Mitchell Dearness

Focusing on helping clients resolve complex cross-border commercial disputes in the infrastructure, energy and mining sectors, Mitch Dearness has a broad range of experience acting for clients in arbitration proceedings conducted under all major institutional rules, as well as in pure ad hoc and investment treaty cases. He has advised on disputes involving the laws of many different Asian jurisdictions including Singapore, the Philippines, mainland China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Nepal, Brunei and Myanmar, among others such as Nevada (United States), France, the United Kingdom and various Australian jurisdictions.Mr Dearness’ practice also involves a significant advisory component. He works closely with colleagues in front-end transactional teams on dispute avoidance and risk mitigation strategies. His experience includes advising commercial entities, state-owned enterprises and states on dispute avoidance, investment structuring and sovereign immunity issues, among other dispute-related aspects of transactional work.