Omar Haddad

Omar Haddad is a managing director in the arbitration practice in New York. He leads the firm’s work on infrastructure and energy disputes in the Americas and the Middle East, and has been appointed as quantum expert in more than thirty ICC, ICSID and UNCITRAL proceedings, acting for both claimants and respondent states.

His work spans toll roads, ports, power generation, liquefied natural gas and telecoms networks. He is known for his analysis of concession economics and project finance structures, and for lost-profits models that reflect how lenders and investors actually priced the risks of a project when it was built. He also advises on price review disputes under long-term supply contracts.

Before joining Pemberton & Co. he spent eight years as a project finance adviser at a multilateral development bank, structuring infrastructure investments in emerging markets, and then joined the disputes group of an economics consultancy. He holds a doctorate in economics from Columbia University and a degree from the American University of Beirut.

He is ranked for arbitration expert witnesses by the legal directories and is a member of the International Association for Energy Economics. He speaks on damages in infrastructure and energy disputes at arbitration conferences in New York, Dubai and São Paulo, and teaches a seminar on project finance for arbitration practitioners.