John is a Chartered Arbitrator and a construction and infrastructure lawyer of 45 years’ standing. He now sits as an Arbitrator in international construction, infrastructure and real estate matters under institutional rules and on an ad hoc basis, both as Chair and as party appointed arbitrator. He also has extensive experience as acting as a Dispute Board Member in projects in Central and Eastern Europe, Africa, Central America and the Far East.

John has long been identified as a leading construction lawyer in Chambers Directory and the Legal 500 and is named as one of the world’s leading construction lawyers and one of the world’s Thought Leaders in Construction in recent editions of the International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers. He is a past Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and past Co-Chair of the International Construction Projects committee of the International Bar Association.