Career
Robert is an English-qualified lawyer based in Bangkok, advising across Thailand and Southeast Asia on international arbitration, insurance disputes, and complex cross-border litigation. He specialises in multi-jurisdictional disputes involving regulatory, legal, and cultural complexity, and works with global insurers and multinational companies operating across the region.
Robert advises on complex insurance and reinsurance claims across all major lines of business, including property, Directors’ and Officers’ liability, financial institutions, professional indemnity, cyber, product liability, and reinsurance treaty disputes. He has acted on some of Southeast Asia’s most significant claims, including major power, energy, natural disasters and infrastructure insurance disputes in Thailand and liability claims arising from product liability, environmental disasters, industrial accidents, infrastructure, and catastrophic loss events.
His international arbitration practice focuses on high-value, multi-party and cross-border disputes across sectors including construction, energy, real estate, and financial services. He has experience in arbitration under ICC, SIAC, LCIA, TAI and THAC rules, as well as proceedings before the Thai Office of Insurance Commission, and regularly advises on mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution.
Robert also sits as arbitrator in international disputes and serves as Deputy Chair of the ICC Thailand Commission on Arbitration and ADR.
Experience:
- Representing global insurers and reinsurers on USD multi-million subrogation claims arising from multiple explosions and fires at a Thai chemical factory that caused widespread property damage and business interruption losses.
- Representing global reinsurers on USD multi-million property and liability claims arising out of the collapse of a saddle dam at the XePian Xe Namnoy dam in Laos.
- Advising global insurers on coverage liability under a combined D&O and FIPI policy in relation to over 60 claims notified by a well-known bank in Thailand.
- Advising and acting as co-counsel in an ad-hoc arbitration for a Korean life insurer in a USD multi-million dispute arising from a Thai reinsurance program.
- Acting as counsel for a global energy firm in an LCIA arbitration against a leading freight forwarder on a dispute arising from customs clearance services conducted in Thailand.
- Acting as counsel for a leading listed Thai technology company in an SIAC arbitration regarding an IT software implementation dispute.
- Acting as counsel for a listed Thai fabricator in an ICC arbitration concerning a Singapore Project dispute.
- Acting as counsel for an US oil & gas company in an ICC arbitration against a leading Thai state enterprise arising from a gas price dispute.
Qualifications:
Solicitor of Senior Courts of England & Wales (March 2013)
Awards and Recognition:
- Ranked as a leading individual for Insurance in Thailand by Chambers Asia Pacific, 2022 – 2026.
- Ranked as a leading individual for Dispute Resolution: International Arbitration in Thailand by Chambers Asia Pacific 2025 – 2026.
- Ranked as a Leading Partner in Thailand for Insurance practice, Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2026.
- Ranked as a Next Generation Partner in Thailand for Dispute Resolution: International Arbitration, Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2019 – 2026.
- Ranked as a Next Generation Partner in Thailand for Insurance practice, Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2020 – 2025.
- Ranked as a Up and Coming lawyer in Thailand for Insurance practice, Chambers Asia Pacific, 2020 - 2021.
- Named in The A-List: Thailand's Top 100 Lawyers 2024, Asia Business Law Journal.
