About
Patrick specialises in all areas of dispute resolution with particular emphasis on commercial, banking, intellectual property and professional negligence disputes.
Patrick has conducted litigation and arbitration in Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Italy, France, Ukraine, the USA and in all the GCC states as well as in all the courts within the English jurisdiction.
Patrick leads the award-winning Middle East Disputes team which won the ‘Bahrain Dispute Resolution Law Firm of the Year” award at the Chambers Middle East Awards 2019, 2024 and 2025. He is also a lead Partner in the firm’s International Arbitration Group which won the ‘International Arbitration Team of the Year’ award at the Legal Business Awards 2018.
Additionally, Patrick leads the Middle East team which won the ‘Bahrain Law Firm of the Year’ award at The Oath Legal Awards in 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2024 and won the ‘UAE Law Firm of the Year’ award at The Oath Legal Awards in 2022 and ‘Qatar Law Firm of the Year’ at The Oath Legal Awards in 2023.
Patrick is one of the lead partners acting in the administration of Awal Bank B.S.C. which has involved over 75 different litigation and arbitration cases in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, The United Kingdom, the USA and the Cayman Islands
In addition to the awards referred to above, in recent years, the team were shortlisted for numerous awards, including ‘Middle East Litigation & Dispute Resolution Team of the Year’ at The Oath Middle East Legal Awards; ‘Middle East Dispute Resolution Team of the Year’ at the Legal Week Corporate Counsel Awards’; and ‘Litigation Team of the Year’ at the Legal Week Awards.
Patrick was shortlisted for the Dispute Resolution Lawyer of the Year award at the Legal 500 Middle East and North Africa Legal Awards 2023 and 2024 and for a Lifetime Contribution Award at the Lexis Nexis Middle East Legal Awards 2024.
In addition to acting as Counsel in Arbitrations Patrick also sits as an Arbitrator and in included in the Legal 500 Middle East Arbitration Powerlist 2022, 2023 and 2024.
Patrick is admitted to practice in England and Wales and was awarded a CIArb Diploma in International Arbitration in July 2018.
He became a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in September 2018.
Experience
- Lead partner on the Awal Bank Administration which involves over 75 claims in over 7 different jurisdictions.
