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Paul Taylor
Partner, Regional Head of Arbitration
Biography
Paul is an international disputes and arbitration lawyer, who has focussed on the construction sector for most of his 30 year career since qualifying in the UK. He has lived and worked in the Middle East for 20 years, and before that was based in Hong Kong SAR, and UK originally.
Paul has vast experience in resolving all types of claims and disputes through litigation, arbitration, mediation, disputes boards, adjudication and mediation. His has worked on matters in over 25 countries.
Paul has sat as an arbitrator on several occasions and now heads the Firm’s regional arbitration practice, overseeing a wide range of arbitral disputes, and appearing before Tribunals under all the main arbitral rules including DIAC, ADCCAC, DIFC, ADGM, LCIA, ICC, SIAC, SCCA, QICCA, and UNCITRAL.
Prior to joining Al Tamimi, Paul was Managing Partner of a global firm’s Dubai office and regional head of their arbitration and construction team.
Recent Experience
- Advising and acting for engineering contractor on disputes arising out of construction a mass transport system for a global event in the Middle East.
- Advising and acting for the owner/Employer on a leisure and hotel development in the UAE.
- Advising and acting for a global construction company in various arbitrations on multi-tower projects across the GCC.
- Representing a major subcontractor in DAB in disputes arising out of construction of the systems, stations, trains and signaling for a GCC a metro system.
- Advising and acting for a chemical production company in KSA in respect of disputes arising out of pipeline engineering and fabrication.
- Acting as arbitrator on various disputes under DIAC, ICC and LCIA rules in the GCC.
- Advising and acting for a global IT logistics company in disputes related to director’s liability and shareholder rights in relation to a free zone entity in UAE.
Language(s)
English
Education
- 1992 – Trainee Solicitor, United Kingdom
- 1991 – Law Society Solicitor’s Final Exams, York College of Law
- 1990 – LL.B (Hons), University of Hull
- 1987 – Ripon Grammar School, United Kingdom
Admission
- 2008 – Chartered Institute of Arbitrators – Associate (ACIArb)
- 2005 – Dubai Legal Affairs Department (Legal Consultant)
- 1994 – Solicitor of Supreme Court, England & Wales
Practice(s)
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