FAMINZ, LLB; FCIArb

Derek is an Auckland Barrister practicing as an arbitrator, mediator and adjudicator. He is a Fellow of AMINZ and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute, UK. He is a former President of AMINZ. Derek has had a limited number of party and Court appointments under the ICC Rules. Prior to 1995, Derek was Head of the Energy and Construction Law section of Simpson Grierson. Derek is a director of Sea + City Limited, a company controlled by the Auckland Regional Council and Ports of Auckland to manage the $4 billion redevelopment of the "tank farm" on Auckland waterfront. He is Chairman of the Dilworth Trust Board, a Trustee of the Melanesian Trust Board; Chairman of BioDiesel Oils NZ Limited and a director of a number of companies in the InterTech Group in Australia.