Colin Ong KC

Queen’s Counsel at 36 Stone; Counsel at Eldan Law LLP (Singapore); Senior Partner, Dr Colin Ong Legal Services (Brunei)

Dr. Colin Ong is a leading international arbitrator and lead counsel who has broad experience in diverse areas (including banking/energy disputes/information technology/infrastructure/intellectual property/investor-state disputes and shipping). Extensive commercial arbitration and court experience. Extensive experience as presiding or co-arbitrator in civil law and common law jurisdictions in areas of practice including: construction; insurance disputes; intellectual property; mining and minerals disputes; Considerable experience as counsel in acting against and also for governments; state owned enterprises; multinationals in resolving complex large quantum disputes. Arbitrator and/or acted as counsel in arbitrations including AAA, BANI, CIETAC, ICC, KCAB, KLRCA, LCIA, LMAA, SIAC, SCMA, TAI, UNCITRAL, and WIPO rules

• Call: 1991 QC: 2017
• 36 Stone, London – Arbitrator and Queen’s Counsel; Counsel, Eldan Law LLP (Singapore); Arbitrator and Barrister, Dr Colin Ong Legal Services (Brunei)
• Master of the Bench of the Inner Temple (2010)
• Previously member of other leading London Barristers Chambers (1992-2014)
• President / Chairman of various international groups including: Arbitration Association Brunei Darussalam (AABD), Brunei; Advisory Board of Japan Institute of International Arbitration Research and Training (JIIART Hong Kong Centre of International Commercial Arbitration, Council Member (HKCICA); Regional Arbitral Institutes Forum, President (RAIF) (2019 to 2021); Chinese-European Arbitration Centre, Hamburg, Germany (CEAC) Appointing Council; Thailand Arbitration Center; Chairman International Advisory Board (THAC), Thailand;
• International Commercial Expert Committee of the China International Commercial Court
• Co-Chair of IBA APAG
• Vice Chair of various international groups including: Asia Pacific Regional Arbitration Group (APRAG), London; Inter Pacific Bar Association, Japan – Arbitration Committee (2016 – 2020); International Bar Association, London – Vice Chair, Arbitration Committee (2009 – 2011)
• Member of various international groups including: ICC Commission on Arbitration (Task Force on the New York Convention); 2020 ICC Commission (Task force on ADR and Arbitration); China – ASEAN Legal Research Center, China; Indonesian National Board of Arbitration (BANI), Indonesia – Advisory Governing Council. (2009 – 2020); ICCA-Queen Mary Task Force Costs, London (2014 – 2018); Cambodian National Commercial Arbitration Centre (NCAC), Cambodia -Appointing Council (2010 – 2017); ASEAN Secretariat, Indonesia – Panel Member (nominee of Brunei Darussalam) (2009 – 2013); London Court of International Arbitration, London – Vice President, Asia Pacific Users Council (2010 – 2012);ASEAN Protocol on Enhanced Dispute Settlement Mechanism – Panel Member (nominee of Brunei Darussalam) (2005 – 2009)
• Academy of International Dispute Resolution – Adjunct Professor of Law, 2019 – Present
• Sometime Visiting Law Professor at: Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia; Universitas Padjajaran Indonesia, Indonesia; City University of Hong Kong; University of Hong Kong; Queen Mary, University of London; National University Singapore; King’s College, University of London; Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia; University of Malaya
• Malaysian Standard Form of Building Contracts (PAM 2006), Malaysia – Core Drafter 2006
• ASEAN Centre for Energy, ASEAN, Jakarta – Former Principal Legal Consultant 2002 – 2003

Publications:

Correspondent Editorial Board/Author of Journals:

Current editorial board of Arbitration (Journal of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators); Butterworths Journal of International Banking & Financial Law; China-ASEAN Law Review; Indonesia Arbitration Quarterly; Maritime Risk International.

Recent books and international loose leafs (excluding articles):

• Res Judicata in Investment Treaty Arbitration Review (2019).
• Case Strategy chapter in The Guide to Advocacy (GAR) (2017 to 2019);
• Take the Witness Chapter: Cross-Examination in International Arbitration (Juris 2010 and 2019);
• Chapter in Foreign Judgments (Garb & Lew, Kluwer 2005; 2014 and 2019);
• Challenges of Arbitrators in Investment Treaty Arbitration (Law Reviews 3 Ed 2018);
• Security for Costs chapter, Law & Practice of Injunctions in Singapore (Sweet & Maxwell 2017);
• Chapter on Bifurcation in The Investment Treaty Arbitration Review (2016 and 2017)

LLB (Hons) University of Sheffield; LLM (University of London); Ph.D in Law (Queen Mary, London); Diploma in International Arbitration (CIArb); Chartered Arbitrator (CIArb); Chartered Arbitrator (IDRRMI, HK); Fellow, Chartered Institute Of Arbitrators; Fellow, Singapore Institute of Arbitrators; Fellow, Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators; Senior International Mediation Expert (IDRRMI).