Alexander Nissen QC
Barrister, Keating Chambers
Alexander Nissen QC of Keating Chambers specialises in advocacy and advisory work, adjudication, arbitration, litigation and the mediation of construction, engineering, energy and professional negligence disputes. His practice covers a wide variety of cases ranging from client/developer claims, PFI disputes, and adjudication enforcement to professional negligence cases (architects, surveyors, valuers, solicitors and civil, structural and geotechnical engineers). He deals with both contractors’ and sub-contractors’ claims and defects disputes.
Alexander’s work also covers rail projects, disputes relating to bonds (both domestic and international), power stations and oil and gas projects. Earlier this year Alexander successfully represented Grove Developments in one of the most talked about construction cases of 2018, overturning previous cases related to the issue of payment notices and adjudication.
Alexander is a Chartered Arbitrator, an accredited adjudicator and mediator. His arbitration work covers both domestic and international disputes. He has been appointed both through party selection and by the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris. He was appointed as a Recorder in 2007 and as a Deputy High Court Judge in 2013, now authorized to sit in the TCC.