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Over 20 years of experience in international arbitration. Specialised in resolving claims arising from the carriage of goods by sea and trading of commodities. Particular experience also of offshore energy and shipyard construction matters. Admitted in Singapore, Germany, England & Wales. Panel Arbitrator of SIArb, SIAC, SCMA, HKIAC, AIAC (KLRCA) and EMAC. SMC Associate Mediator on the Panel of Maritime Mediators. Fellow of the CIArb and the SIArb. Member of the LCIA Users' Council and Supporting Member of the LMAA. Recommended Lawyer for International Arbitration in Legal 500 Asia Pacific (2015-16) and Leading Individual in Shipping Litigation in Chambers Asia Pacific (2011-16).
Advocate and Solicitor, Supreme Court of Singapore
emily.choo@nus.edu.sg
Associate, ACIArb
investor-state arbitration; international commercial arbitration; public international law
Emily is Practice Fellow to Mr. J. Christopher Thomas QC and assists him on international commercial and investment arbitrations as well as other matters related to international arbitration where he was appointed as amicus curiae or as an expert. Publicly-reported arbitration and court cases include Antin Infrastructure Services and other v Spain (ICSID case), Louis Dreyfus Armateurs SAS (France) v India (PCA case), Natland Investment Group N.V. and others v Czech Republic (PCA case), Perenco v Ecuador (ICSID case) and Sanum Investments Limited v The Government of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, [2016] SGCA 57, and Swissbourgh Diamond Mines et al v Kingdom of Lesotho (as assistant to the amici curiae before the Singapore Court of Appeal). She is also currently acting as tribunal secretary in two SIAC arbitrations before tribunals chaired by Mr. Thomas QC and by former Attorney-General VK Rajah SC. Emily is a member of the CIArb Sub-Committee on Witness Conferencing in International Arbitration.
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FRICS, FCIArb, FSIArb, Bachelor of Science (BSc) (University of Glamorgan), Diploma in Arbitration (DIPArb) (College of Estate Management, Reading)
Mark.mcgeoch@ankura.com
Fellow, FCIArb
Mark McGeoch is a Senior Director in the Global Construction Practice of Ankura. Mark is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor who specialised in Mechanical and Electrical services soon after qualifying. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Mark has over thirty years international commercial management experience which includes cost, procurement and consultancy work (including claim preparation and review) on a broad range of projects including Buildings (e.g. offices, hotels, airports, retail and universities), Oil & Gas, Marine, Transport and Energy projects in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, the Far East, the United Kingdom and Europe. Mark acts as Quantum Expert and has provided expert quantum reports on valuation of variations and assessment of damages, direct loss and/or expense arising from delay and termination costs for formal dispute pleadings in arbitration and litigation. Mark is also a Chartered Arbitrator and has acted on a number of arbitration’s since qualifying in 1998, including recent SIAC appointments. As well as receiving adhoc and presidential appointments for commercial arbitrations, Mark is on several panels including those at the SIArb, CIArb, SIAC, CIETAC and the AIAC (formerly the KLRCA) as well as Consumer Scheme panels formerly maintained by the CIArb and now CEDR-Solve. He subsequently trained as a mediator with CEDR and is now a Registered CEDR-Solve (on CEDR International Panel and SISV (Singapore Institute of Surveyors and Valuers) Mediator. Mark has carried out 70 mediations to date and is on several Mediator panels and has received appointments from CEDR, the CIArb, the RICS as well as party appointments. Mark was recently invited to join the inaugural panel at the Singapore Construction Mediation Centre.
I have served as Singapore's representative to the Incoterms Committee and to the ICC Arbitration Council for 2 terms and is very well versed in international trading activities and issues. I have successfully mediated a whole range of trade and investment disputes between members of the Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry and also from the international community. I am a Court Appointed Volunteer Mediator with the State Courts of Singapore.
