Speakers

Thematic Session
Legal Risk Management: Key to International Trade and Investment

Mr Robert S. Pé
Council Member, Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre

Robert S. Pé is an equity partner of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP based in the firm’s Hong Kong office. He focuses his practice on international commercial dispute resolution, including high-value international arbitrations in Hong Kong, London and Singapore under various rules including the HKIAC’s Administered Arbitration Rules, the ICC Rules, SIAC’s Arbitration Rules and the UNCITRAL Rules. He also accepts appointment as arbitrator on a selective basis and has decided multiple disputes arising from private equity investments in Asia.

Mr. Pé is consistently ranked as a leading lawyer in his fields of practice. Chambers Asia Pacific describes him as “much in demand” and “well prepared, creative and highly effective”. Legal 500 Asia Pacific notes that he is “highly respected” and “a major figure in Asia-based arbitrations”. Benchmark Asia-Pacific indicates that “top arbitrators rave about him.”

Mr. Pé is of Anglo-Myanmar heritage and serves as senior adviser on legal affairs to Burmese/Myanmar opposition leader and Nobel laureate, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. He gained his M.B.A. from the London Business School in 2002 and his LL.B. from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1990.