In conjunction with the Vis East Moot 2019
and with the generous support of Herbert Smith Freehills

Delos turned 5 in January 2019. To celebrate this milestone, Delos has initiated a series of events to take a long view of the evolution of international arbitration and the place of Delos within this wider narrative.

Each event features senior, experienced practitioners in a fireside chat to exchange about their perspectives on the field, their personal journeys, their hopes for the future of arbitration and potential words of caution. The learnings of this series of events are being brought together in a publication by leading young practitioners, who together form the Steering Committee for these events.

The short bios of the speakers follow. To find out about other events in this series, please click here.

6.30pm – REGISTRATION

7.00pm – WELCOME REMARKS, on behalf of Herbert Smith Freehills

7.05pm – INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
Jonathan Lim, Member, Steering Committee, Delos Long View Series; Senior Associate, WilmerHale (London)

7.15pm – FIRESIDE CHAT
Rimsky Yuen, GBM, SC, JP, Temple Chambers (Hong Kong); former Secretary for Justice of Hong Kong
May Tai, Member, Delos Board of Advisors; Managing Partner for Greater China, Herbert Smith Freehills (Hong Kong)
Moderator: Sheila Ahuja, Partner, Allen & Overy (Singapore)

8.15pm – COCKTAIL RECEPTION

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Please find below short bios for the speakers at this event (in alphabetical order). For May Tai, as a Board member of Delos, her bio is available on the Board of Advisors page; for Jonathan Lim, as a member of the Steering Committee for the Delos Long View Series, his bio is available here.

Sheila Ahuja

Sheila Ahuja is a Partner in Allen & Overy's Global Arbitration group based in Singapore. She has advised on a wide range of arbitration matters and arbitration related court matters involving various jurisdictions such as Myanmar, Hong Kong, Singapore, England and Wales, the Philippines, the PRC and India. Sheila has particular experience of energy and infrastructure disputes, disputes arising from joint ventures and distributorship arrangements, and disputes relating to complex financial products. She represents clients in both commercial arbitrations and investor-State arbitrations.

Sheila is a member of the Steering Proceedings Committee of the HK45 (Young HKIAC), the steering committee of the IBA Arb 40 and the Steering Committee of the newly formed Young MCIA (Mumbai Centre for International Arbitration). She is also a contributing author of Alternative Dispute Resolution: The Indian Perspective, published by Oxford University Press. Sheila speaks English, Sindhi, Hindi and Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin).

Rimsky Yuen, GBM, SC, JP

Prior to 1 July 2012, Rimsky Yuen SC’s practice was primarily commercial in nature with experience in various areas of commercial and related civil matters. The key areas of his practice included advisory and court works relating to contract disputes, shareholders and partners disputes, corporate and personal insolvency, banking, insurance and international trade. Apart from acting as advocate in court or arbitral proceedings, Rimsky Yuen SC also from time to time acted as arbitrator in international arbitration and as mediator in commercial and other civil disputes.

During the period from 1 July 2012 to 5 January 2018, Rimsky Yuen SC occupied the position as Secretary for Justice of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (“HKSAR”). In his capacity as Secretary for Justice, he acted as the chief legal adviser to the HKSAR Government overseeing five key areas of legal works: (1) civil disputes involving the HKSAR Government; (2) criminal prosecutions; (3) international law; (4) drafting of government legislation; and (5) legal policy matters (including the promotion of arbitration and mediation) as well as law reform. Major matters that he handled during this period included public law cases (such as judicial review applications involving constitutional, human rights and planning issues), commercial disputes involving the Government, regulatory matters relating to statutory bodies, international law matters (such as investment treaties, surrender of fugitives and assets recovery), as well as arbitration and mediation involving the Government.

After his resignation as Secretary for Justice on 5 January 2018, Rimsky Yuen SC resumed private practice in April 2018 at Temple Chambers as barrister, arbitrator and mediator with special focus in commercial disputes. Since then, he has been appointed as arbitrator in various international arbitrations and has also been retained as advising counsel or advocate in various commercial disputes.