This will be conducted in English and according to Ho Chi Minh local time. 

Join Legal Plus at our ingural event in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam on Wednesday 30 October 2024! 

For the first time, Legal Plus will be bring our flagship arbitration event to Ho Chi Minh.  The Vietnam: International Arbitration & Corporate Crime Summit will kickoff on Wednesday 30 October for a full day event with a group of local and international experts. 

The event will bring together a group of arbitration expertise to share their knowledge and give tips to on arbitration and lookout for 2025. Through presentations and discussions, you will be able to interact with speakers and fellow legal professionals to enhance and update your knowledge.   It will be an excellent opportunity to ask questions to legal household names in the region, network and create business opportunities, meet & greet and make some new friends!

Registration is now open.  Contact us today or view the latest flyer for registration and program details. Download

If you are interested to sponsor or speak at the event, contact Jason at jason.sinclair@legalplus-asia.com for package details.  For registrations details, contact Bettina at legalpluseventsasia@legalplus-asia.com.

Program
The organiser reserves the right to change the program without prior notice.

• Opening Address by Chairman
  Ben Olbourne, Barrister & Arbitrator, 39 Essex Chambers
• Welcome Address
  Pham Duy Nghia, Director, Vietnam Institute for International Arbitration Research and Training (VIART); Member of the Council, Vietnam International Arbitration Centre (VIAC)
• Keynote Session: Update in Global Arbitration 2024
  John Bishop, International Independent Arbitrator
• 1st Grand Panel: Construction Disputes in Vietnam & Asia: Expert Witness, Damages, Quantum & Supply
  Chain Issues
  
• Digital Disputes & Asset Tracing
  
• Managing M&A  & JV Disputes in Vietnam & the Region
  
• 2nd Grand Panel: Med v Arb v Negotiation — The Arbitrators/Mediators Toolbox in 2024: Different Regions & Industries = Different Best Outcomes?come
  Moderator:  Anne Secomb, Independent Arbitrator
  Panellists:
  • Jonathan Choo, Independent Arbitrator and Mediator, Vantage Chambers
  • Dang Viet Anh, Managing Parter, ANHISA
  • John Bishop, International Independent Arbitrator
• 3rdGrand Panel: Ask the Experts — Expedited & Emergency Procedures in International Arbitration in 2024 — Is Faster Better and Who Really Benefits?
  Moderator: Victor P. Leginsky, International Arbitrator, Arbitralis
  Panellist:
  • Elijah Putilin, Independent Arbitrator and Counsel, Putilin Dispute Management
• Avoiding Contract Disputes in Construction & Energy: Know Your Client & Supply Chain Issues
  
• New Era of Cryptocurrency Regulation: Emerging Case Law
  Olga Boltenko, Boltenko Arbiters
• 4th Grand Panel: Cross-border Shareholders, Stakeholders & Director Disputes with Vietnamese & Foreign Companies — Best Practices and Tips
  Moderator: Amanda Lees, Partner, King & Wood Mallesons
  Panellist:
  • Djamel El Akra, Arbitrator, Vietnam Traders Arbitration Centre (VTA)
• Cross-Border Data Breach: What You Need To Know!
  Scott Warren, National Partner, Tokyo/Shanghai, Squire Patton Boggs; Secretary, Executive Board, The Society for The Policing of Cyberspace
• Managing Corporate Fraud Investigations — Inbound & Outbound
  

Speakers

Ben Olbourne, Chairman

Barrister & Arbitrator, 39 Essex Chambers

Ben is an experienced counsel at the English Bar and an arbitrator in international commercial disputes. He is a member of 39 Essex Chambers and is English qualified, however, he has lived and worked in Asia for more than 10 years. In his counsel work, he provides advisory and advocacy services across a broad range of sectors, principally general commercial, international trade and commodities, business sales and purchases, joint venture and other commercial agreements, energy, and insurance and re-insurance. He has acted for private and state-owned enterprises in many jurisdictions. Most of his work is multi-jurisdictional and involves issues of private international and foreign law. Ben also sits regularly as an arbitrator (50+ appointments) and has been appointed under all of the leading arbitral rules in matters with seats in Singapore, Australia, India, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Russia, France and England among others. He is recommended as counsel and/or as arbitrator in the leading regional directories.

Biography

John Bishop, Keynote Speaker

International Independent Arbitrator

John Bishop is a member of Arbitration Chambers, Hong Kong and London. Arbitration Chambers has amongst its members many of the world’s leading arbitrators. John has more than 40 years’ experience as a construction lawyer. He now practices as an Arbitrator, Mediator & Dispute Board Member. He is a panel member of many leading arbitration institutions. John has been selected by the main legal directories for his expertise in the construction, arbitration and mediation. Comments include “One of the world’s pre-eminent construction experts” and “One of the top 30 construction lawyers in the world”. John is a Fellow of the International Academy of Construction Lawyers, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building, Fellow of the International Construction Law Association, Grade A Accredited Professional of IBEC, Fellow of the Faculty of Building. He has been Chairman, then President of TeCSA, Vice Chairman of the Academy of Experts, Dean of the Faculty of Mediation & ADR, Board Member of the Civil Mediation Council, Chairman of the LCIA consultative committee.

Biography

Pham Duy Nghia, Welcome Message

Director, Vietnam Institute for International Arbitration Research and Training (VIART); Member of the Council, Vietnam International Arbitration Centre (VIAC)

Assoc. Dr. Pham Duy Nghia is a leading scholar of law and governance in Vietnam. He teaches Law and Governance, Public Policy and its Research Methodology. He has been a lecturer who is major in Economics at Fulbright University since 2009. In 2017, he was invited to participate in Case Law Advisory Council including 12 members by the Supreme People’s Court. He had been a head of department of business law at School of Law, Vietnam National University before. After that, he had become the dean of faculty of law at University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City. During the transformation of FETP into the Fulbright School of Public Policy and Management – Fulbright University Vietnam, he was a promoter of establishing the Leadership and Management Program – a new major which it has begun enrolling since 2018. He is also the author of numerous textbooks and scientific publications on legal and administrative issues. One of his studies focuses on effective governance including the way to increase citizen participation in making policy as well as the way to improve efficiency, government transparency and accountability. Assoc., PhD. Pham Duy Nghia has many analysis and regular comments on famous Vietnamese newspapers and mass media on topics such as basic rights of citizens, voice, etc. and accountability in governance, institutional quality, the rule of law and access to justice. He is a Bachelor and Doctor of Law at Leipzig (German). He is also a Fulbright school at School of Law, Harvard University and PhD student at Stanford University.

Biography

Anne Secomb, Moderator - 1st Grand Panel

Independent Arbitrator

Anne is an independent arbitrator based in Singapore. She has more than fifteen years’ experience in the field of international arbitration. Since moving to Singapore in 2015, Anne has sat as arbitrator in cases under the HKIAC, ICC, JCAA, KCAB and SIAC Rules. Before moving to Singapore, Anne was Secretary to the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR and counsel to the ICC Court of Arbitration in Paris. Prior to joining the ICC, Anne was an associate at Salans (now Dentons) in Paris, where she represented parties in administered as well as ad hoc arbitrations and acted as tribunal secretary in commercial and ICSID matters. Anne was educated in Germany and the US and is admitted to the Berlin and New York bars. She is trilingual in English, German and Spanish and speaks French fluently.

Biography

Victor P. Leginsky, Moderator - 2nd Grand Panel

International Arbitrator, Arbitralis

Victor P. Leginsky, Canadian citizen, is an experienced international arbitrator and mediator resident in the United Arab Emirates since 2007. Victor has earned the internationally-recognized designations of Chartered Arbitrator and Fellow from the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and is appointed to the CIArb Panel of Arbitrators. Victor is a CEDR (Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution, London) accredited mediator and mediation experience as Chair, Manufactured Home Park Dispute Resolution Committee (Attorney General of British Columbia, Canada, appointment) and in mediations. Victor is appointed to the panels or lists of arbitrators in a number of international centres and is a committee member of the International Court of Arbitration (ICC) Canada. He has instructed and assessed in respect of Mediation though the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and the CIArb. He is the past Middle East Regional Director of the Association of International Energy Negotiators (AIEN). He is a member in good standing of the Law Society of British Columbia, Canada.

Biography

Amanda Lees, Moderator - 3rd Grand Panel

Partner, King & Wood Mallesons

Amanda is a partner of King & Wood Mallesons. She has been based in Singapore for over 12 years and has over 23 years’ experience in cross border dispute resolution. Amanda acts as counsel in large complex disputes across a range of industries, including energy, resources, construction and infrastructure. She has appeared in arbitrations under all leading arbitration rules. Amanda represented the Republic of Indonesia in its successful defence of a US$580M claim under the India-Indonesia BIT. Amanda has had 25 appointments as arbitrator by SIAC, ICC, LCIA and DIAC including a number that have involved Vietnamese parties. Amanda is listed on multiple institutional panels (SIAC, HKIAC, DIAC, ICDR (AAA), JCAA and AIAC). Amanda is Vice Chair of the CIArb Singapore branch and a Fellow of SIArb. She is a regular speaker internationally, has published widely and is ranked as a leading individual for international arbitration by Legal 500, Who’s Who Legal and ‘most in-demand arbitrator’ in Chambers Global.

Biography

Olga Boltenko,

Boltenko Arbiters

Ms. Boltenko is an investment and trade lawyer with over fifteen years of experience in public international law, investor-State dispute resolution, and commercial arbitration. She has acted as legal counsel in investor-state disputes under the auspices of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the ICSID, the SCC, the ICC, the LCIA, and in various capacities in dozens of commercial disputes in a wide array of industries including oil and gas, mining, infrastructure, construction, telecommunications and pharmaceuticals, across Asia and beyond. She is an accredited mediator with the Singapore International Mediation Centre. Ms. Boltenko teaches a master of laws degree in arbitration and ADR with a focus on Belt & Road investment law at The University of Hong Kong, where she is also a deputy executive director. She is a professor of law at the Royal University of Law and Economics in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where she teaches a course in investment law at the dual degree program with the Free University of Brussels. Ms. Boltenko is admitted to the roll of solicitors of the Hong Kong SAR, to the Bar Association of the Primorsky Region of the Russian Federation, and she is registered as a foreign lawyer with the Singapore International Commercial Court. Ms. Boltenko is listed as an arbitrator on multiple regional arbitrator panels and she has a growing arbitrator practice. Ms. Boltenko has been consistently recognized in legal rankings, including by Who’s Who Legal, where she has been ranked over the years as a “National Leader” for Hong Kong, and as “Under 45” thought leader global elite, where she is described as a “highly motivated and hard-working practitioner who stands out as an excellent choice for investor-state disputes”.

Biography

Prof Elijah Putilin

Independent Arbitrator and Counsel , Putilin Dispute Management

Prof. Elijah Putilin, FCIArb is an independent arbitrator and counsel. Clients and peers describe him as being “highly able, keen and very efficient”, “a world class practitioner” and praise him for his ability “to present even the most complex concepts in a simple and understandable manner”. Prof. Putilin regularly sits as a Sole-Arbitrator, Presiding Arbitrator, or co-arbitrator in cases administered by leading institutions that involve application of civil, common, or international law. Prof. Putilin has also represented and advised clients in over a hundred disputes before SCAI, SCC, LCIA, ICC, ICDR and ICAC (Russia) tribunals, foreign and domestic courts of all levels, international trade tribunals and sporting bodies. His expertise spans over variety of industries, including oil & gas, banking & finance, construction, TMT, and agriculture. In addition to his arbitrator and counsel work, Prof. Putilin lectures on international commercial and investment arbitration at the Tashkent State University of Law and is an Adjunct Professor of international dispute resolution and business law at leading universities in Central and South‐East Asia. Prof. Putilin is a member of the SCC Arbitrators’ Council and a member of the Supervisory Board of the IAC (Kyrgyzstan).

Biography

Jonathan Choo

Independent Arbitrator and Mediator, Vantage Chambers

Jonathan Choo is an independent Arbitrator and Mediator with over twenty years of experience in handling a broad range of high-value international disputes, arbitrations and mediations as Counsel, Arbitrator and Mediator. He is dualqualified as an Advocate and Solicitor in Singapore and a Solicitor in England & Wales and his general commercial disputes background covers complex commercial, international trade, technology, media and broadcasting, construction, projects and infrastructure, insurance (non-marine) and IP disputes. He has successfully represented individuals, MNCs, banks, international contractors, media and broadcasting agencies, telecoms operators and consultants in a variety of disputes. As counsel, Jonathan has advised and represented clients in arbitrations (including Emergency Arbitration proceedings) conducted under all the major institutional rules, including the SIAC Rules, the ICC Rules, the LCIA Rules, SCC Rules and the UNCITRAL Rules. He is also an experienced mediation counsel and Mediator, having conducted and represented parties in numerous mediation hearings, including at the Singapore International Mediation Centre and the Singapore Mediation Centre.

Biography

Scott Warren

National Partner, Tokyo/Shanghai, Squire Patton Boggs; Secretary, Executive Board, The Society for The Policing of Cyberspace

Scott Warren is a partner in our Tokyo and Shanghai offices, specializing in cybersecurity, data privacy and digital data disclosures in Asia and the Middle East. He also has significant experience in compliance, intellectual property (IP), litigation, dispute resolution, and government regulatory and internal investigations. Scott started his career as a civil litigator in California. He moved to Japan in 1993, where he has lived since. He served seven years as general counsel at Sega Corporation and six years as a senior attorney at Microsoft. He serves on the executive board of The Society for the Policing of Cyberspace, a nonprofit organization. He headed Kroll in Japan and Kroll Ontrack across Asia, and later opened Epiq Systems in Japan, providing IP protection, computer forensics and e-discovery solutions. Scott is a California-licensed lawyer and a licensed foreign lawyer in Japan. He is a Certified International Counter-Cyber Crime Professional and certified as a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb). Since 2004, he has served on the Society for the Policing of Cyberspace, a non-profit organization dedicated to working with its global members towards a more secure Internet. He serves at the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan, where he was awarded Leader of the Year for 2020, as Co-Chair of the Legal Services & Intellectual Property Committee; Vice-Chair of the Secure Digital Infrastructure Committee; Vice-Chair of the Information, Communication and Technology Committee; and Vice Chair of the Digital Forum.

Biography

Dang Viet Anh

Managing Parter, ANHISA

Mr. Dang Viet Anh is a Vietnamese-qualified lawyer and barrister having extensive experience in more than 25 years and handling cases in a variety of sectors such as commercial, aviation and shipping, insurance, re-insurance, marine and international trade, and all forms of dispute resolutions from the court to ADR methods. Mr. Anh is very well known for Admiralty work, from collisions and other marine & aviation incidents, salvage and wreck removal, total loss and GA claims, groundings, arrest and release of ships to all other shipping disputes. He also represents clients in the settlement of commercial disputes by negotiation and appears in court and before arbitral tribunals in various cases involving, for example, insurance and reinsurance policies, construction contracts, contracts for the sale of goods and lease agreements and, and tort claims. Mr. Anh has been praised as having “a flexible and realistic approach” and is very often recommended and/or appointed by insurers, shipowners, and parties to complicated cross-border deals who have disputes and need commercial and practical solutions for their troubles. He has been recognized as the leading shipping lawyer of Vietnam by Legal 500 Publications 2020 and handled all kinds of ship finance, namely shipbuilding, sale & purchase, management agreement as well as charterparty, bill of lading, and disputes arising therefrom. He has frequently represented sellers, buyers as well as their banks, and mortgagees in S&P deals who have praised his diligence and described him as “quick, efficient and proactive.”

Biography

Djamel El Akra

Arbitrator, Vietnam Traders Arbitration Centre (VTA)

Djamel EL AKRA is a seasoned expert in international business law with over a decade of experience in Asia. He is a registered arbitrator with institutions such as the NCAC, MIAC, THAC, BICAM, and VTA, and is listed as a mediator with the AIAC and WIPO. He is also listed as a practitioner with VIAC (Vienna). A member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Mr. EL AKRA is an accredited mediator with qualifications from ADR/ODR, IMI, and SIMI. He has been elected as the ICC Young Arbitration and ADR Forum (YAAF) Representative for North Asia (2024-2026). His academic background includes a Master’s in International Business Law, a Master’s in Japanese Language and Studies, and a University Diploma in Chinese. Mr. EL AKRA has worked in law firms and as in-house counsel, focusing on sectors such as energy, infrastructure, corporate law, tax, investment, and intellectual property. His work has earned recognition in The Legal 500 and GC Powerlist Southeast Asia 2017, and he was shortlisted for In-House Lawyer of the Year by Asian Legal Business in 2017. In Southeast Asia, he advised investors with land rights, due diligence on renewable energy projects, joint ventures, and public-private partnerships. He holds leadership roles in the Chamber of Commerce and Industry France Cambodia and the European Chamber of Commerce of Cambodia. In academia, Mr. EL AKRA has been lecturing for over a decade at the Royal University of Law and

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