John Choong Editor & Author

Dr Michael J Moser is an international arbitrator, mediator and attorney-at-law. He is currently an arbitrator member of 20 Essex Street Chambers in London and also maintains offices in Hong Kong and Beijing. He is Chairman of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, Vice President of APRAG, a Court Member of the London Court of International Arbitration and a Board Member of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce. Dr Moser has been advising foreign clients doing business in the Asia-Pacific region and the People's Republic of China since 1980 and was the first foreign national to be appointed as an arbitrator in China. He has been rated as "the pre-eminent expert on China-related dispute matters" by PLC Which Lawyer? and Global Counsel Handbook for Dispute Resolution. Who's Who Legal has named him the "star pick" for arbitrator in Asia and "perhaps the best-known arbitration practitioner in the region". John Choong is a Senior Associate with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, based in Hong Kong. He has practised for many years in Hong Kong and Singapore, where he has been involved in a number of landmark commercial and treaty arbitrations in Asia, including several billion-dollar arbitrations, and in litigations up to the UK Privy Council. His matters have involved arbitrations under the major arbitration rules in a broad range of industries throughout Asia, including Hong Kong, Singapore, the PRC, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, Japan, Vietnam, Brunei and Mongolia. John is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute and Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators, and is admitted in England and Wales, Hong Kong and Singapore.