Recently, the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (SCIA) issued the “Announcement of the Council of the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration on the New Roster of Arbitrators”, and Mr. Wang Chunjun, a senior partner of King&Capital Law Firm, has been successfully selected by virtue of his professionalism and rich experience in dispute resolution in the field of construction engineering.
Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (also known as South China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area International Arbitration Center, Shenzhen Arbitration Commission, formerly known as China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission, South China Branch, China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission, Shenzhen Branch, or in English, “SCIA”) was founded in 1983 as the first arbitration court in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao. It is the first arbitration institution in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and is a product of China's reform and opening up, the construction of special economic zones, and the cooperation between the Mainland, Hong Kong and Macao.
Pioneering the hiring of foreign arbitrators in 1984, the recognition and enforcement of Chinese arbitral awards outside China in accordance with the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (i.e., the New York Convention) in 1989, the management model of a statutory body and the corporate governance mechanism centered on an internationalized Board of Governors in 2012, and the rules and arrangements for accepting investment arbitration by Chinese arbitral institutions in 2016. In 2018, SCIA set a precedent for the merger of arbitration institutions in China (Shenzhen Arbitration Commission was merged into SCIA), and in 2021, SCIA will add the name of “Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao International Arbitration Center of the Greater Bay Area” in accordance with the requirements of the Central Government to deepen the cooperation with Hong Kong and Macao, and to build a globally oriented international arbitration center.
Up to now, the parties to SCIA arbitration and conciliation cover 142 countries and regions, and the arbitrators cover 114 countries and regions. In 2023, the total amount in dispute of the cases received by SCIA will be RMB 138.3 billion yuan, and the highest amount of international commercial arbitration cases will be more than RMB 25 billion yuan.
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