Victoria Tyson

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Victoria Tyson is an award-winning contentious construction lawyer with over 25 years’ experience in large, complex international construction and engineering disputes. She has particular expertise in the FIDIC forms of construction contract.

Victoria represents employers (including governments and ministries), international contractors, and consultants. She has had exposure to many high-profile and often politically sensitive international construction and engineering projects. She has been involved in a number of important FIDIC cases including Obrascon Huarte Lain SA v Her Majesty’s Attorney General for Gibraltar [2014] EWHC 1028 (TCC) and [2015] EWCA Civ 712.

Her primary focus is international arbitration (including ICC, LCIA, SIAC, HKIAC and UNCITRAL) but she also acts for clients involved in other forms of dispute resolution including dispute boards and mediation.

Victoria is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) and is in the Executive Group of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation (DRBF) UK.

She is co-author of FIDIC 2017: A Practical Legal Guide.