Finance and Investment Arbitration Workshop

Financial disputes demand precision, structural clarity, and strategic forum selection. In banking and investment transactions, arbitration clauses are often embedded within complex financing documentation long before disputes arise.
When enforcement, default, regulatory scrutiny, or cross-border exposure emerges, the strength of those drafting decisions becomes critical.
This executive workshop provides a structured and practical examination of arbitration in the financial sector, focusing on banking facilities, project finance arrangements, fintech operations, and institutional enforcement mechanisms.
Designed for professionals operating in high-value financial transactions, the programme bridges contractual architecture with dispute execution strategy.
Participants Will Gain Insight Into
- Arbitration of banking loans and project finance agreements
- Structuring effective dispute resolution clauses in financial contracts
- Practical guide to financial-sector arbitration mechanisms
- Fintech and digital payment disputes
- Case study analysis: Indonesian banking arbitration compared with international arbitration clauses
Who Should Attend
This workshop is structured for senior professionals managing financial and investment risk, including:
- Banking legal and compliance teams
- Fund managers and investment professionals
- Insurance and reinsurance specialists
- Arbitration lawyers handling complex financial and investment contracts
Meet the Facilitators
Grace Cheng, SFBiArb
Grace Cheng is an English barrister, a Hong Kong solicitor, and a member of the Bar of the British Virgin Islands. She also holds rights of audience before the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC), the DIFC Courts (Dubai), and the AIFC Court (Kazakhstan).
Recognised by Chambers and Partners in International Arbitration and named a Future Leader in Arbitration by Lexology Index, Grace is widely recognised for her expertise in complex cross-border commercial disputes. Fluent in English, Cantonese, and Mandarin, she regularly advises governments, FTSE 100 companies, multinational corporations, and high-net-worth individuals. Her experience includes representing a company ultimately owned by one of the world's largest financial services groups in a SIAC arbitration valued at more than SGD 400 million.
As an experienced neutral, Grace has received more than 80 appointments as an arbitrator, adjudicator, and expert under the rules of the ICC, LCIA, SIAC, HKIAC, DIAC, AIAC, and SCCA, involving disputes governed by the laws of England and Wales, Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai, Malaysia, and Saudi Arabia.
Grace graduated with First Class Honours from the London School of Economics (LSE) and earned a Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) from the University of Oxford. She has taught law at the University of Oxford, King's College London, and universities in Taiwan. Prior to joining the Bar, she practised at Slaughter and May before serving as Judicial Assistant to the Judge in Charge of the Commercial Court.
Kim M. Rooney SFBiAm
BIAMC Arbitration & Mediation Panellist and Senior Fellow
International Arbitrator, Hong Kong Barrister and Mediator, Member of Rede Chambers
The Legal 500's Asia Pacific Regional International Arbitration Guide 2025 ranked Kim Rooney in Tier 1 of "Leading Arbitrators." She was recognized in 2025 as a "Global Elite Thought Leader – Client Choice" by Lexology (formerly Who's Who Legal), which describes her as "a distinguished barrister and international arbitrator with a great reputation," frequently sought for complex expedited proceedings. Lexology's Mainland China, Hong Kong SAR and Macao SAR – Arbitration guide adds: "Kim is highly analytical, diligent and user friendly" and "one of the best and well prepared arbitrators on the circuit."
Kim is a Hong Kong barrister, international arbitrator and mediator practising from Rede Chambers, admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales and as a barrister and solicitor in Western Australia. She has practised in Hong Kong since July 1990, beginning at Baker & McKenzie before joining White & Case, later becoming a partner and heading the firm's Asian dispute resolution practice, before leaving to join the Bar in 2009. A member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration until 2024, her standing as a neutral is consistently recognised in Who's Who Legal Arbitration for her "rigorous intellect," with parties "left with total confidence" in her command of a case.
Kim's practice centres on serving as chair, presiding arbitrator, co-arbitrator, sole arbitrator and emergency arbitrator in complex, high-value disputes governed by civil and common law and international conventions, with particular depth in banking and financial disputes involving global banks and regulated institutions, alongside aviation, construction and infrastructure, energy, investment and trade, and technology. She sits on the arbitrator panels of AAA/ICDR, AIAC, CIETAC, HKIAC, JCAA, KCAB International, SCIA, SIAC and the Hague Court of Arbitration for Aviation, and is an HKMAAL and CEDR accredited mediator.
Beyond her arbitral practice, Kim chaired the Hong Kong Law Reform Commission's Subcommittee on Third Party Funding for Arbitration, co-drafting the legislation that introduced third-party funding of arbitration in Hong Kong. She serves on the Council of the Hong Kong Bar Association, chairing its Arbitration Committee, is editor of the IBA's Dispute Resolution International, and co-author of ICCA's Guide to the Interpretation of the 1958 New York Convention: A Handbook for Judges (2012).