Philip Bambagiotti is an experienced barrister at the NSW Bar in Australia practising in commercial law with a focus on building & construction, infrastructure, property and international law. He takes a broad and pragmatic approach to dispute resolution beyond traditional litigation, having a strong focus on arbitration as well as mediation, negotiation and overall dispute management and solutions.
Philip is admitted as a barrister in England & Wales as well as in Australia. He is a registered foreign lawyer with the Singapore Commercial Courts (SICC). He is a fellow of a number of international commercial organisations, and is an arbitrator on the AIAC and THAC panels. He holds an APEC travel card, allowing him visa free entry for business in most of the countries in the APEC group: including China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Canada.
He conducts a busy international international dispute resolution practice with a focus in London, East Asia (principally Hong Kong and China), the Middle East (notably Dubai) and South East Asia (Singapore, Thailand).
Philip joined 3PB in September 2019 to further develop this international commercial and construction practice. His principal areas of practice include:
- Commercial
- Building & Construction
- Insurance
- Planning & Development
- Property and strata matters
- Professional negligence
- Tax disputes
- Transport
- Arbitration, International Arbitration, Security of Payments claims and judicial review
Philip appears as an advocate in courts, arbitrations, and inquiries as well as in mediations and negotiations - with a particular emphasis on acting as an independent party representative for international, multicultural and mulitlingualtransactional and dispute negotiations. Philip also accepts appointment as an arbitrator, a mediator, an adjudicator and a neutral evaluator.
Apart from traditional advocacy, in courts, tribunals, inquiries, and contested applications and disputes, Philip is experienced in strategic and tactical planning and dispute resolution. Clients often consult Philip early in the life of a potential dispute for long term planning and dispute management, as well as with respect to planning commercial transactions and developments.
Philip has long enjoyed a successful practice acting directly and via in-house solicitors and accountants for businesses, insurers (including property insurers, professional indemnity insurers and reinsurers), governments (including the Australian Commonwealth Government, the NSW Government and its instrumentalities and local government bodies, as well as specialist government entities such as NSW Self-Insurance Corporation and the Australian Tax Office), banks and financiers, industry groups, property developers, builders and subcontractors, building professionals, and landlords.
He takes a collegiate approach and distinctively pragmatic team approach to legal advice and assistance. He accepts retainer relationships as well as ad-hoc instructions. Some in-house as well as private practice solicitors retain Philip to provide point or issue specific advice or even representation within the framework of a wider dispute (as a specialised supplement to a transactional or dispute legal team).