Paul Choon Kiat Wee

Practice Areas

Paul Choon Kiat Wee specialises in commercial litigation, international commercial arbitration, and investor-state arbitration. His clients include governments, corporations, financial institutions, and individuals, and his practice spans a diverse range of sectors including banking and finance, oil and gas, energy and infrastructure, mining and exploration, telecommunications, IT, manufacturing, and entertainment and media. In addition to his in-depth experience in all aspects of arbitration (international commercial and investor-state arbitration alike, under the ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, SCC, and ICSID Rules, and in arbitration-related court proceedings concerning setting aside and enforcement of international arbitral awards), Paul has considerable expertise in banking and finance (having acted in high profile matters such as the RBS Rights Issue litigation), civil fraud and asset recovery (especially in CIS-related fraud disputes, such as the Kazakhstan Kagazy and BITEL litigation, and with in-depth experience of freezing and proprietary injunctions, Norwich Pharmacal and Bankers Trust applications, and other fraud-related interlocutory relief), and insolvency (acting both for and against insolvency practitioners in disputes concerning transactions defrauding creditors, insolvent trading, and asset recovery proceedings against directors for misappropriation of company assets). Paul’s practice has a significant offshore and international element. As well as being a member of the Bar of England and Wales, Paul has also been called to the Bars of the British Virgin Islands (2014) and Gibraltar (2022), and granted rights of audience before the AIFC Court (2019).