Colin Ong QC Dr Colin Ong Legal Services

Dr Colin Ong, QC is a Chartered Arbitrator and Queen's Counsel at 36 Stone (London); and Counsel at Eldan Law LLP(Singapore). He has over 28 years of experience as lead counsel and arbitrator. He is a Civil Law professor, and known for his experiences in handling complex legal issues in arbitrations governed under Civil law. He actively regularly leads many international teams as well as sits as arbitrator across 7 main countries. His practice areas include banking/finance; infrastructure projects(airports/bridges/pipe- lines/ports/railways and roads), entertainment industries, insurance, energy disputes(coal mining/supply disputes/production sharing contracts/electricity supply/gas and oil contracts), information technology, insolvency shipping, intellectual property(bank ATMs/computing/software licensing/games software/reverse engineering); insurance, manufacturing issues (automobile parts/military equipment/pharmaceutical/software), Post-M&A disputes; telecoms, technology transfer and general commercial trade related matters. He is the first ASEAN national practitioner lawyer to be appointed English Queen's Counsel and also to be elected Master of the Bench (Inner Temple).

He has sat as arbitrator or acted as counsel in over 380 arbitrations governed under civil and common law in commercial disputes and investment disputes governed under most institutional rules including AAA/BANI/CIETAC/HKIAC/ICC/ICDR/KCAB/KLRCA/LCIA/LMAA /OIC/SIAC/SCMA/TAI/UNCITRAL and WIPO rules under diverse applicable laws including Chinese/English/Hong Kong/Indian/ Indonesian/Japanese/Kazakh/Korean/Malaysian/New York/Philippine/ Singapore/Thai/Swiss and Vietnamese law. Ranked as Thought Leader by Who's Who Legal("WWL") in Arbitration/Construction and Litigation. Author of arbitration publications with 2 books listed as End-note 1 reference books in CIArb Practice Guidelines (Costs and Interim Measures). Author of texts on advocacy including chapter one for the GAR Guide to Advocacy. Listed as arbitrator in over 25 international arbitration panels (including PRIME and WIPO).

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 holds LLB (Sheffield)/LLM/PhD (Queen Mary) /FCIArb/ FMIArb/ FSIArb/ DiplCArb/ Chartered Arbitrator (CIArb) and Chartered Arbitrator (IDRRMI, HK).

President(AABD, Brunei); Chairman, International Advisory Board(THAC, Thailand); Advisory Council(BANI, Indonesia); Appointing Council, Chinese-European Arbitration Centre (CEAC, Germany); Council Member, HKCICA(Hong Kong); Chair, Advisory Board (JIIART, Japan); Chairman, Regional Arbitral Institutes Forum; Co-Chair, IBA APAG; Vice-President, APRAG; and Advisor, China-ASEAN Legal Research Center; He was a GAR 45 under 45; member of ICC Commission on Arbitration (2020); ICCA-Queen Mary Task Force on Third-Party Funding and outgoing Vice Chair(Arbitration), Inter Pacific Bar Association. WWL Arbitration 2020 describes him as "a staple of the international arbitration field, and extensive recommendations around the world for his strong work as arbitrator, also winning widespread plaudits for his work as lead counsel in both civil and common law matters. WWL Banking 2020:- "wins widespread praise for his outstanding work on high-value banking disputes.".

Legal 500(London Bar International Arbitrators 2021):- "on top of material and the law, and experienced in both common and civil law". Legal 500 English Bar (Asia-Pacific) Commercial 2021:-"A superb tactician with brilliant strategies who is exceptionally adept at thinking out of the box." Languages include Bahasa Indonesia/Malay (written awards), Chinese(fluent), and English(written awards).