The Asia-Pacific Arbitration Review 2021

Across 17 chapters and 112 pages, The Asia-Pacific Arbitration Review 2021 offers an invaluable retrospective.

Together, our contributors capture and interpret the most substantial recent international arbitration events of the year just gone, with footnotes and relevant statistics. Other articles provide valuable background so that you can get up to speed quickly on the essentials of a particular country as a seat.

This edition covers Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam. It also has overviews of construction and infrastructure disputes in the region (and how to avoid them), investment treaty arbitration (particularly its relevance to the Belt and Road Initiative), the impact of covid-19 on the art of damages calculation, and third-party funding.

Among the nuggets it contains:

• the common mistakes that contractors make when allocating risk in contracts and how to avoid them;
  a groundbreaking year for international arbitrations in Korea;
• the vogue among Asian states for including appeal mechanisms in their ISDS;
• how China’s government has managed to open up the mainland market to institutions such as the ICC, without having to amend the national arbitration law;
• the end of natural-justice based challenges to awards in Singapore; and
• a handy table showing the position of third-party funding in eight Asian states.

Published: June 2020

Chapters:

Overviews

• Arbitration in mainland China’s free trade zones aiming to match international standards
  Shanghai International Economic
  Trade Arbitration Commission (Shanghai International Arbitration Centre)
• Disputes in construction and infrastructure projects
  Craig Shepherd, Daniel Waldek and Mitchell Dearness
  Herbert Smith Freehills
• Innovation in progress – developments in Korea after the launch of KCAB INTERNATIONAL
  Sue Hyun Lim
  KCAB INTERNATIONAL
• Investment Treaty Arbitration in the Asia-Pacific
  Tony Dymond, Z J Jennifer Lim and Cameron Sim
  Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
• Serving the Maritime Ecosystem
  Punit Oza
  Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration
• Covid-19 – the economic fallouty and the effect on damages claims
  Oliver Watts
  FTI Consulting
• The rise of arbitration in the Asia-Pacific
  Andre Yeap SC and Kelvin Poon
  Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP
• Third-party funding in the Asia-Pacific region
  Gitanjali Bajaj, Ernest Yang and Queenie Chan
  DLA Piper

Country chapters:

• Australia 
  Frank Bannon, Dale Brackin, Steve O’Reilly and Clive Luck
  Clayton Utz
• China
  Zhang Shouzhi, Huang Tao and Xiong Yan
  King & Wood Mallesons
• Hong Kong
  Peter Yuen, Olga Boltenko and Matthew Townsend
  Fangda Partners
• India 
  Naresh Thacker and Mihika Jalan
  Economic Laws Practice
• Japan 
  Yoshimi Ohara
  Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu
• Korea
  Beomsu Kim, Young Suk Park and Jae Hyuk Chang
  KL Partners
• Malaysia 
  Andre Yeap SC and Avinash Pradhan
  Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP
• Singapore 
  Alvin Yeo, Chou Sean Yu and Lim Wei Lee
  WongPartnership LLP
• Vietnam
  Nguyen Ngoc Minh, Nguyen Thi Thu Trang and Nguyen Thi Mai Anh
  Dzungsrt & Associates LLC