About this Seminar:-

Traditionally, banks and other financial institutions have insisted on litigating disputes and, indeed, have spurned the option of arbitration. This tide is turning, however, with the globalisation of financial markets, concerns over cross-border enforceability of court judgments, and the sheer magnitude of litigation since the fall of Lehman Brothers. Nowhere is the shift more visible than in the publication by ISDA (the International Swaps and Derivatives Association) of model arbitration clauses for use in their master agreements. We have also seen leading arbitration institutions start competing for disputes arising from structured financial products, as well as competitors like PRIME Finance (the Panel of Recognised International Market Experts in Finance) offering specialist panels to arbitrate complex financial disputes.

How will these developments change the way financial institutions agree to resolve complex international disputes? What are the advantages and disadvantages of arbitration for financial institutions? Lucy Reed will describe recent developments and offer her perspectives on what is to come.  

Seminar Programme:-

About the Speaker: 

Lucy Reed, now based in Singapore, is co-head of Freshfields’ global international arbitration group. She has represented private and public clients in over 100 commercial and investment treaty arbitrations, and sits selectively as arbitrator. Lucy serves on the SIAC Court (effective 1 April), the ICC Court Governing Body, the LCIA Court and the ICCA Governing Board. She has served as chair of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration and president of the American Society of International Law. Lucy was recently awarded the 2014 Asia Women in Business Award for Best in Dispute Resolution.

Lucy writes and lectures extensively in the field of international arbitration. She is co-author of A Guide to the SIAC Arbitration Rules (OUP 2014), the Guide to ICSID Arbitration (Kluwer 2011) and The Freshfields Guide to Arbitration Clauses in International Contracts (Kluwer 2011). Formerly a lawyer and advocate for the US Department of State, Lucy is a member of the New York & Washington DC bars. She was educated at the University of Chicago Law School & Brown University.  

About the Chairperson: 

Mohan R Pillay is a Singapore and UK qualified disputes lawyer with more than 25 years’ experience in commercial litigation and regional arbitration work.

He is a Chartered Arbitrator and Joint Head of Pinsent Masons MPillay LLP, a Singapore Joint Law Venture and Managing Partner of the Singapore constituent practice of MPillay. His main areas of practice are commercial & corporate disputes, professional negligence, building & civil engineering contracts, and arbitration. He has acted as Arbitrator (both sole and presiding) in a number of domestic and international arbitrations.

Mohan's teaching appointments have included Adjunct Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore [2003-2011] and Visiting Professor, the Centre of Construction Law, King’s College London [2008-2011]. Mohan is the Co-Chair [2014-2016] of the Dispute Resolution & Arbitration Committee, IPBA and Past President of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (2011 - 2013).  

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