I am delighted to be ranked in the inaugural Legal 500 Powerlist - Arbitration - Hong Kong. 

"This year, we highlight 410 partners and 281 non-partners for their outstanding arbitration and counsel work across a broad range of international proceedings.

The Legal Marketplace Analysis only covers a selection of particularly highly regarded individuals. 

Non-Partners | Asia-Pacific

Most highly regarded

Elizabeth Chan - Allen & Overy Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Leading individuals

Hong Kong

The 'superb' Elizabeth Chan at Allen & Overy is a distinguished practitioner with a wealth of experience, known as a 'first-class and sharp practitioner' who is 'able to tackle extremely complex technical issues' while 'never leaving a stone unturned'" 

Congratulations and a huge thank you to Ema Vidak Gojković, Elena Gutiérrez García de Cortázar, Arjun Solanki and Yoshie Concha Takeshita for launching MUTE OFF Thursdays' Compendium of Unicorns - A Global Guide to Women Arbitrators.

In the words of the Compendium's Creators:

Why unicorns? A few years ago, one highly prominent woman arbitrator attended a conference. A male attendee remarked that he would appoint more women as arbitrators, but they just did not exist. He said: “It’s like finding a unicorn.”

Embracing that story with humor and grace, the woman arbitrator – Lucy Greenwood – embarked on a mission to send to women arbitrators around the globe a unicorn brooch, which they today wear as a token of good-natured defiance and solidarity.

The story would be amusing if the myth it reflects were not so pervasive. Many people believe we have a supply problem - not enough qualified women. But the sheer number of women in this Compendium demonstrates that there are plenty of qualified women arbitrators.

And this Compendium is not even comprehensive. There are many more qualified women arbitrators than appear in this inaugural edition of the Compendium, who we hope to feature in future editions. To be featured next year, please contact the Mute Off Thursdays’ chairs.

Our goal with the Compendium is not only to disprove the unicorn myth. We also want to make it easier to identify and appoint qualified women arbitrators. To that end, this Compendium is extremely easy to use: (i) it contains a list of the included women arbitrators; (ii) it provides indices which categorize the arbitrators by criteria such as experience (number of cases handled), industry and geographical focus; and (iii) it appends all 176 individual arbitrator questionnaires. 

Download your e-copy here: https://lnkd.in/eZPxPHrn

With thanks to David Samuels and his team at GAR – Global Arbitration Review, and Jeffery Commission and his team at Burford Capital, the Compendium will also be available online on GAR and published in 1,500 copies and distributed globally.

We stood on the shoulders of giants with this project: the belief that diversity matters and that we as a community must do more to create equal opportunities for everyone despite their race, gender, and other characteristics is now more wide-spread than ever before, and that is no coincidence. The momentum was built thanks to the hard work and passion of the amazing people in our community, including ArbitralWomen, YAWP - Young ArbitralWomen Practitioners, ERA Pledge and Young Practitioners' Subcommittee - ERA Pledge, ICCA International Council for Commercial Arbitration Diversity reports, and many individuals, groups, arbitration institutions and organizations who reflect the key values of equality and inclusion in their practice of law.

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Last but not least, thank you Ema Vidak Gojković, for encouraging me to put my name forward and for the honour of being included in this Compendium. 

Thank you very much to all the angels who generously nominated me to be listed in The Legal 500 (Legalease)'s Private Practice PowerList 2022 Arbitration | United Kingdom this year.

I'm delighted for this first appearance alongside my Allen & Overy colleagues, Mark Levy KC, David Herlihy and Naomi Briercliffe - from whom (and all the others in our global arbitration team) I have so much to learn.

It is a privilege to be a lawyer - especially now in my city of birth, HK; to have the chance to act as trusted adviser to my clients; and to walk in my mother's footsteps. Fun fact: I rocked in her tummy when she attended law school where my father-in-law was the then Dean!

My sincere congratulations also to friends, peers and "idols!" in this year's Powerlist. As a friend once said, while these rankings are not conclusive of talent in arbitration, I'm very grateful to be recognised and I also wish to celebrate all those not or not yet listed for all the hard work we all put in to make our arbitration community the vibrant, diverse and collegial one it is.

The Legal 500 Private Practice Powerlists are here: https://lnkd.in/eGTCqqRc.

The Arbitration Powerlist is here: https://lnkd.in/eccun75Y. 

I am honoured to join the company of esteemed #internationalarbitration colleagues as a Future Leader of Who's Who Legal - Arbitration 2022.

I am grateful to my clients, colleagues and peers for their recognition and vote of confidence.

One of the most meaningful relationships I built in my counsel work is with a client for one of my cases. This experience reminds me of the very human side of the work that we do as arbitration lawyers. This client wrote that he was “especially grateful for Elizabeth’s firm, courageous while diplomatic and supportive manner of engagement and effective influence, always demonstrating great empathy”. I will aspire to be deserving of these words.

Congratulations to the many outstanding leaders listed at all levels in the 2022 WWL Arbitration Guide.

And to echo the words of ArbitralWomen’s President, Dana MacGrath: congratulations to everyone in the arbitration community who contributes to making arbitration a rewarding and increasingly diverse practice area. 

The ROAP Finals on 11 December 2020 brought to a close the inaugural editions of our advanced remote oral advocacy and cross-examination courses, by featuring the most persuasive and skilled participants on each course: Vanessa Moracchini and Trisha Mitra, with experts Nikki Coles and Vladimir Nefediev from the cross-examination course, and Clàudia Baró Huelmo, Elizabeth (“Lizzie”) Chan, Heather Clark and Camilla Gambarini from the oral submissions course.

The finalists were assessed by a panel of world-class arbitrators consisting of The Honorable Charles N. Brower (President), Wendy Miles QC and Professor Stephan W. Schill (short bios below).

Introductory and closing remarks were delivered respectively by Hafez Virjee, President of Delos, and Reza Mohtashami QC, Chair of the ROAP Steering Committee. This inaugural ROAP edition was dedicated to the late Professor David D. Caron. Find out more about him below.

For a write-up of the ROAP 2020 Finals, see Elizabeth Chan and Anna Jermak, “Dispute Resolution’s Inaugural Remote Oral Advocacy Programme Finals, on 11 December 2020, by Webinar” (ArbitralWomen Newsletter, Issue 44 p. 32, February 2021).

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