Legal and Dispute Resolution Services 

Legal and dispute resolution services providers who specialise in resolving financial and investor-state disputes are much needed to help enhance Hong Kong's position as an international dispute resolution services centre. The HKSARG is looking for the following seasoned legal professionals:

Dispute resolution professionals (arbitrators or mediators):

• are multilingual
• have been appointed to resolve international commercial and financial disputes or investment disputes between investors and host states 
• have given awards or have facilitated settlement agreements in 3 or more cases in international commercial and financial disputes or at least one case in investor-state disputes in the past 5 years

Legal professionals (other than dispute resolution professionals):

• are qualified to practice law in his/her home jurisdiction 
• are fit and proper to be registered as a foreign lawyer in Hong Kong by The Law Society of Hong Kong or employed as in-house counsel of companies in Hong Kong
• have at least 8 years post qualification experience as a legal practitioner in any jurisdiction and holds a current practising certificate in his/her home jurisdiction
• possess specialised knowledge of and at least 5 years of experience in (i) cross-border transactions in which countries or jurisdictions play the roles of investing or host states; or (ii) matters involving mergers and acquisitions, cyber security law, data privacy law, maritime and aviation law, sustainable green finance and legal products, blockchain, bitcoin, crypto assets, virtual currencies, sports law and intellectual property law.

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