Nick heads Freshfields’ international arbitration group in Asia and is an experienced international arbitration counsel and advocate.

Nick represents clients in commercial and construction disputes across a variety of industries, under all major arbitral rules, including ICSID, ICC, SIAC, UNCITRAL, HKIAC, AIAC, JCAA, LCIA, AAA and NAI, and under all major systems of law.

He leads one of the most active treaty arbitration practices in Asia, representing both investors and states, in high-profile, politically complex cases around Asia and the world. Nick accepts occasional appointments as arbitrator.

Nick advises clients on the management of high-stakes litigation in jurisdictions around the Indo-Pacific.

Band 1-ranked by all major legal directories, Nick is recognised as a “Global Elite Thought Leader” by Lexology Index and one of the “45 Under 45” leading arbitration practitioners globally by GAR.

He is a co-author of the second edition of the Oxford University Press treatise on the SIAC Arbitration Rules.

A former law clerk to the Chief Justice of Australia, Nick was educated at the University of Queensland, where he graduated at the top of his class in law and Japanese, and Harvard Law School, where he was a Frank Knox Memorial Fellow.

Nick serves as the Firm’s Singapore managing partner. He speaks English and Japanese.