Dispute Resolution: Arbitration (International Firms)
Greater China Region Guide 2024 : China
Band 5
Email address
[email protected]Contact number
+852 3711 1600About
Provided by Withers LLP
Withers has a leading international arbitration practice, with more than 30 arbitration lawyers worldwide based across London, Singapore, Hong Kong, New York, Milan, and the British Virgin Islands. We advise on sensitive disputes involving regions all over the world, with practitioners drawn from leading law firms and academia.
Our dedicated team represents multinational corporations, international organisations, investors and governments on complex, high-value and strategically significant disputes under all the major arbitration rules as well as ad hoc arbitrations.
Our work covers the entirety of arbitration cases, from initial case analysis through to successful enforcement of awards. We represent a number of governments and Sovereign States, as well as companies engaged in disputes with States. This includes commercial disputes involving sovereign immunity issues, investment treaty disputes and enforcement of awards against States. We regularly assist clients in relation to complex multi-jurisdictional enforcement of awards.
Our multilingual team members are fluent in numerous languages including French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Hindi, Turkish, Mandarin and Russian, and are admitted to practice in many jurisdictions around the globe and qualified in both common and civil law jurisdictions, with extensive experience working in international organisations and emerging markets. We also serve as arbitrators and are prominent as thought-leaders in the field.
Chambers Review
Withers' arbitration offering in Hong Kong is known for acting for a broad clientele of domestic and international players across a range of industry sectors. The team is well equipped to handle a spectrum of commercial arbitrations, including investment treaty claims. It regularly represents clients in the ICC, HKIAC, CIETAC and SIAC.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Withers offer a good team with a number of recent hires and good Chinese language-speaking practitioners at the junior level. They are responsive and provide a high service level."
"We not only get the legally correct advice but what brings us the needed results."
"They showed deep knowledge of our business environment and openness to investigating the situation in different regions."
"Withers offer a good team with a number of recent hires and good Chinese language-speaking practitioners at the junior level. They are responsive and provide a high service level."
"We not only get the legally correct advice but what brings us the needed results."
"They showed deep knowledge of our business environment and openness to investigating the situation in different regions."
Notable Practitioners
Sherlin Tung is co-leader of the Withers dispute resolution practice. She handles HKIAC and CIETAC arbitrations, as well as ICC and ICDR arbitrations.
"She's extremely involved in all aspects of the arbitration community and has incredible personal skills. She's extremely dedicated to her clients as well."
"Sherlin is a dynamo of energy when it comes to international arbitration and does a lot to make sure it's a central part of Hong Kong life."
"Sherlin is a big personality in the field and brings characteristic force to her endeavours."
"Sherlin has a really good grasp of her client's needs and a very approachable personality, which is good in difficult situations."
"She's smart, business and solution-oriented, well connected and a lot of fun to work with - the best service I have received for a long time."