Region: Hong Kong
Peter & Kim hires from Debevoise
Asia-related disputes specialist Cameron Sim has left Debevoise & Plimpton in Hong Kong to join the partnership at Peter & Kim in Sydney.
03 April 2025
Russia’s Lugovoy Law faces constitutional challenge
Russian bank VTB’s German subsidiary has filed a complaint with Russia’s Constitutional Court over a law allowing the country’s courts to assert exclusive jurisdiction over commercial disputes involving sanctioned Russian parties, which has been used to bar it from pursuing HKIAC arbitration against its parent.
28 March 2025
HKIAC names new deputy secretary-general
Kiran Sanghera is returning to the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre to serve as its deputy secretary-general.
10 January 2025
AI investors bring claim at HKIAC
A group of Chinese investors in an artificial intelligence startup are reportedly pursuing an HKIAC claim against the company’s founders after they exited to set up a new billion-dollar platform.
11 December 2024
Canadian entity launches claim over carbon-offset project
A Canadian investment vehicle says it has brought a claim against the Hong Kong developer of one of the world’s largest carbon-offsetting projects.
18 October 2024
Hong Kong court hits Russian bank with anti-suit injunction
The Hong Kong Court of First Instance has restrained a Russian state-owned bank from pursuing litigation in St Petersburg against its German subsidiary in defiance of an HKIAC arbitration clause.
15 October 2024
Dentons grows in Hong Kong with Norton Rose hires
Alfred Wu and Philip Nunn have joined Dentons’ litigation and arbitration practice in Hong Kong after nearly a decade at Norton Rose Fulbright.
03 September 2024
Foreign judges resign from Hong Kong’s top court
Two high-profile former British judges have resigned from the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal in the past few weeks, citing the political situation in the special administrative region.
20 June 2024
UK appeal court rejects consumer law challenge to Hong Kong award
The Court of Appeal in London has upheld enforcement of a Hong Kong arbitration award that found a Chinese businessman’s widow liable under a personal guarantee, rejecting arguments she was shielded by UK consumer law.
11 June 2024
Hong Kong court finds US arbitrator failed to give reasons on key issues
The Hong Kong Court of First Instance has refused to enforce an ICDR award in an education franchise dispute on the basis that the arbitrator failed to give reasons for her conclusions about key issues.
23 May 2024