Ming Kang

Practice Areas

MR. KANG HAS AN ESTABLISHED DISPUTE RESOLUTION PRACTICE FOCUSING ON INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS PROTECTION.

Mr. Kang specializes in foreign-related Chinese arbitration and international commercial arbitration. He has participated in numerous domestic and international arbitration cases in all capacities — including as counsel, arbitrator and expert witness. As an arbitrator, he has adjudicated more than 1,000 foreign-related Chinese arbitration and international commercial arbitration cases. As an expert, he has dealt with numerous domain name disputes in connection with CIETAC’s Domain Name Dispute Resolution Center. Mr. Kang is on the arbitrator panels of domestic Chinese and foreign arbitration institutions including SIAC, HKIAC, ACP, KCAB, CIETAC, and CMAC. Mr. Kang was one of the first eight arbitrators of Chinese nationality included on SIAC arbitrator list.

Mr. Kang has received the State Council Special Allowance since 2005 and has been recognized by Chambers and Partners as an “Eminent Practitioner” in the area of “Dispute Resolution: Arbitration” in 2019 and 2020.

Kang Ming has an enviable reputation as a particularly “well-established practitioner” in the arbitration space, sources emphasizing that “he is a very good lawyer.” He appears particularly frequently in cases considered at CIETAC.——Chambers Asia-Pacific, 2020

Career

Before joining Fangda, Mr. Kang served as Deputy Secretary-General of CIETAC, Deputy General Director of CCPIT Legal Affairs Department, Vice-chairman of the CCPIT Conciliation Center, Deputy Director and Secretary-General of CMAC, Secretary of the China Maritime Arbitration Association, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Dari Co., Ltd., a company jointly set up by the CCPIT and Richards Hogg Lindley (HK) Ltd. Mr. Kang also served as chief representative of the CCPIT UK Office in London from March 2005 to April 2006, during which time he was also appointed as Secretary-General of the China Enterprises Association in Britain.

Professional Memberships

-Listed on the CIETAC Panel of Arbitrators

-Listed on the CMAC Panel of Arbitrators

-Listed on the SIAC Panel of Arbitrators

-Listed on the HKIAC Panel of Arbitrators

-Listed on the ACP Panel of Arbitrators

-Listed on the KCAB Panel of Arbitrators

-Member of the ACLA

Publications

Presentations/Speeches

-Study on Commercial Arbitration Service, Law Press, 2005

-China Maritime Law Cases (1997-2002), Editor, 2002

-China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Cases (1995-2002) three volumes, Editor, 2002

-“Ad Hoc Arbitration in China”, International Arbitration Law Review (UK), 2003, Vol. 6

-Law and Practice of Anti-dumping and Anti-allowance Measures, Co-editor, China Economic Press

-International Norms and Foreign-related Arbitration, Co-editor

-“China’s Post-WTO Foreign Trade and Investment Regulations: What’s new?”, presentation at Malaysia-China Partnership Summit Meeting, 2003

-Collection of PRC Arbitration Laws, Co-editor

-Law Yearbook of China, Special Correspondent, preparing arbitration articles and summaries of arbitration cases every year from 1991 to 2004

-Practice of Chinese Foreign-Related Economic Contracts, Co-editor

-Encyclopedia of Chinese Enterprises’ International Operations, Co-editor

-The Great Dictionary of Capitalism, Co-editor

-Numerous articles on Arbitration or Arbitration related issues were published in journals such as China Lawyers, International Trade Studies, Arbitration and Legal News, China Trade News, etc.

Education