"Lauded by market sources for his 'in-depth knowledge and experience of arbitration law and procedure'. He is a highly sought-after arbitrator and mediator, experienced in handling complex cross-border disputes."
Chambers & Partners
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Luke Diebelius
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Lawrence Boo is one of Singapore’s leading international arbitrators, having sat as arbitrator in more than 300 cases and written numerous awards.
His cases included those administered by the ICSID, ICC, CIETAC, SIAC, LCIA, HKIAC, AAA, KLRCA, BANI, as well as ad hoc arbitrations. Many of his recent cases involve disputes arising from mergers/acquisitions, oil/gas and energy resources, pharmaceuticals, infrastructure developments and international trade.
Boo has consistently been described by Chambers’ Asia-Pacific in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 and ranked as one of Asia’s most “in demand” “leading individuals” in arbitration “who always inspires confidence in arbitration”, as one who “handles a high volume of cases in a time-efficient manner” and “much sought after for his “no-nonsense approach and academic distinction”.
He is the author of Halsbury’s Laws of Singapore Volume 2 – Arbitration (Lexis-Nexis 2020 re-issue) and one of the co-authors of UNCITRAL Digest on the Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration (UN July 2012). He leads in the teaching of international commercial arbitration at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore since 1994. He also teaches at Bond University, Australia.
Chairing an ad hoc tribunal in an arbitration between a consortium of international oil companies and an African state oil company in dispute over the State’s rights to lift oil for tax, and the IOC’s rights to do so for capital and investment expenses, etc. with claims exceeding s $1.3 billion. (Completed 2015).
Chairing an ICC tribunal in disputes between new and former shareholders arising out of an acquisition of an Indian pharmaceutical company by a Japanese commercial house. Issues concerned post-acquisition discovery of pre-acquisition fraudulent transactions and other misdemeanours exposing the company to statutory fines imposed by US authorities of $500 million for which the claimants sought damages of up to $2.5 billion. (Completed 2016).
Chairing an ad hoc arbitration between a consortium of international and national oil companies and an Asian state over the rights to gas migrated from an adjacent bloc, with complicated technical details of gas movements, volumetric calculations and issues of sovereign rights over undersea resources. Claims exceeded $1.7 billion. (Completed 2018).
Chairing an LCIA arbitration involving a foreign investment fund taking a minority equity stake in an Indian company together with a majority stake in the preference shares of the company with conversion rights and a “put option” priced at a guaranteed internal rate of return. Case involved difficult issues of Indian exchange control and legality of exercising put options giving guaranteed returns. Amount at stake was about $250 million. (Completed 2018).
Standard Chartered Bank (HK) v Republic of Tanzania (ARB 15/41)
Chairing an ICSID tribunal. (Completed 2019).
Chairing an ad hoc tribunal in an arbitration between a consortium of international oil companies and an African state oil company in dispute over the State’s rights to lift oil for tax, and the IOC’s rights to do so for capital and investment expenses, etc. with claims exceeding s $1.3 billion. (Completed 2015).
Chairing an ICC tribunal in disputes between new and former shareholders arising out of an acquisition of an Indian pharmaceutical company by a Japanese commercial house. Issues concerned post-acquisition discovery of pre-acquisition fraudulent transactions and other misdemeanours exposing the company to statutory fines imposed by US authorities of $500 million for which the claimants sought damages of up to $2.5 billion. (Completed 2016).
Chairing an ad hoc arbitration between a consortium of international and national oil companies and an Asian state over the rights to gas migrated from an adjacent bloc, with complicated technical details of gas movements, volumetric calculations and issues of sovereign rights over undersea resources. Claims exceeded $1.7 billion. (Completed 2018).
Chairing an LCIA arbitration involving a foreign investment fund taking a minority equity stake in an Indian company together with a majority stake in the preference shares of the company with conversion rights and a “put option” priced at a guaranteed internal rate of return. Case involved difficult issues of Indian exchange control and legality of exercising put options giving guaranteed returns. Amount at stake was about $250 million. (Completed 2018).
Standard Chartered Bank (HK) v Republic of Tanzania (ARB 15/41)
Chairing an ICSID tribunal. (Completed 2019).
Chairing an HKIAC bi-lingual arbitration involving an US investment fund acquiring a stake in a Chinese real estate development company, for a project in China, where the investors were given a minimum rate of return following a moratorium and upon certain events occurring. Issues of change of foreign investment law, foreign exchange control and policies and parallel ‘offshore agreements’ all made the process much involved and complicated. Stakes involved was about $200 million. (Completed October 2020).
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Four Fountain Court members and seven door tenants have been recognised by Chambers…
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Alex Taylor
Senior Clerk
+44 (0)20 7842 3706
Click here to email
Luke Diebelius
Team Leader
+44 (0)20 7842 3711
Click here to email
Matthew Evans
Team Leader's Assistant
+44 (0)20 7842 3707
Click here to email
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