He has built a track record leading teams and arbitrating cases under the ICC, LCIA and UNCITRAL rules as well as at ICSID and in the English High Court. Maurice is described in Legal 500 as a “world-class litigator” with “particularly impressive” work in Africa.

Educated in both South Africa and England, he has worked across five continents and handled disputes in the mining, oil and gas, renewables, power, telecommunications, infrastructure and insurance sectors.

Maurice has also assisted clients with corporate internal investigations and World Bank corruption investigations.

His insurance coverage experience is predominantly related to engineering, energy, mining and construction policies frequently involving business interruption and delay in start-up issues.

Relevant Experience

• Presently representing Medco in ICC arbitration with the National Oil Company of Libya where the sums at stake exceed £1.5 billion.
• Representing an independent oil company in an ICC arbitration against Tanzania.
• Representing ZCCM in its multi-billion dollar UNCITRAL arbitration with Vedanta involving its investment in Konkola Copper Mines.
• Defending a £72m breach of contract claim involving damage to and decommisioning of a power station in the English Commercial Court.
• Defending and recovering indemnity costs for two former directors of a Cayman registered oil and gas production company in negligence proceedings in the English Commercial court.
• Representing the reinsurance market in a $600 million property damage and business interruption claim relating to the Samarco tailings dam collapse in Brazil.

• Representing an independent oil company in ICSID arbitration proceedings against The Gambia. ICSID cases ARB/14/6, ARB/14/7, ARB/17/38, ARB/17/39, ARB/17/40.
• Representing an Australian mining company in ICSID arbitration and successfully defending the Respondent’s attempt to overturn the award in ICSID annulment proceedings. ICSID case ARB/09/19
• Corporate internal corruption investigation for a telecommunications company.
• Contractual internal investigations for the minority shareholder in a multi billion-dollar mining business.
• Defending a Chinese state-owned road construction company in World Bank INT bribery and corruption investigations.
• LCIA arbitration concerning telecommunications network infrastructure disputes in Turkey.
• LCIA arbitration for the Ghanaian state-owned oil storage and transportation company concerning the construction and use of a tank farm.
• Working as one of two English qualified lawyers in the team representing Larry Silverstein in the insurance claims following the 9/11 terror attacks on the World Trade Centre in 2001.

Education
BA, University of KwaZulu-Natal, 1989