Christopher Goncalves

Mr. Goncalves also is a seasoned industry and damages expert with independent analysis, reporting, and testimony experience for significant international arbitration and litigation matters concerning disputed energy prices, markets, commercial standards, valuation, and financing requirements for energy projects, assets, contracts, and transactions. He has provided expert analysis and reports for over fifty pre-dispute and dispute matters under the auspices of ICSID, UNCITRAL, the ICC, ICDR/AAA, the Milan Chamber of Commerce, the Royal Courts of Justice of England and Wales, and US federal courts. Of these, Mr. Goncalves has provided oral testimony in eighteen international investment and commercial disputes. Who’s Who Legal has recognized Mr. Goncalves as a leading energy industry and damages expert for several years and as a global elite thought leader in 2022.

Among his expert witness and business advisory experience, Mr. Goncalves has served as the lead LNG and natural gas market and industry expert to energy companies and their legal counsel for over a dozen LNG and natural gas price reviews and/or price review arbitrations in Europe and Asia. He also has provided LNG commercial strategy for short- and long-term sales pricing, target markets, and priority customers for leading NOCs and US LNG exporters.

Mr. Goncalves recently coauthored the following chapters: “Expert Role in Causation Analysis for Energy Transition Related Arbitration,” in The Investment Treaty Arbitration Review – Edition 6; and “Expert Evidence in Price Reviews and Disputes” in Gas & LNG Price Arbitration 2019. He also has given numerous presentations and has written several articles on LNG and natural gas market, commercial, and pricing conditions worldwide.

His professional experience spans over fifty countries throughout the Americas, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Eurasia, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. Within these regions, he offers direct energy market experience in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, Algeria, Egypt, Qatar, Jordan, Kuwait, Yemen, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Angola, Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Namibia, Morocco, India, Pakistan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, East Timor, Papua New Guinea, Australia, China, Japan, South Korea, and other countries.