Nicholas Lingard

Practice Areas

Head of Freshfields’ international arbitration practice in Asia, Nick is an experienced international arbitration counsel and advocate. He represents clients in commercial and construction disputes across a variety of industries, under all major arbitral rules, including ICSID, ICC, SIAC, UNCITRAL, HKIAC, KLRCA, JCAA, AAA and NAI, and under all major systems of law.

He also leads one of the most active treaty arbitration practices in Asia, representing both investors and states, in high-profile, politically complex cases around Asia and the world.

Nick is the co-author of the second edition of A Guide to the SIAC Arbitration Rules (Oxford University Press, 2018) and a leading Japanese-language practitioner text on international arbitration. A former law clerk to the Chief Justice of Australia, Nick was educated at the University of Queensland and Harvard Law School, where he was a Frank Knox Memorial Fellow, and is qualified to practise in New York and New South Wales, Australia.

Professional Memberships

Expert member of the Energy Charter Treaty Secretariat’s legal advisory taskforce; Singapore International Arbitration Centre Users’ Council

Publications

Nicholas’s publication includes "A Guide to the SIAC Arbitration Rules 2nd ed."

Languages Spoken

English and Japanese (Fluent)

Education