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Passionate about Offshore Wind and Renewables and proud to seek the best for the industry.Proactive, multilingual special contracts consultant with a hands‐on approach. An experienced lawyer with substantial operational experience running projects of strategic and economic importance - over 30 years contracts and commercial experience I've been working for the past 17 years in the renewable energies, offshore wind, marine, environmental, oil and gas, construction and civil engineering sectors. I specialise in winning, keeping and constantly improving commercial contracts and projects. I focus on market intelligence, business development, bid preparation, risk identification and mitigation, agreement optimisation, relational understanding, value maximisation, safety, operational logistics, Interface logic and improvement, PM and sign off identifying strategic commercial opportunities. Values of individual contracts vary between € 25,000 and more than € 700million. Specialties: Negotiating and managing contracts that work on the ground ; I maintain an uncompromising attitude towards total client satisfaction and the practicalities and realities of the commercial world are important to me. Client and partnership relations, Commercial negotiation, Legal and contract negotiation, Total contract management, Claims avoidance, Contract stress testing, Mergers and acquisition, Claims management, Dispute resolution, Arbitration, International law, government and third party liaison, Pedagogy and knowledge transfer. Mega project individual contracts: up to € 700 millionLead Contracts Management: up to € 3 billion - (500 contracts)Working on both fixed bottom and floating wind farm developments I manage (and maintain and improve upon) the agreements for manufacture, fabrication, transport, Installation and commissioning of monopile foundations (and TPs) (MP/Jacket/GBF/Floating), IA and export cables, WTG, OSS, grid connection and civilsConstantly learning, I've previously been responsible for the legal and the commercial affairs of teams of over 500 professional staff on both procurement and contracting sides. I have a particularly strong knowledge of international law and working in EN/FR/NL/DE/DK/EMEA multicultural environments working with framework agreements, NDAs, consultancy agreements, EPCM, EPCI, Design & Construct, DCM, FIDIC, JCT, NEC, BOOT, BIMCO, UAV(+GC) and Government form contracts

Listed skills include Leadership, Litigation, Contract Management, Construction Management, and 39 others.

• Senior Commercial Contract Specialist

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  2009 - Present

  Degree qualified bilingual Lawyer and Commercial Contracts Adviser / Manager with extensive experience in all aspects of the offshore construction industry. Contract, Commercial & Financial management, in particular and most recently in the Energy and Renewables sector. With 35 years’ international experience in all aspects of project, contracts, financial & commercial management in construction and on infrastructure projects The past 16 years have primarily involved working in the Oil & Gas… Show more Degree qualified bilingual Lawyer and Commercial Contracts Adviser / Manager with extensive experience in all aspects of the offshore construction industry. Contract, Commercial & Financial management, in particular and most recently in the Energy and Renewables sector. With 35 years’ international experience in all aspects of project, contracts, financial & commercial management in construction and on infrastructure projects The past 16 years have primarily involved working in the Oil & Gas, Marine and Renewable Energy sectors, working within project teams to deliver the best contractual and financial outcomes. Great interpersonal skills, flexibility and proven results have enabled continued client relationships.Having now participated in the successful completion of 17 OWF projects worldwide clients in offshore wind projects include major developers and owner operators from 8 European countries, designers, marine installation contractors, asset manufacturer/fabricators, WTG manufacturers and grid connectors / operators. Amongst these the largest OWF construction project in the world and the largest budgeted OWF project in the world at the time. Show less