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Overview
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Experience
Introduction
Philip is a practitioner in international arbitration and complex commercial disputes and regularly works with clients across the energy, infrastructure and natural resources sectors to resolve high-stakes commercial disputes.
Philip Chong has extensive experience in resolving complex commercial disputes and regularly advises clients on their most important contentious issues. He has a wealth of experience in resolving business critical matters for clients having focused for 30 years on international dispute resolution. He has dealt with disputes and managed proceedings in numerous jurisdictions throughout the world including all of the main arbitration rules and under a wide variety of arbitration seats. As well as arbitration, his experience covers litigation, mediations and expert determinations.
He has focused on the oil, gas, power and renewable energy sectors and has acted on numerous disputes relating to engineering and construction contracts, shareholder, private equity and completion account disputes. Philip has conducted international arbitrations involving oil, gas, power, minerals, rail projects, sports, investment partnerships, major infrastructure projects, and telecoms in Europe, the Middle East, China, Central Asia, South-east Asia, Africa, North America and the U.K.
Recognized in Legal 500's International Arbitration Hall of Fame, he has been ranked as a leading practitioner by Chambers UK for many years and included in the Legal 500's International Arbitration Powerlist. He is described in GAR as a “legal and strategic mastermind”. Chambers UK said: “He is a great strategist who is effective, practical and good to work with.” Legal 500 described him as “a standout partner, with an excellent reputation” and as “a tactically astute, thoughtful and heavy-hitting leader in London” and as "one of the leading oil and gas lawyers in the market".
- Major Oil and Gas Enterprise | Multi-billion dollar dispute against a global energy company in relation to a shareholders agreement governing their joint venture relationship in Latin America. (English Law, London seated, LCIA Rules).
- Major Sports Company | Acting in relation to disputes concerning shareholder agreements and corporate documentation in a matter critical to the continued viability of its business. (English Law, London seated, ICC Rules).
- An Oil Company | Acting in connection with a dispute over the termination of a contract to construct infrastructure for the development of an oil field in the Middle East. (Iraqi Law, Singapore seated, SIAC Rules).
- A Major Sport Organization | in a dispute concerning a long term sponsorship agreement. (Swiss Law, Zurich seated, Swiss Chamber of Commerce Rules).
- A Major International Engineering Company | in a dispute concerning a topside modules and key components for a floating production storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) for deployment on a significant offshore project. (English Law, Singapore seated, SIAC Rules).
- A Major European Chemicals Company | in a dispute relating to a gas processing plant. (English Law, Stockholm seated, Swedish Chamber of Commerce Rules).
- Central Asian Oil and Gas Company | Acting in connection with a dispute over a project relating to the construction of a jack-up drilling rig including claims for delays and variations and design responsibility. (English Law, London seated, ICC Rules).
- Oil Company | Pursuing a claim for an oil company in a dispute relating to the termination of a drilling services contract in respect of oil prospecting offshore Africa.
- Telecommunications Company | Advising a dispute concerning the performance of a telecommunications satellite.
- Norwegian Energy Company | In relation to disputes over the construction of an FPSO.
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