Gerard Moore

Gerard leads the Dubai office's International Arbitration and Construction & Engineering practices.  He is recognised as "an excellent litigator" who provides clients with a "wealth of experience" in the Middle East and a "detailed knowledge of arbitration practice". 

He has significant experience in "bet-the-farm" disputes, helping clients navigate their most complex and high-stakes legal challenges.  Recently, in a classic "David v Goliath" battle, Gerard helped a family-run contracting business win a multi-million dollar ICC arbitration against a large, publicly-listed Middle East conglomerate. 

Clients deeply value his technical ability and steady composure during times of crisis.  For one client, he recently secured orders to prevent the liquidation of performance bonds worth hundreds of millions of dollars, protecting his clients from an existential threat to their business.

Select Experience

Arbitration

• Acting for a national oil company in a US $2bn LCIA arbitration relating to an oil and gas project in Kuwait.
• Acting for a main contractor in US $60m ICC arbitration proceedings against a major developer in relation to a mixed use development project in Kuwait.
• Acting for a contractor on multi-billion dirham upstream and downstream arbitration proceedings in relation to a large infrastructure project in the UAE.
• Acting for joint venture EPC contractor in ICC arbitration relating to integrated power and water plant in Oman.
• Acting for the owner of a glass fiber manufacturing facility in Saudi Arabia in a US $100 million ICC arbitration.
• Acting for an international joint venture in SAR 90m DIAC proceedings relating to the design of two landmark hospital projects in Riyadh and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

• "Gerard Moore is an outstanding junior partner. Fantastic legal knowledge and experience, tactically and strategically astute and clients love his commitment to their cases." Legal 500 EMEA
• "Mayer Brown has huge strength in its international arbitration team in Dubai. Great local expertise and knowledge as well as access to Mayer Brown's international resources and construction team, particularly in Singapore, London and Paris. The combination of international reach and local knowledge/expertise is exceptional." Legal 500 EMEA
• "In Gerard Moore, the Mayer Brown team has recruited an excellent litigator who brings from his previous firm a wealth of experience in the region and detailed knowledge of arbitration practice." Legal 500 EMEA

• Monash University, LLB (Hons)
• College of Law, Melbourne, Australia, Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice

• High Court of Australia
• Supreme Court of Victoria