About the Seminar:

This presentation concerns whether and how mandatory rules of a country may need to be applied or taken into account by arbitral tribunals. Dr. Hop Dang will share with us his experience of dealing with mandatory rules of Vietnamese law in arbitrations taking place in Singapore or Vietnam that concern transactions related to Vietnam. He will draw examples from the cases that he has sat on concerning mandatory rules of Vietnamese law dealing with matters such as:

• Capacity of corporate officers to sign contracts;
• Arbitrability of the dispute;
• Liability of the branch of a company;
• Arbitration procedures; and
• Public policy.

After analysing relevant rules of Vietnamese law and conflict of laws rules in general, Dr. Hop Dang will draw conclusions regarding how arbitral tribunals should apply mandatory rules of a country that relate to the dispute at hand. 

About the Speaker:

Dr. Hop Dang practises with Allens Arthur Robinson in Hanoi and has over ten years of experience advising investors in commercial transactions and cross border disputes. He holds law degrees from both Vietnam and Australia and wrote his doctoral thesis at the University of Oxford on a subject concerning investment disputes. He was an associate to a judge in the Court of Appeal in Victoria, Australia. He is now a fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators, an arbitrator with the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration and the Pacific International Arbitration Centre. He has been appointed as arbitrator in a number of cases before the Vietnam International Arbitration Centre and the Singapore International Arbitration Centre. In 2010, he advised the Vietnamese Government in drafting the Law on Commercial Arbitration. Hop regularly lectures on foreign investment law, choice of law and international commercial arbitration in law schools in Vietnam, Singapore and other countries. 

About the Chairperson:

Calvin Chan focuses his practice on the resolution of cross-border disputes, particularly in the area of international arbitration. He has been involved in a broad range of crossborder arbitration disputes (both commercial and investor-state), and has handled arbitrations under major arbitration rules such as the AAA/ICDR, ICC, LCIA, HKIAC, UNCITRAL and ICSID. Mr. Chan is currently based in the Singapore office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom ("Skadden"), and previously practised with Skadden’s international arbitration groups in New York, London and Hong Kong. 

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