Alexander is a Partner in the Browne Jacobson construction and engineering team. He has extensive experience of advising on international arbitrations, specialising in complex technical disputes in the construction, infrastructure and energy sectors.

Alexander’s experience includes residential, mixed-use and hospitality developments (including matters pertaining to complex façade engineering, deep services, and MEP issues) and large scale infrastructure and energy projects (including in respect of airports, refinery projects, oil pipelines, industrial manufacturing facilities, desalination plants, mining and mineral, biomass projects and sewage treatment plants). He has advised on matters across Europe, the GCC, North Africa, Central Asia and North America.

Current role and responsibilities

• Practice areas: Construction, infrastructure and engineering disputes; international arbitration; project counsel; front-end contract and risk review; EPC, FIDIC and bespoke contract advice; claims strategy and dispute avoidance.

• Client types: Employers, contractors, quasi-governmental organisations, subcontractors, suppliers and consultants operating across the construction and engineering supply chain.

• Typical matters: Technically complex, high-value projects including transport infrastructure, mixed-use developments, refineries, oil and gas assets, power plants, chemical process facilities and utilities.

• Career narrative: Alexander’s practice has developed through specialist construction and international arbitration roles in the UAE, UK and wider international markets, giving him a practical, project-facing approach to strategic legal advice.

Recognition

Alexander has third-party recognition from leading legal directories and market sources for construction disputes, international arbitration and construction litigation in the UAE and wider international market.

Chambers Global ranks Alexander in Construction: Dispute Resolution in the United Arab Emirates as an Up and Coming individual, noting that he is gaining increasing prominence in construction disputes and is active for contractors and subcontractors on retail, commercial and residential construction projects. Chambers commentary also describes him as a “proper construction-focused expert”, and “reliable and hard-working”.

Lexology Index recognises Alexander as an Arbitration Future Leader in the Arbitration Future Leaders – Partners category.

Doyle’s Guide lists Alexander as a Recommended Lawyer in its Leading Construction Litigation Lawyers – United Arab Emirates, 2024 ranking, which identifies contentious construction, projects and infrastructure lawyers recognised by peers and clients in the UAE market.

Credentials

• Solicitor, England and Wales, admitted 2012. Alexander has 14 years’ post-qualification experience and has been a Partner since January 2023.
• MA Law, University of Cambridge, 2008.
• LPC, College of Law, Moorgate, 2009.