John is a full-time independent arbitrator, acting out of the Singapore-based company - Champion Resolutions Pte Ltd. He specializes in international commercial arbitration, with a particular focus on shipping, trade/commodities, insurance/reinsurance, as well as upstream and downstream oil and gas, renewable energy, and onshore/offshore construction. He has been based in Singapore since 1996, and has arbitration experience in connection with most countries in the region, as well as those countries further afield that have interests here. John has also acted as mediator on half a dozen disputes, mainly involving maritime and/or insurance issues.
Before becoming an independent arbitrator at the end of 2012, John first became acquainted with London maritime and commercial/insurance arbitration, from 1992 as an article clerk at HFW. He was transferred into the Singapore office in 1996, making partnership in 2001. In 2006 John was invited to lead and develop Clyde & Co’s Singapore-based Southeast Asian regional disputes practice (other than aviation),and spent the next six years doing this.
Time spent at these two leading maritime dispute firms was an instructive adventure. Whilst in practice John was regularly recommended by the leading legal directories including Chambers Global, Legal 500, Who’s Who Legal, and the Euromoney guide to the world’s leading lawyers.