Peter Corne

Practice areas

Arbitration & ADR; Corporate & commercial; Environment; M&A

Introduction

Qualified to practise in England & Wales, Hong Kong and Australia, Peter Corne is based in Shanghai where he practised in international law firms from 1996 until 2021 (from 2006 as managing partner). He specialises in Chinese corporate, commercial and climate change practice, and now focuses on international arbitration and mediation, with a sub-focus on disputes and solutions related to climate change. Corne is adjunct professor at NYU Shanghai, where he teaches courses on international mediation and arbitration, a lecturer and trainer of Chinese lawyers in international arbitration and mediation in the Shanghai Bar Association pilot programme, and a guest professor at East China University of Political Science and Law, where he teaches climate change law.

Corne is on the panels of the Shanghai International Arbitration Commission (SHIAC), Shanghai Arbitration Commission, Hong Kong International Arbitration Center, Singapore International Arbitration Centre, the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board, the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration as well as seven other arbitration commissions around the region.

He was presiding arbitrator over the first arbitrations held within the Arbitration Court established by the SHIAC within the Shanghai Free Trade Zone (FTZ). Corne is on the panel of China’s first professional commercial mediation body, the Shanghai Commercial Mediation Centre (SCMC), where he heads its environmental, natural resources and mining committee. He resolved the first mediated dispute between two foreign companies in the FTZ in 2015. He has also been instrumental in helping the SCMC become affiliated with the US-based world renowned dispute resolution institute, JAMS ADR, and in the formulation of the rules underpinning the recently launched SCMC-EUIPO Co-Mediation Mechanism Platform. Educated in Australia, Japan and China, Corne works in English, Mandarin and Japanese.

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