted arbitrations under, amongst others, SIAC, ICC, LCIA, LMAA and GAFTA rules, and ad hoc arbitrations under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules. He has also represented clients at numerous mediations, including complex multi-party disputes, and has guided several clients through the expert determination process.
Having been based in Singapore since 2010, Dan worked with a market-leading international arbitration practice before spending three years as senior in-house counsel with a mining major from 2012, where he supported the company’s iron ore, coal, copper and uranium marketing businesses and assisted with group-wide projects and disputes. Dan has been actively involved in the development and refinement of a number of industry-standard commodity contracts, and the implementation of market-based pricing mechanisms within developing markets such as iron ore. He regularly advises on multi-commodity marketing standardisation projects.
Since returning to private practice in 2015, Dan has assisted clients with a broad array of both disputes and non-contentious matters across industries. He regularly advises on all aspects of the marketing, sale and supply chain of commodities, including the drafting and negotiation of offtake agreements and bespoke high value sale and purchase contracts, management of force majeure incidents and other supply chain disruption, warehousing disputes, counterparty non-performance, risk analysis and management, and pricing disputes.
Dan is a regular speaker at industry conferences relating to commodities and international trade, deep sea mining, and shipping. In 2016 he was recognised by Singapore Business Review as one of Singapore's most influential lawyers aged 40 and under.
