International Arbitration

Arbitration is one of the core practices at Dauntless Law Chambers. We have expertise in a wide range of industries and are dedicated to delivering efficient, strategic and result-driven solutions in resolving both international and domestic arbitral disputes for our clients in Singapore and globally. Our team is skilled in handling institutional and ad-hoc disputes that involve high-value claims, multi-jurisdictional issues and complex legal principles. We advise clients at every stage of the arbitral process, from arbitration clause drafting and pre-dispute strategy formulation, to post-award enforcement and challenges to arbitral awards.

Some of our team’s successful arbitration cases include:

• An international arbitration for several tens of millions of USD in damages and legal costs between a global car manufacturer and its national sales company in a large Asian country. The claim was for wrongful termination, involving complex issues of materiality of breaches, damage to reputation, good faith obligations and assessment of damages. As lead arbitration counsel, we coordinated and led a team which included law firms from Japan and India as well as expert witnesses from the United States, England, Japan and India. We defeated an opposing team of lawyers comprising a large Japanese law firm and a “magic circle” English law firm led by a Queen’s Counsel.
• A successful defence and enforcement of a USD 500 million arbitration award at the Singapore High Court and Court of Appeal against setting aside proceedings, on behalf of a Japanese pharmaceuticals conglomerate against Indian sellers. In both the High Court and Court of Appeal, our team defeated opposing teams of lawyers lead by local Senior Counsel.
• A multi-million dollar international arbitration between a prestigious South Korean cosmetics company and its Chinese joint-venture partner in a claim for rescission of contract, involving issues of misrepresentation, conspiracy and force majeure as well as jurisdictional issues of the effect of assignments and mergers on arbitration clauses.
• A multi-million dollar SIAC arbitration governed by English law on behalf of a South Korean party against an Indonesian party on a coal supply and shipment contract involving issues of force majeure, implied terms and misdelivery / short delivery due to poor quality of goods.