Overview
Carmel specialises in international commercial arbitration, investment arbitration and cross-border litigation.
Carmel’s practice focuses on cross-border disputes across Asia-Pacific, India and the Middle East, particularly in the energy & resources, construction & infrastructure, telecommunications and transport sectors. She acts as counsel for clients in ad hoc and institutional arbitrations under the major rules and regularly advises clients on dispute risk mitigation. Carmel also serves as a tribunal secretary.
In addition to her arbitration work, Carmel has extensive experience acting in matters before Australian and foreign courts, including complex litigation and applications to enforce or set aside arbitral awards.
Carmel is a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration & ADR and ICC Australia Arbitration Steering Committee. She previously served as the ICC YAF Representative for South Asia (2019-2021).
Carmel is dual-qualified in Australia and England & Wales.
Work Highlights
Carmel’s experience includes acting for:
- A regional government in relation to a multi-billion-dollar investor-State claim arising out of the mining sector.
- The applicant investors in multiple proceedings to enforce high-value investor-State awards in Australia against the Kingdom of Spain.
- A cryptocurrency platform in a Singapore seated SIAC arbitration raising issues of Singapore and California law concerning the development of a cryptocurrency backed research platform.
- A Korean engineering & construction company in an ICC arbitration seated in New Delhi, subject to Indian law against an Indian state-owned entity arising from the design, construction and commissioning of a steel plant complex in India.
- The owners of one of the world’s largest LNG projects in three gas price reviews in Western Australia and related litigation before the Western Australian courts.
- An international joint venture in a US$46m ICC arbitration seated in Singapore, subject to English law arising from the termination of a production sharing contract by Timor-Leste.
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