Commercial Arbitration

Extract from 2008 International Who's Who of Commercial Arbitration Lawyers

James Kwan is a partner in Simmons & Simmons' dispute resolution group. His experience has a particular emphasis on infrastructure, engineering, and energy disputes. He has a range of international experience, having been involved in disputes and arbitrations in the Middle East, Germany, Greece, Switzerland, Thailand, Korea, China, Vietnam, Japan and Singapore.

His representative arbitration engagements include: construction disputes: disputes arising out of the construction of combined cycle power plants in the Middle East and Asia, rail systems (eg, Bangkok and Dubai Metros, Pusan-Kimhae, Singapore Marina), airports (eg, Hong Kong International Airport), sewerage systems (Hong Kong South Island Sewerage Improvements and Sewerage Treatment and Disposal Project, for example), and residential and commercial developments; energy sales agreements; joint operating agreements; petroleum concession agreements in the Middle East; oilfield developments in south-east Asia; sale of goods contracts; lease agreements; and technology disputes (eg, supply and installation of a postal mechanisation system). He acted for a Korean gymnast and Korean Olympic Committee in a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) arbitration for the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.

Mr Kwan is an international arbitrator and is listed as an arbitrator on the Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC) and China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) panels.

Mr Kwan is an elected committee member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators for the UAE branch. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He was appointed a DIFC Legislative Committee Member to reform the DIFC arbitration law. In 2008, Mr Kwan was appointed an honorary member of the DIAC. He is the UAE committee representative of the Australasian Forum for International Arbitration (AFIA).

Mr Kwan writes and speaks extensively on arbitration and is the author of a chapter on Interim Measures in Arbitration in China: A Practical Guide, published by Sweet & Maxwell, in December 2004. His articles have been published in journals such as the International Arbitration Law Review and Global Arbitration Review. Mr Kwan is a guest lecturer for the DIAC and King's College University of London arbitration courses and for the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Mr Kwan graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Psychology and Chemistry) and Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from the Australian National University. He also has a diploma of International Commercial Arbitration. He is admitted as a solicitor in New South Wales (Australia), Hong Kong, and England and Wales.

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Biography: Construction

James Kwan is a partner in Simmons & Simmons' dispute resolution group. His experience has a particular emphasis on infrastructure, engineering, and energy disputes. He has a range of international experience, having been involved in disputes and arbitrations in the Middle East, Germany, Greece, Switzerland, Thailand, Korea, China, Vietnam, Japan and Singapore.

His representative arbitration engagements include: construction disputes: disputes arising out of the construction of combined cycle power plants in the Middle East and Asia, rail systems (eg, Bangkok and Dubai Metros, Pusan-Kimhae, Singapore Marina), airports (eg, Hong Kong International Airport), sewerage systems (Hong Kong South Island Sewerage Improvements and Sewerage Treatment and Disposal Project, for example), and residential and commercial developments; energy sales agreements; joint operating agreements; petroleum concession agreements in the Middle East; oilfield developments in south-east Asia; sale of goods contracts; lease agreements; and technology disputes (eg, supply and installation of a postal mechanisation system). He acted for a Korean gymnast and Korean Olympic Committee in a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) arbitration for the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.

Mr Kwan is an international arbitrator and is listed as an arbitrator on the Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC) and China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) panels.

Mr Kwan is an elected committee member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators for the UAE branch. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He was appointed a DIFC Legislative Committee Member to reform the DIFC arbitration law. In 2008, Mr Kwan was appointed an honorary member of the DIAC. He is the UAE committee representative of the Australasian Forum for International Arbitration (AFIA).

Mr Kwan writes and speaks extensively on arbitration and is the author of a chapter on Interim Measures in Arbitration in China: A Practical Guide, published by Sweet & Maxwell, in December 2004. His articles have been published in journals such as the International Arbitration Law Review and Global Arbitration Review. Mr Kwan is a guest lecturer for the DIAC and King's College University of London arbitration courses and for the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Mr Kwan graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Psychology and Chemistry) and Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from the Australian National University. He also has a diploma of International Commercial Arbitration. He is admitted as a solicitor in New South Wales (Australia), Hong Kong, and England and Wales.