Jeremy Farr is the lead practice area leader of the Energy, Infrastructure, and Resources practice area and is a partner in the firm's London office with a co-listing in Houston. As an offshore energy, maritime, and EPC lawyer, he draws upon almost four decades of practice to provide strategic and commercial insight to clients from contract negotiation, through project performance to close-out and dispute resolution. His experience includes upstream oil and gas projects and services, offshore wind, shipbuilding, super-yacht refit and construction, maritime issues, and major on-shore infrastructure engineering and construction disputes.
Jeremy has conducted, managed, or advised upon dispute resolution under both civil and common law in many jurisdictions in all regions of the world. He is responsible for a number of notable precedent decisions from English Courts on key contractual risk issues which are cited in text books. He is also a highly experienced arbitration practitioner under ICC, LCIA, LMAA, DIAC, and other Rules as well as ad hoc, and has a strong track record of successful mediations.
Notable industry sectors include EPC contracts for specialist offshore units such as drilling rigs, production platforms, cable-lay, pipe-lay and heavy lift vessels, floating production units, buoys and other offshore infrastructure, shipbuilding, and superyachts; subsea installation, drilling, and other services contracts, charters, operation, and maintenance contracts and other ancillary contracts for floating production units; supply-chain; joint operating agreements, joint ventures, production sharing agreements; design and engineering contracts and disputes in the energy, industrial and infrastructure sectors; real time strategic advice, assistance, and investigation into onshore and offshore incidents including blow outs, pollution, health and safety, loss of life and injury, breakdown and physical damage, energy, and marine insurance claims.
Jeremy is widely respected for his strategic insight, his ability to help clients to find commercial solutions to problems in accordance with their business objectives, and his dispute management.