Barrister: 2013 (Hong Kong)
Solicitor: 2011 – 2012 (Hong Kong); 2023 to present (England & Wales - non-practising)
Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb)
Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators (FHKIArb)
Fellow of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration
Registered Foreign Lawyer, Singapore International Commercial Court
List of Arbitrators of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC)
Panel of Arbitrators (7th Cohort), Shanghai Arbitration Commission
Panel of Arbitrators, Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration
Roster of Arbitrators, Cayman International Mediation & Arbitration Centre (CI-MAC)
List of Arbitrators, Hong Kong Bar Association
Pool of Arbitrators, The Court of Arbitration for Art (CAfA), The Hague
Panel of Arbitrators, Chinese Arbitration Association, Taipei
Panel of Arbitrators, eBRAM International Online Dispute Resolution Centre
Panel of Arbitrators, Business Arbitration Scheme, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Education
- BBA (Law) (First Class Honours), University of Hong Kong
- LLB (First Class Honours), University of Hong Kong
- LLM (Corporate and Commercial Law), London School of Economics and Political Science
- PCLL, University of Hong Kong
Contact
| Email: | valchow@templechambers.com |
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| Tel: | (+852) 2523 2003 |
Secretary
| Name: | Marian Lau |
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| Email: | marian@templechambers.com |
| Tel: | (+852) 2248 1873 |
mentions
languages
Chinese (Putonghua and Cantonese) and EnglishAppointments And Public Office
Other
- Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Legal Professional Examination (2023)
Publications and Speaking Engagements
- 2023-2024: Speaker, Advocacy Skills and Cross-examination in International Arbitration, Peking University (with Jern-Fei Ng KC)
- 2020-2021: Contributor, Abstracts of cases relating to arbitration prepared for the Supreme People’s Court of The PRC and The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) (commissioned by HKIArb and the Department of Justice of HKSAR)
- 2020: Contributor, Atkin’s Court Forms Hong Kong Issue 73 (Arbitration)
- 2019: Speaker, A Practitioner's Perspective on Due Process Paranoia, Conference on Fundamental Aspects of International Dispute Resolution (Keio University Law School, Tokyo)
- 2018: Speaker, Seminar on Document Disclosure in International Arbitration (Beijing Arbitration Commission and Beijing International Arbitration Centre, Beijing) (with Rimsky Yuen SC)
Further information
- 2021: Trainer, International Commercial Arbitration and PRC Arbitration Training Programme, HKIArb
- 2019: Lecturer (non-clinical) in Private International Law, the University of Hong Kong
- 2017: External Evaluator (Master’s Degrees), School of Transnational Law, Peking University
- 2016: Lecturer (non-clinical) in Contract Law, the University of Hong Kong
- 2014: Honorary Lecturer, the University of Hong Kong
Profile
Val is a practicing barrister who regularly acts in international commercial arbitrations and has advised on various aspects (such as document disclosure, jurisdictional challenge and interim relief) in arbitrations seated in various APEC jurisdictions, including Hong Kong, Mainland China, Singapore and Japan. Val has been named as a Leading Junior Barrister for Commercial Disputes by The Legal 500. He has been admitted to a number of arbitrator panels of local and international arbitral institutions and has accepted appointments as arbitrator.
Before being called to the Hong Kong Bar in 2013, Val was a judicial assistant to the Court of Appeal and the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong from 2011 to 2012 where he worked with appellate judges on a variety of appeals. Prior to that, he trained as a solicitor at Linklaters and qualified in its capital markets team, where he advised on various debt, equity and equity-linked transactions.
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