Cameron Sim
International Counsel, Debevoise & Plimpton
[email protected]Cameron Sim is an international counsel at Debevoise & Plimpton, based in Hong Kong. He specialises in international arbitration and complex crossborder disputes across all industries, with a focus on Asia-related matters. He is admitted in New York, Hong Kong, England and Wales, and Australia.
Mr Sim is recommended for arbitration in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, which notes his ‘outstanding legal and commercial knowledge’, and describes him as ‘excellent’ and a ‘stand-out star’. He is also ranked by Who’s Who Legal as a National Leader for arbitration in mainland China and Hong Kong, and as a Global Future Leader. He is noted to be ‘a superb and unrelenting advocate’ and ‘a force to be reckoned with’. Mr Sim is also recognised as a Rising Star by the Euromoney Legal Media Group.
Mr Sim is the author of Emergency Arbitration (Oxford University Press, 2021), the first-ever treatise on the subject. Prior to his arbitration career, he clerked for the President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, and obtained first-class degrees in law from the University of Oxford, United Kingdom and the University of Melbourne, Australia.