Petroleum Law and Risk Management

Hew Dundas has spent most of his working life dealing with the legal and insurance (and also financial and taxation) affairs of the international oil & gas industry, until recently as General Manager Legal at what is now the UK's largest independent oil & gas E&P company and, at the same time, being Group Insurance Manager and Company Secretary and sometime acting International Tax Planning Manager.

In his legal capacity, he has worked in or with more than 20 jurisdictions around the world and has advised governments or government entities in 8. From 1993-98 he was Vice-Chairman of the world upstream oil industry's premier legal committee, the E&P Forum Legal Committee, and was he was founding chairman of that Committee’s Insurance Sub-Committee in which capacity he represented the international oil industry in negotiations with EU officials in Brussels leading to the significant mitigation of the effect on the oil industry of certain EU Directives.

He has, since 1990, been a visiting lecturer in International Petroleum Law at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP) at the University of Dundee and has, more recently, lectured there on Dispute Resolution Law and Practice.

Immediately after leaving employment to go into practice on his own, he was invited to be sole arbitrator in an international dispute between companies from two different (non-UK) European countries where the seat of the arbitration was in Scotland and the substantive law was English.

He is founder and Chairman of the Oil & Gas Branch of the Arbitration Club, Co-Founder of the Maritime Branch and a member of the Commodities Branch. He is also a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Arbitrators, a member of the London Shipping Law Centre, the Average Adjusters Association, the Institute of Petroleum and the IBA UK Energy Lawyers Group.