Arbitration Chambers Hong Kong to provide a home for specialists

Arbitration Chambers Hong Kong was launched on 19 September to bring top industry players under the one roof and to offer Asian clients, especially those from China, access to international arbitration talent.

“International arbitrations can be held in any city and governed by any law, so it’s possible that there could be arbitrations based in Hong Kong between a Chinese party and a foreign party, and could be conducted in Portuguese, Chinese or the English language, and under any law,” Gavin Denton, an arbitration specialist who founded Arbitration Chambers Hong Kong, told China Business Law Journal. “So what we are trying to do is to create a chambers whereby people can have access to experienced arbitration counsel and arbitrators with a range of legal and language skills.”

“It’s very difficult for legal practitioners in mainland China to know experienced arbitrators from all around the world,” Denton added, so the chambers provides a platform “where you can go onto the website and see what sort of special skills and people we have from all around the world that can assist in your arbitrations here in Asia and elsewhere”.