Nick Watts

About Nick

Nick is a Partner in HFW’s Construction team, based in Sydney. He specialises in handling commercial disputes and litigation in the areas of construction and infrastructure as well as energy and resources in Australia, and across Asia. 

He assists clients in the construction industry with all aspects of Project Delivery including procurement and contract negotiation at project inception and he regularly acts as project counsel. Assisting with the administration of project contracts to achieve compliance, timely payment and completion, Nick is able to draw on his litigation expertise to help clients manage and resolve disputes early in a project to avoid the expense of litigation. He has strong experience in mediation, expert determination and arbitration to support his clients in litigation when disputes do arise.

Nick has worked in top tier international, Australian and New Zealand litigation firms and has conducted complex litigation in the Australian and New Zealand Courts. He has assisted clients in a number of Inquiries and has experience in International Arbitration as well as providing domestic litigation supervision and management in Southeast Asia, particularly in Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam and Myanmar.

Having lived and worked in both Jakarta and Singapore, Nick possesses invaluable and extensive ‘on-ground’ experience assisting clients from a diverse range of industries on the various processes and procedures for dispute resolution, as well as local regulatory and compliance issues in Indonesia.