Why SIAC

Why SIAC

A Respected Neutral Arbitral Institution With A Record of Enforcement

Established in 1991 as a not for profit non-governmental organisation, the SIAC has a proven track record in providing neutral arbitration services to the global business community. SIAC arbitration awards have been enforced by the courts of Australia, China (Hong Kong), India, Indonesia and the USA amongst other New York Convention countries.


An International Organisation With A Global Outlook

• SIAC is headed by an international Board of Directors comprising the world’s foremost arbitration practitioners from: Australia, India, Korea, Singapore, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the USA who bring a wealth of international arbitration experience from civil and common law jurisdictions to the SIAC.

• The Board is supported by an international Council of Advisors, comprising respected eminent leaders of the international arbitration community who offer their expertise on current issues and developments.

• The centre hosts an experienced international panel of over 320 expert arbitrators from 31 jurisdictions.

• SIAC hosts a Secretariat comprising experienced lawyers qualified in China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, The United Kingdom and The USA. Our team fosters an outlook that reflects the global business origins of our users.

• 85% of SIAC’s caseload is international in nature. In 45% of the new cases for 2009 SIAC was called upon to provide arbitration services to parties who had no connection to Singapore at all.

• The SIAC Rules are tested and designed by leading practitioners in the international arbitration world in consultation with our users, resulting in rules that span civil and common law perspectives.


SIAC Facilitates The Efficient Resolution of Your Dispute

• We provide the certainty of established and tested Rules, so there is less risk of tactical delay or obstruction of the process.

• We appoint arbitrators where the parties are unable to agree under the SIAC Rules, UNCITRAL Rules and ad hoc cases. Appointments are made on the basis of our specialist knowledge of the arbitrator’s expertise, attributes and track record. Click here to view our panel of arbitrators.

• There are strict standards of admission for the SIAC Arbitrator Panel. The quality control of our arbitrators, results in less risk of challenges and delay.

• We negotiate and fix the terms of appointment of arbitrators.

• Our full time staff manage all the financial aspects of the arbitration including:

• Regular rendering of accounts.

• Collecting deposits towards the costs of the arbitration

• Processing the tribunals’ fees and expenses.

• Our transparent financial management of the case according to published guidelines provides legal representatives the ability to provide accurate cost projection, timescales, and costs for each stage or the arbitration process to their clients.

• We arrange all the logistics, facilities and services for hearings at state of the art premises in Maxwell Chambers which hosts 14 hearing rooms and 12 meeting rooms.

• We supervise and monitor the progress of the case. The momentum is not just dependent upon the cooperation of the parties.

• We scrutinise the arbitral award, thus enforcement problems are less likely.

• SIAC‘s administration fees are competitive in comparison with all the major international arbitration institutions. Click here to estimate your fees.

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Interim Relief in International Arbitration

INTERIM RELIEF IN INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION Steven Lim; Managing Partner, Singapore, Nabarro LLP 1. I will address in this short paper what standards and guidelines should be applied in determining interim relief in international arbitrations and whether there is any difference between the standards a tribunal and a national court might apply to this determination. ...

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Third-Party Funding In Arbitration: Neither A Menace Nor A Leveller, But An Inevitable Consequence of Financialization

Darren MayberryAirhart & Associates, Louisville, KY, USA Today, just about any product, service, or right may be priced, monetized, securitized, traded, assigned, or purchased. We might call this universal pricing phenomenon one of the defining features of our latest economic era, an era of financialization. In general, financialization refers to "the increasing dominance of...

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Third Party Funding in International Arbitration: A Slippery Slope or Levelling the Playing Field?

Angus Fei Ni Debevoise & Plimpton LLP “[I]n those times . . . a man would buy a weak claim, in hopes that power might convert it into a strong one, and that the sword of a baron, stalking into court with a rabble of retainers at his heels, might strike terror into the eyes of a judge upon the bench. At present, what cares an English judge for the swords of a hundred barons?...

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False Testimony in Arbitration: Incentives and Solutions

Adam RavivWilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLPIf I could change one thing about arbitration, I would make parties more accountable for presenting false testimony. Many a practitioner has witnessed perjured testimony in arbitration. And many a practitioner has likely been frustrated when those who testify falsely in a high-stakes proceeding face no consequences for doing so....

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The Emergency Arbitrator and Expedited Procedure in SIAC: A New Direction for Arbitration in Asia

In July 2010, the new SIAC Rules were promulgated which provided for two new and innovative provisions for parties: the emergency arbitrator and the expedited procedure. Both procedures have proven remarkably successful in providing parties with alternative means to obtain immediate relief and reduce time and costs in the resolution of their dispute. Emergency Arbitrator The e...

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The SIAC Emergency Arbitrator Experience

THE SIAC EMERGENCY ARBITRATOR EXPERIENCE Vivekananda N., Deputy Registrar & Head (South Asia), Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC); An earlier version of this article was published in the CDR Magazine. Parties rarely want to be engaged in an international dispute. People and companies want to get on with their business...

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SC Limits Scope of Public Policy in Foreign Arbitral Awards

SC LIMITS SCOPE OF PUBLIC POLICY IN FOREIGN ARBITRAL AWARDS Vyapak Desai, Partner, Nishith Desai Associates; Payel Chatterjee,  Nishith Desai Associates; Ashish Kabra, Nishith Desai Associates; “PATENT ILLEGALITY NOW NOT A SWORD ON ENFORCEMENT OF FOREIGN AWARDS”INTRODUCTION Recent judicial rulings are helping India to shed its ...

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To “Seat” or not to “Seat”: Art Thou Relevant !!

Nakul Dewan, Counsel, Allen & Gledhill LLP, Singapore | Advocate, India. IntroductionWilliam Shakespeare’s soliloquy from Hamlet is an apt expression for parties who end up with the wrong seat of arbitration, by either having failed to make a choice or making the wrong one. Two recent decisions from the highest courts in India and Sing...

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Derivatives Arbitration is on the Rise in Singapore

Kabir Singh, Counsel, Clifford Chance Asia; Matthew Brown, Associate, Clifford Chance Asia; Introduction The ISDA Annual General Meeting was hosted in Singapore in April 2013 and one of the hot topics discussed by delegates was the review by ISDA of its Master Agreement to include model arbitration clauses.Following an in-depth consultatio...

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Developments for Arbitration of financial Sector Disputes

Andrew Pullen, Counsel, Allen & Overy, Singapore1; Introduction Arbitration is indispensable to international commerce. A recent survey by Queen Mary, University of London recorded that arbitration is the preferred form of resolving international disputes for the majority of in-house counsel (52% of whom said it was their first choice).2...

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