Sean Hardy

Practice Areas

Sean advises on energy, infrastructure and construction projects, with a focus on supporting project delivery and resolving disputes by international arbitration. He is ranked as a Next Generation Partner (Legal 500 Asia Pacific Guide) and an Up and Coming Partner (Chambers Asia Pacific Guide) and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Sean specialises in advising on the resolution of disputes in the energy, infrastructure and construction sectors. He has extensive experience of acting as counsel in arbitration proceedings under many of the leading institutional rules, including the SIAC, ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL (ad hoc), HKIAC, AIAC and BANI rules, and of resolving disputes by litigation, adjudication and mediation.

Sean also supports clients in managing their risks during project delivery. This includes preparing construction contracts and associated project documentation, and advising on tenders, joint ventures, interim entitlements and claims under insurance or security. He also has significant experience of advising insurers and construction industry insureds on professional indemnity matters.

Sean has been based in Singapore since 2013 and has supported clients and advised on the resolution of disputes on major projects across the Asia Pacific region. Those projects have included production wells, pipelines, jack-up rigs, FPSOs, LNG terminals, refineries and petrochemical plants, power plants (including coal-fired, combined-cycle, solar and geothermal), water treatment plants, metro tunnels and stations, railways, roads, airports, ports, sports stadia and building projects.

Sean has also benefitted from secondments to contractor and insurer clients in Singapore and the UK, and is commercially minded as a result. He helps clients to save time and cost by avoiding formal disputes if possible and by resolving disputes that do arise efficiently.