Organisation: Asian International Arbitration Centre

A panel at GAR Interactive: Singapore asked if Singapore law could be a credible alternative to English law as a governing law for international commercial contracts – and if that would require incorporating aspects of civil law to attract users from neighbouring countries.

17 September 2020

A panel at GAR Interactive: Singapore highlighted the impact of covid-19 on commercial and investment arbitration and the challenges of virtual hearings, also asking whether it might lead parties to rethink their choice of arbitral seat.

10 September 2020

A Malaysian state-owned shipping company has applied to set aside an award worth over US$340 million won by a Shell subsidiary at the Asian International Arbitration Centre in a dispute over one of the country’s largest offshore oil fields.

22 July 2020

Three partners who have collectively worked at Malaysian firm Skrine for over half a century have left to open their own disputes boutique in Kuala Lumpur.

17 July 2020

A Thai coal-mining company has made good on its threat to file a new UNCITRAL claim worth US$450 million against Laos over the termination of a power plant project, after a prior award it won over the same matter was set aside by the Malaysian courts.

15 July 2020

The former director of the Asian International Arbitration Centre, Sundra Rajoo – who has been facing criminal charges in Malaysia for using the centre’s money to publish a book – has seen the charges against him quashed, as a dispute over the appointment of his successor continues.

22 June 2020

Vinayak Pradhan, a leading arbitrator in South East Asia and former president of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, has died aged 72.

24 April 2020

A Thai coal-mining company has threatened to bring a new UNCITRAL arbitration against Laos over the termination of a power plant project, more than seven years after the Malaysian courts set aside a US$56 million award in its favour relating to the same dispute.

20 April 2020

A Shell subsidiary has won more than US$340 million in a billion-dollar arbitration at the Asian International Arbitration Centre, launched by a Malaysian state-owned shipping company over one of the country’s biggest offshore oil fields.

14 April 2020

A court in Delhi has enforced a US$278 million UNCITRAL award in favour of a subsidiary of Vedanta Resources and its partners against the Indian government, affirming that foreign awards can be submitted for enforcement up to 12 years after they are issued.

09 April 2020