Reshma Nair
Reshma has over a decade of experience specialising in shareholder disputes and disputes in the energy sector. She also manages ESG and climate disputes as they arise in Asia.
Reshma's work focuses on advising clients on their active disputes or on dispute avoidance strategies. She has particular experience in the energy sector and the energy transition, both in commercial and treaty arbitration. Clients include States, State-owned entities and MNCs.
Experience & capabilities
Selected matters
- a global energy major against a Southeast Asian State and its ministries in relation to certain measures relating to end of life and decommissioning obligations under the concession agreement and claims under bilateral investment treaties; the claims were valued at over USD 2 billion
- a project company on disputes arising from the construction of Vietnam's largest refinery and petrochemical project involving claims in excess of USD 2 billion, including two SIAC arbitrations, emergency arbitration proceedings, and related court proceedings
- an MNC contractor in a TAI arbitration against a Southeast Asian State agency on its legacy investment, delays, risk and exit in relation to a nuclear project. The claims are valued at over USD 600 million
- a Southeast Asian SOE in the enforcement of its USD 900 million arbitration award, including challenges of fraud and breach of natural justice in various jurisdictions including Singapore, Indonesia and the BVI
- a State against an MNC investor in an ISDS arbitration concerning the renewal of concessions and licenses to distribute natural gas
- an investment fund against its minority partner on deadlocks over the progress of large offshore wind projects in Taiwan; construction cost alone was valued at USD 8 billion
- an investor on managing hostile local partners on a long term carbon credits marketing agreement from a large forest sequestration project in Indonesia
- multiple independent power producers in multiple ICC arbitrations against a South Asian State over disputes under power purchase agreements and government guarantees (including issues of sovereign default)
- an ASX listed oil major on its rights under public international law against activists targeting its offshore oil and gas platforms in Mexico
- a global energy major against a Southeast Asian State on its ESG-compliance, environmental obligations and engagement options in the process of decommissioning assets in Southeast Asia and end-of-life abandonment under a concession agreement; potential liability for environmental damage was valued at over USD 300 million
Sectors
Background
Reshma is admitted to practice law in Singapore and holds a Masters in International Energy from Sciences Po, Paris.
Reshma also teaches. She is the course convener for comparative and civil laws for the bar exam in Singapore; she is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore and teaches the Advanced Practicum in International Arbitration course.
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