Colin Ong QC Dr Colin Ong Legal Services

Dr Colin Ong QC is a member of the Brunei, English and Singapore Bars. He is highly experienced as lead counsel and arbitrator in international commercial disputes and is well known for his work in areas including banking and finance, construction and infrastructure projects (airports, bridges, pipe-lines; ports; roads), insurance, energy disputes (coal mining and supply disputes, production sharing contracts, electricity supply, gas contracts and oil exploration joint ventures), information technology, insolvency shipping, telecoms, technology transfer, and general commercial trade related matters. He has acted as counsel in many arbitrations governed under civil law as well as under common law. Dr. Ong is the first ASEAN national lawyer to have been appointed Queen's Counsel. In 2010, he became the first non head of state or senior judge from ASEAN to be elected as a Master of the Bench of the Inner Temple.

As Arbitrator, Dr Ong has sat in numerous commercial and ad hoc investor state disputes governed under most institutional rules including AAA, BANI, CIETAC, HKIAC, ICC, ICDR, KLRCA, LCIA, LMAA, SIAC, TAI, UNCITRAL and WIPO rules under diverse applicable laws including English, Indian, Indonesian, Malaysian, Hong Kong, PRC, Singapore and Thai law. He regularly hears cases conducted in Bahasa Indonesia and governed under Indonesian law. He also handles PRC law governed arbitrations and hear oral evidence in Mandarin Chinese. He is author of several legal texts including chapters on advocacy and cross-examination. He is co-author of Costs in International Arbitration (Lexis Nexis). He is a Chartered Arbitrator and holds LLB (Sheffield), LLM, PhD (Queen Mary), FCIArb, FMIArb, FSIArb and DiplCArb.

At the 2016 GAR Awards, the split decisions in PT Perusahaan Gas Negara v CRW [2015] SGCA 30, where he was lead counsel, were named runner up most important decision of 2015. He was lead counsel in an earlier arbitration which led to amendments to the 1999 FIDIC Form Contracts (http://fidic.org/node/1615)

He is a visiting professor of law and has been visiting professor at both civil and common law jurisdictions including University of Hong Kong; National University of Malaysia (UKM), National University of Singapore, University of Malaya, Kings College (London), Universitas Indonesia, Padjajaran University (Indonesia) and Queen Mary, University of London. He has given expert evidence under the Brunei/ /Indian Contracts Acts and Specific Relief Acts.

He is president of Arbitration Association Brunei Darussalam; advisory member of China-ASEAN Legal Research Centre; vice president of APRAG; Advisor Governing Board, BANI; Advisory Committee, PCERA and board member of Cambodia NCAC. He was a GAR 45 under 45. He is a member of ICC Commission on Arbitration; Vice President, APRAG; ICCA-Queen Mary Task Force on Third-Party Funding and Vice Chair (Arbitration), Inter Pacific Bar Association. He is recognised in international legal directories including Who's Who Legal: Thought Leaders - Arbitration.