Chris Bailey, Stephenson Harwood partner, relocates to Singapore
10 March 2022
Arbitration partner returns to Asia Pacific after stint in London.
Chris Bailey, a partner at Stephenson Harwood in London, has relocated to the firm’s Singapore office, strengthening its international arbitration capabilities in Asia and the Pacific.
Bailey is a highly ranked lawyer, with more than 20 years of private practice expertise – including 15 years in Asia – in arbitration, mediation, litigation, and criminal and regulatory investigations. He represents clients in a wide variety of complex high-value cross-border commercial disputes which regularly include claims for in excess of a billion U.S. dollars and predominantly arise out of the media, IT, energy, resource, transport, infrastructure and financial services sectors. He has a particular expertise in oil and gas, construction and investment treaty cases.
Bailey is a solicitor advocate, All Higher Courts of England & Wales; a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; a panel arbitrator of the JCAA, KCAB and SIAC institutions; and a member of the JIDRC Operation Subcommittee, AIPN Japan Sub-Chapter Committee and SIAC Users Council. His matters are submitted to arbitral institutions around the world including the HKIAC, ICC, ICDR-AAA, JCAA, LCIA and SIAC, and national courts including those of Australia, England & Wales, Japan, Thailand and the U.S.
“Chris is a leading disputes lawyer with experience working in the Japanese, Korean and Singaporean markets,” said Rovine Chandrasekera, the Dubai-based global head of international arbitration at Stephenson Harwood. “His relocation to Asia – at a time when we’ve seen an increased demand for advice relating to arbitration across the region and expect to see this trend continue – not only strengthens our existing arbitration and litigation offering, but also provides new opportunities for the firm to expand into other markets.”
In the past decade, the firm has handled high-profile arbitrations, as well as proceedings to enforce, or resist the enforcement of, arbitral awards in various jurisdictions, including before the English, Dubai, Hong Kong and, through its formal law alliance partner Virtus Law, the Singapore courts.
