Stuart has drafted complex choice of law clauses and multi-tier and multi-party arbitration and jurisdiction agreements for many transactions, including multi-million dollar M&A deals and international oil and gas projects in the Middle East, Nigeria, India and South America.

Stuart has conducted arbitrations under both common law and civil law in England, mainland Europe (including Sweden, Switzerland, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic), the Middle East, Africa and Australia. He has acted for and against parties from the UK, mainland Europe, Central Europe, Asia, North and South America, Australia and Africa.

Queenie Lau is described by Legal 500 as “an eloquent advocate, [who] handles difficult legal issues very elegantly on her feet. An incredibly bright junior who communicates very well with judges.” Legal 500 has ranked her in the top category of leading Hong Kong juniors for commercial disputes and employment law. Chambers Asia also describes Queenie as “definitely a rising star”, “one of the most meticulous junior barristers in town” and “one of the most responsive and hard-working junior barristers at Temple Chambers”; “thorough in her legal analysis, her work is always excellent and she is dedicated and consistently on top of the details of her cases”.

Queenie has a broad, predominantly civil, practice which includes commercial law, securities and regulatory matters, banking, company law, land law, conveyancing, building management, professional negligence, employment law, family law, defamation, probate and commercial fraud. She has been instructed by a media conglomerate to advise and act for it in a range of cases, acts for the Securities and Futures Commission as well as parties under investigation, and also acts both for and against banks. She has substantial trial and appellate experience both as an advocate in her own right and as junior counsel.

Queenie is also regularly involved in arbitration and mediation, and has experience conducting both arbitrations and mediations in Putonghua. Who’s Who Legal (Mainland China & Hong Kong SAR - Arbitration) has reported that Queenie “gains impressive endorsements for her arbitration practice, with peers highlighting her ‘strong legal skills and wide range of experience’”.

Fluent in English and Chinese, Benson focuses on counsel work in international arbitration and arbitration-related litigation involving Southeast Asian and Greater China regions.

He heads our multi-qualified, multinational, and multilingual international arbitration team in Singapore. He is qualified in Singapore, England and Wales, and New York. He also possesses experience in and full rights of audience before Singapore courts. His experience includes infrastructure, construction, energy and natural resources, corporate, merger and acquisition, disputes involving tech companies, life sciences, international trade, investment, and commodities disputes.

Most of his work is as counsel. However he has been appointed three times as a sole arbitrator by SIAC and ICC. He is on the SIAC Reserve Panel of Arbitrators. He is an accredited mediator with over 50 sole or co-mediator appointments in the United States and Singapore. He is a SIMI Accredited Mediator (Level 2).

He is a CIArb Fellow. He is a member of the YSIAC Committee. He has been involved in other arbitration committees such as Maxwell Chambers Steering Committee, SIAC Users Council, ICC Singapore Arbitration Group Thought Leadership Sub-Committee, and CIArb Singapore Branch YMG as co-chair. He published articles in academic journals and lectured on, amongst others, arbitration and mediation. He led 3 teams of 8 Assistant Editors as Associate Editor at Kluwer Arbitration Blog.

He is listed as a Rising Star by the Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2020, 2021, and 2022. He is also listed in the Legal 500 Private Practice Arbitration Powerlist – Southeast Asia 2022.

Dong is Managing Counsel at the HKIAC.

Prior to joining the HKIAC, Dong worked for nearly nine years at an international firm in Hong Kong and Beijing, where she gained experience in a wide range of disputes, including commercial, trade, and construction disputes involving parties of different background and nationalities. Dong has been involved in international arbitrations conducted under various institutional rules, including the HKIAC Rules, as well as in arbitration-related court proceedings.

Dong has full professional proficiency in written and spoken Chinese and English, and is also fluent in Italian. Dong is admitted in Hong Kong and New York.

Eric is a partner in our Dispute Resolution Group, based in Hong Kong. He has extensive experience advising and representing clients on complex, high-value and high-profile disputes and investigations, in Hong Kong and the PRC and generally in Asia. Eric's clients include financial institutions, listed companies and multinational conglomerates.

He has represented clients in arbitrations seated in Hong Kong, Singapore, Macau, London and Geneva, under various arbitration rules. Eric is recognised in the Legal 500 directory in 2016 and 2018 for his arbitration expertise. He received the Ray Hughes prize awarded by the Charted Institute of Arbitrators, and writes on arbitration topics regularly, including co-authoring a chapter in the treatise: Arbitration in Hong Kong: A Practical Guide (4th Edition) (2017).

Eric also has deep expertise handling litigation, and regularly assists clients in navigating investigations conducted by regulators, including the SFC, ICAC, HKMA, Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Communications Authority, Hong Kong Customs and the Department of Health.