Annie Leeks

Annie Leeks has in-depth experience in high-pressure litigation and arbitration having acted for major corporations in a wide range of industries, including health care, mining, energy, financial services, aviation, sports, and construction. Annie has a particular focus on resolving and managing high-stakes disputes for energy sector clients with cross-border operations, including in Australia and across the Asia-Pacific region. Prior to joining Jones Day, Annie was lead legal counsel and privacy officer at a major airline. She has also worked at top-tier international law firms in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Annie’s recent experience includes acting for a multinational engineering company in a Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) arbitration in relation to the design of mining infrastructure in Vietnam, advising a joint venture participant in a Queensland-based coal project in a long-running trial in the Supreme Court of Queensland, acting on an ad hoc arbitration arising from a joint venture dispute regarding a minerals project in Papua New Guinea (PNG), managing a class action for two major construction clients brought in the Federal Court of New South Wales (NSW) related to a Brisbane-based toll road, advising a large Australian coal seam gas producer in a gas supply agreement dispute, and advising an international oil and gas company on international arbitration options arising from the detention of employees in Indonesia.