Paul Reed KC

Practice Areas

Practice overview

Paul Reed KC is a leading international commercial practitioner specialising in construction, engineering disputes, professional liability, property damage and insurance. He is regularly instructed in substantial, technical and complex civil, commercial, construction, insurance and professional negligence disputes. As well as being a popular and experienced advocate in court and in arbitration, he is also highly regarded for adjudication and advisory work.

Paul has an extensive domestic and international practice, working regularly in the Middle East, the Caribbean and the Asia Pacific region as well as other areas. He is known as an approachable and client-focused silk and a team player who gives clear and consistent advice.

Paul has particular expertise in large infrastructure projects (including nuclear), ports, shipbuilding, power plants, airports, commercial buildings, roads, rail, process and other plants, energy and natural resources.

He is also an occasional postgraduate tutor and lecturer in construction law, arbitration and insurance and a highly experienced mediator, adjudicator and arbitrator and the author of the leading text on Construction All Risks Insurance (Sweet & Maxwell) and Construction Professional Indemnity Insurance (Sweet & Maxwell), with contributions from the Construction Team. He has been shortlisted as Construction Silk of the Year in the Legal 500 Awards.

Paul has experience of other legal systems including in the Pacific regions (including South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand), South America and Canada and the Middle East, including Egypt, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Oman.

Professional Memberships

-Technology & Construction Bar Association

-Society of Construction Law

-Commercial Bar Association

-Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

-Insurance Assessor – Centre for Justice

-Dubai International Financial Court

-London Commercial Law & Commercial Bar Association

-Professional Negligence Bar Association

-British Insurance Law Association

-London Court of International Arbitration

Publications

Paul Reed KC is the author of the leading text on the subject, Construction All Risks Insurance (Sweet & Maxwell), with contributions from the Construction Team. The CAR book is recognised internationally as the leading practitioners’ text on the subject and has found use in many other jurisdictions, particularly in Pacific rim countries.

Paul Reed KC has also written Construction Professional Indemnity Insurance (Sweet & Maxwell), the leading text on liability insurance for professionals with contributions from the Construction Team.

Editorial Board and contributor for Insurance Broking Practice and the Law, edited by CMS Cameron McKenna, Informa looseleaf.

Contributor to ‘Cases that Changed our lives’ published by Lexis Nexis.

Experience

International

He is recommended as a leading silk in Chambers Global Awards and he is noted in the legal directories as a leading individual silk international arbitration. He has written two leading insurance texts: Construction All Risks Insurance and Construction Professional Indemnity Insurance and he is highly respected with a formidable international reputation for advising and representing construction, insurance and reinsurance disputes.

He is experienced in advising and representing individuals, companies and domestic and foreign insurance companies in England and overseas in ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, EDF, LMAA and other arbitral rules and has been appointed as an arbitrator and adjudicator in a number of jurisdictions.

Recently Paul has advised and represented employers in construction engineering, insurance and commodities disputes in the UAE and in respect of oil and gas infrastructure and process plant and disputes in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Nigeria South America, Korea, Australia and New Zealand and he continues to advise and represent insurers and policyholders in insurance disputes in jurisdictions throughout the world.

In the Caribbean Paul has acted as counsel in a number of insurance arbitrations and for Insurers in Cayman Islands including the Insurance industry in the Court of Appeal and for government bodies.