Asia Arbitration Handbook

This comprehensive and practical reference work offers extensive coverage of international arbitration as practiced across 24 key jurisdictions. In recent decades, there has been an extraordinary growth in arbitration throughout Asia and consequently arbitration centers in Singapore, Hong Kong and mainland China continue to report a steady increase in the number of cases. This handbook is the first to offer practitioners detailed guidance to help resolve issues that are likely to arise throughout the arbitration process and advise them of localized particularities in some areas which have very different arbitration traditions and judicial systems.

Containing specific chapters on jurisdictions throughout Asia (including Australasia) and a chapter devoted to the ICC in Asia, the book offers an impressive level of detail including information on key arbitration trends and statistics. A common structure allows for ease of navigation and quick, comparative cross-referencing between jurisdictions as well as ensuring consistent coverage across the chapters. The jurisdictions covered include People's Republic of China (mainland), Hong Kong SAR, Singapore, India, Australia, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Japan, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam, Brunei, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, Cambodia, Laos, (MASAO) SAR, Mongolia, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka. The editors Michael Moser and John Choong have worked with a strong author team of Asia arbitration experts to comment on the methods of practice in each specific area and provide practical solutions in response to practical issues.

The Asia Arbitration Handbook is unique in its coverage of investor-state arbitration and bilateral investment treaties in this region, making it the first reference work to cover the law and practice of local arbitration, international commercial arbitration and investor-state arbitration in the key Asian jurisdictions. Its exhaustive scope both in terms of covered jurisdictions and content for each jurisdiction will make it a valuable addition to every law firm and in-house legal team library concerned with arbitration in Asia.

Dr Michael J Moser is an international arbitrator, mediator and attorney-at-law. He is currently an arbitrator member of 20 Essex Street Chambers in London and also maintains offices in Hong Kong and Beijing. He is Chairman of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, Vice President of APRAG, a Court Member of the London Court of International Arbitration and a Board Member of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce. Dr Moser has been advising foreign clients doing business in the Asia-Pacific region and the People's Republic of China since 1980 and was the first foreign national to be appointed as an arbitrator in China. He has been rated as "the pre-eminent expert on China-related dispute matters" by PLC Which Lawyer? and Global Counsel Handbook for Dispute Resolution. Who's Who Legal has named him the "star pick" for arbitrator in Asia and "perhaps the best-known arbitration practitioner in the region".

John Choong is a Senior Associate with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, based in Hong Kong. He has practiced for many years in Hong Kong and Singapore, where he has been involved in a number of landmark commercial and treaty arbitrations in Asia, including several billion-dollar arbitrations, and in litigations up to the UK Privy Council. His matters have involved arbitrations under the major arbitration rules in a broad range of industries throughout Asia, including Hong Kong, Singapore, the PRC, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, Japan, Vietnam, Brunei and Mongolia. John is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute and Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators, and is admitted in England and Wales, Hong Kong and Singapore.