Helen H Shi

Practice Areas

Ms. Shi's practice focuses on dispute resolution, including international commercial arbitration and litigation. Ms. Shi also serves as vice-president of the ICC court of arbitration and co-chair of the IBA Asia Pacific arbitration group.

Recognized by Chambers Partners as “an icon of arbitration”, Ms. Shi has acted in more than 100 cases, representing many multinational companies and large domestic enterprises in a wide range of disputes, including disputes arising from equity acquisitions, oil and gas projects, hotel management, aircraft leasing and construction. Ms. Shi represents clients in litigation before the Chinese courts and in arbitration before the ICC, SIAC, HKIAC, CIETAC and ad hoc arbitrations under the UNCITRAL rules.

Ms. Shi has also participated as an arbitrator in over 50 cases. Moreover, being an experienced legal practitioner, she has also provided Chinese legal opinions and testified as an expert in a number of Chinarelated overseas court cases and arbitrations, including court proceedings in Hong Kong and Canada as well as arbitration conducted before HKIAC and an ad hoc tribunal in London.