Michael Sellers
Michael Sellers brings senior practitioner experience in LNG and gas trading, portfolio management, valuation, hedging and commercial operations to disputes concerning how businesses operate and make decisions in real market conditions.
Areas of expertise
- LNG trading and commercial market practice
- LNG portfolio management and optimisation
- Portfolio and cargo valuation
- Pricing and trading behaviour
- Financial hedging and exposure management
- Commercial operations and cargo-management decisions
- Force majeure and non-performance
- Commercial consequences of disruption or non-delivery
Michael Sellers provides expert and advisory support in complex LNG and gas disputes, bringing together experience of the disputes process with senior-level responsibility for LNG trading, portfolio management, financial exposures, commercial operations, valuation and pricing.
He has experience giving evidence before arbitral tribunals in London, Singapore and New York. His disputes work draws on direct practitioner experience to address questions concerning LNG trading and market practice, portfolio optimisation and valuation, commercial decision-making, pricing and the consequences of force majeure and non-performance.
Before his advisory career, Michael Sellers held senior positions within BG Group’s LNG business. He led LNG portfolio optimisation and valuation and subsequently worked on the integration of BG’s LNG portfolio into Shell. He also managed BG’s European gas trading desk.
This experience gives Michael Sellers a perspective grounded in how major LNG businesses actually manage portfolios, value optionality, make trading decisions and respond to changing market and operational circumstances. That practitioner background is particularly relevant where a dispute depends not simply on contractual interpretation, but on understanding the commercial decisions and conduct that would reasonably be expected within a sophisticated LNG business.
Why Michael Sellers?
Michael Sellers is particularly suited to disputes where the question is how an experienced LNG market participant would have valued, managed, traded or optimised a portfolio or responded commercially to changing circumstances. His combination of expert-witness experience and direct responsibility for major LNG and gas portfolios provides a strong bridge between market evidence and real-world commercial practice.
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