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Our dedicated international arbitration team supports clients in arbitration proceedings in international commercial and construction disputes and in investment arbitration. Besides acting as counsel, our senior  team members also act as arbitrators, giving them invaluable experience in handling arbitral proceedings as well as inside knowledge of the key arbitral institutions in the region and further afield.

Our maritime disputes team advises across the full spectrum of disputes including charter party, bill of lading, marine casualty, brokerage and brokers liability, ship management, insurance and reinsurance, trade credit, political risk and specialist insurance arbitration.

Through our locally qualified lawyers, we also advise and act on a broad range of commercial disputes in the Hong Kong Courts for both listed and privately held companies, trading houses and banks, including shareholder and joint venture disputes, insolvency proceedings, regulatory enquiries, disputes under contracts relating to sale of goods and services, documentary credits, financing issues, bills of exchange, cyber security breaches, distribution and agency agreements, management agreements and product liability issues, both domestic and international. We have particular experience of obtaining and resisting injunctive relief, as well as expertise in enforcement proceedings.

Using our global experience and local knowledge, we can safeguard your interests before arbitral tribunals, state courts and in alternative dispute resolution. With over 400 disputes lawyers in nearly 40 countries, we can resolve both local and complex multi-jurisdictional disputes.

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International Arbitration
Arbitration is your dispute resolution mechanism of choice when you need flexibility, enforceability and an award which reflects the realities and com
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Litigation in Hong Kong Courts
Litigation services in Hong Kong are provided by lawyers of our Associated firm Lau, Horton & Wise LLP. They cover the full range of commercial di
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Maritime Disputes
CMS' sector-focused lawyers are dispute resolution specialists and business-minded problem solvers. If you have an issue that requires legal acti
Specialist & Commodity Disputes
We act for trading houses and banks on disputes arising under commodity sale and purchase contracts, documentary credits, financing issues, bills of e
24/10/2023
International arbitration trends - What the data says
As a leader in dispute resolution, CMS has conducted a data-driven project to assess whether the number of arbitrations is decreasing and if there are trends that can be identified in this type of dispute resolution. We are publishing our findings in a series of six data-driven articles.

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09/02/2024
Oil & Gas: English court restrains foreign JOA proceedings in breach of...
In The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited v Sunlink Energies and Resources Limited [2023] EWHC 3135 (Comm), the English Commercial Court demonstrated its willingness to ensure that...
08/01/2024
Justice in the Digital Age: Exploring AI’s Role in International Arbitration
IntroductionThe use of artificial intelligence (“AI”) in international arbitration has been a topic of debate and discussion long before the launch of chatbot ChatGPT in late November 2022.  Indisputably...
15/12/2023
Oil & Gas Disputes Survey 2023
Our Oil and Gas Disputes Survey 2023 has highlighted that regulator activity, environmental issues and global economic and political challenges are seen by those in the oil & gas industry to be driving...
04/12/2023
Hague 2019 and recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments – a welcome...
UK Government confirms entry into Hague 2019On 23 November 2023 it was confirmed that the UK government will sign the Hague Convention of 2 July 2019 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments...
04/12/2023
International arbitration law and rules in Hong Kong
Hong Kong is probably the only city in the world with three leading international arbitral institutions. These are HKIAC, CIETAC (with its CIETAC Hong Kong Arbitration Centre (CIETAC HKAC)), and ICC (with...
20/03/2023
UK Announces it will become a party to the Singapore Convention on Mediation
It has been announced that the UK will become a party to the United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation (the “Singapore Convention”), as an “important...
17/03/2023
InterDigital v Lenovo – High Court sets global FRAND licence terms
The UK High Court has handed down its decision in the FRAND trial of the InterDigital v Lenovo litigation. It concerned InterDigital, an American company holding patents relevant to 3G, 4G and 5G technology...
23/12/2022
International Disputes Digest - 2022 Winter Edition
Welcome to the winter edition of the International Disputes Digest, our bi-annual publication that considers and analyses current trends in global dis­pute-res­ol­u­tion and their wider impact. With war raging...
12/12/2022
Global Life Sciences & Healthcare Forum 2022: Facing the opportunities...
Digital advances and innovative therapies are pushing the boundaries of health and the legal world has to keep pace Life sciences are fizzing with ingenuity and innovation with revolutionary gene and...
22/11/2022
Global Life Sciences & Healthcare Forum 2022: Life Sciences are reaping...
Digital transformation in life sciences is creating opportunities to counter healthcare’s most intractable problems from treating rare diseases to accelerating diagnostics and reducing treatment backlogs...
16/11/2022
Technology Transformation – Media
The media sector is known to be highly competitive, with that competition driving innovation. Older media businesses have had to grapple with disruptive new entrants. And those new entrants are constantly...
11/11/2022
Technology Transformation - Consumer Products & Retail
Digitalisation has transformed how consumer products are manufactured, distributed and sold. The push to maintain a competitive advantage, drives increased investment in new technologies. This investment...