Alexander is a Senior Associate in the Dispute Resolution group.

Alexander is dual qualified, being admitted to practice in England & Wales and New York State. He has worked in WFW’s London and Bangkok offices and was seconded to infrastructure contractor Colas Ltd from October 2021 to January 2022. He specialises in energy and infrastructure disputes, with a particular focus on construction and regulatory energy matters.

Alexander is experienced in FIDIC, JCT and NEC forms of construction contracts and has extensive experience in all forms of dispute resolution, including adjudication, expert determination, arbitration, litigation and mediation. He is also adept at working with a variety of experts, including technical, delay and quantum experts.

Alexander was listed as a ‘Key Lawyer’ in Legal 500 UK 2025 for Construction: Contentious and International Arbitration, with Legal 500 citing the following client comments in this and previous editions: “Alexander Creswick is mature beyond his years. He is very good at dealing with people inside and outside the firm and appreciating the commercial objectives at play”, “He is dependable and unflappable; a real star”, “Alexander Creswick is extremely clever, and very adept in identifying and developing legal arguments that are not always obvious but potentially devastating”, “Alex Creswick is great with detail and has a wide range of experience” and “Senior associate Alexander Creswick combines legal skill with really good technical/scientific understanding. Also, very personable”.

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  • Advising a consortium of contractors led by a large state owned Chinese contractor in respect of an ICC arbitration, with a dispute value of approximately $82m, relating to a force majeure and termination dispute arising out of an amended FIDIC Silver Book contract relating to the design, construction, operation and maintenance of a 60MW(AC) PV plant in Malawi.
  • Advising a major state owned Danish renewable energy company in respect of a dispute against a US headquartered global transformer manufacturer relating to defective shunt reactors supplied for use on the offshore substation of a large UK offshore windfarm.
  • Advising the UK infrastructure arm of a French headquartered global contractor in respect of multiple disputes arising out of a major regional infrastructure project in Kent, England, procured under an NEC4 ECC Contract.
  • Advising Europe’s largest supplier of renewable and sustainable biomethane to the transport sector in a dispute with a UK mains gas transporter relating to alleged safety issues and potential breaches of competition law to be investigated by Ofgem and the HSE.
  • Advising a UK contractor as project counsel on the London Gatwick Airport main runway resurfacing project, procured under and NEC3 ECC contract.
  • Advising a major European energy companies in respect of various cable burial, cable failure and risk to shipping disputes arising in relation to export cables for a variety or UK offshore wind farms.
  • Advising the Offshore Renewables Joint Industry Programme, led by the Carbon Trust, in respect of an in-depth legal analysis on the coexistence of the UK’s offshore wind and fishing industries and their respective access to the sea, including two rounds of consultation and legal analysis followed by a round table meeting with industry stakeholders chaired by Alexander and WFW Regulatory and Planning Partner Nick Walker.

Education

  1. 2014 BPP Law School, Legal Practice Course
  2. 2013 University of Durham, LLB in Law

Memberships and Associations

  1. Technology and Construction Solicitors’ Association (TeCSA)
  2. Society of Construction Law (SCL)
  3. Law Society of England and Wales