Chin Chiang Lian
N806
Blue Castle International Apartment
3 Xidawang Road, Beijing
Beijing 100004
China
Recent representative experience: Currently serving as sole arbitrator in an ICC arbitration with a situs in Beijing involving a Chinese and European party; Represented an agency of the PRC Government defending an SIAC arbitration in Singapore brought by a European company concerning the financial consequences of a milestone event which took place in Beijing; Represented a consortium of European investors in an ICC arbitration in Paris against its Chinese joint venture partner. Chinese law governs. The case concerns alleged breaches of the joint venture agreement by the Chinese party which led to the dissolution of the joint venture; Represented a Chinese- European joint venture in a dispute with a European construction contractor subject to arbitration in Zurich under the Swiss Rules of International Arbitration. English law applies. The dispute concerns claims and counterclaims concerning additional and defective work alleged to have been performed in the construction of part of an industrial plant in China; Represented SGS as claimant in a pending ICSID arbitration against the Republic of the Philippines in a dispute concerning violations by the respondent of bilateral investment treaty obligations to the claimant; Edited the English arbitration rules of the Beijing Arbitration Commission
“Key Features of CIETAC’s New Rules”, Shearman & Sterling International Arbitration Briefing, May 2005; “International Arbitration in China – the New Frontier”, Singapore Arbitrator, 2005 SINARB; “Boilerplate
Clauses for Chinese contracts? Think Again”, Global Arbitration Review, Vol 1 Issue 3.