About Us
The members of Nine Arbitration Chambers are arbitrators and mediators of the highest calibre; delivering reliable, fair, efficient and effective outcomes in relation to complex international commercial dispute resolution matters.
With an unparalleled multi-jurisdictional presence and global capacity, each member has decades of experience in addressing myriad aspects of local and trans-national commercial disputes. In addition, our Chambers collectively converse in; and practise across a broad spectrum of South Asian, Southeast Asian and East Asian languages and dialects – along with deep cultural sensitivities to boot.
Nine Arbitration Chambers is a trusted and steadfast resource for local businesses, multi-national corporations, and governments navigating significant and intricate cross-border challenges.
Rooted in Excellence, Driven by Integrity
Nine Arbitration Chambers has its roots in a group of independent arbitration practitioners who met on the picturesque grounds of Worcester College, Oxford whilst studying for the Postgraduate Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration from the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. These founding members had the initial commonality of being domicile athwart the Asia-Pacific region; but also more importantly developed a warm mutual chemistry, like-mindedness and respect for each other. Inspired by the camaraderie and leadership of the faculty, in coming together, we are similarly bonded by a shared commitment to integrity, excellence, and professionalism. With an average of more than two decades of experience per member, each of us brings a deep fount of technical mastery, insight and common sense to every case.
With our headquarters strategically situated in the hub of Singapore, each member of Nine Arbitration Chambers maintains the member’s own separate private practice, radiating like spokes across the Asia-Pacific region. Nine Arbitration Chambers is a “chambers” model, whereby each member is professionally independent from the others, precluding any avenue for potential conflicts, with disputant Parties engaging their chosen member directly as their arbitrator or mediator.
Global Expertise,
Multilingual Reach
Diversity is our hallmark, and one of our many strengths. More than the sum of our parts, founding members operate from Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Mexico, and Singapore. The founding members alone bring about thirteen languages and dialects notably such as English, Mandarin, Hindi and Spanish – languages alone that would enable the Chambers to effectively communicate with more than half of the global population. With this, and our Common Law and Civil Law duality, we are able to offer dispute resolution paradigms that are broadly accessible; as well as culturally and linguistically sophisticated.
Deep Industry
Knowledge
From construction and infrastructure matters, to energy and natural resources conflicts, to intellectual property and investor-state disputes; our members have extensive experience across the entire gamut of international commercial arbitration disputes. Experience delivers insightful detachment, impartiality, reliability and technical expertise.
Our members craft careful, thoughtful and timely solutions across the continuum of commercial disputes; from the straightforward contractual wrangle to the most intractable and labyrinthine commercial imbroglio.
