Wei Sun

Practice Areas

Litigation & Arbitration, Investment/M&A & Corporate Governance, Construction & Project Development

Professional Memberships

Panel Arbitrator of Arbitral Institutions

Overseas arbitral institution: American Arbitration Association-International Centre for Dispute Resolution (AAA-ICDR), Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC), Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC), Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa (AFSA), Tashkent International Arbitration Centre (TIAC), Borneo International Centre for Arbitration and Mediation (BICAM), International Commercial Arbitration Court (ICAC), among others

Domestic arbitral institution: China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), Beijing Arbitration Commission (BAC), Shanghai International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (SHIAC), Shanghai Arbitration Commission (SHAC), Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (SCIA, Shenzhen Arbitration Commission), Guangzhou Arbitration Commission (GZAC), Nanjing Arbitration Commission (JICAC), Tianjin Arbitration Commission (TJAC), Shijiazhuang Arbitration Commission (SJZAC), among others

Position with International Organizations

Representative, China to UNCITRAL Working Group II

Member, ICC International Court of Arbitration

Board Member, Singapore International Mediation Centre (SIMC)

Member, International Advisory Board, Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC)

Member, Supervisory Board, Tashkent International Arbitration Centre (TIAC)

Member, Protem Committee for Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC) and the Committee for Revising AIAC Arbitration Rules 2021

Fellow, Charted Institute of Arbitration (FCIArb)

Position with Domestic Organizations

Convenor, Construction Dispute Expert Group of CIETAC

Member, Expert Advisory Committee of Hainan International Arbitration Court (HIAC)

Member, Expert Advisory Committee of Shijiazhuang Arbitration Commission (SJZAC)

Member, Expert Advisory Committee of Xian Arbitration Commission

Adjunct Professor of Law, China University of Political Science and Law

Member, the 12th All-China Youth Federation

Secretary-General, Permanent Forum of China Construction Law (PFCCL)

Other Affiliations

Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb)

Senior Fellow, International Academy of Construction Lawyers

Personal

Dr. Sun has extensive experience in international arbitration, cross-border litigation, domestic litigation and arbitration, as well as international and domestic civil enforcement, specializing in sectors including construction and infrastructure, energy, corporate equity, finance, etc. Dr. Sun has a strong track record of success in representing clients before domestic and international arbitral institutions and Chinese courts at all levels including the Supreme People's Court. He has represented clients in many significant and complicated commercial dispute cases, such as representing ED&F Man in applying for the recognition and enforcement of an arbitral award rendered by the Sugar Association of London—a landmark case in China's judicial review of arbitral awards on public policy grounds; sitting as the emergency arbitrator in the first emergency arbitration procedure in the Chinese Mainland; successfully revoking an ICC arbitral award before the Singapore High Court and Singapore Court of Appeal; representing a Shanghai construction enterprise in successfully securing the suspension of payment before the Shanghai Financial Court under multiple independent guarantees issued by the China Branch of a foreign bank, with an Indian company as the ultimate beneficiary; representing the subsidiary and branch of a petrochemical SOE in a mineral resource encroachment dispute and successfully achieving a complete dismissal of the plaintiff's claims, overturning the first-instance judgement of the Sichuan High People's Court, which had almost entirely upheld the plaintiff's claims.

Dr. Sun has handled cases covering more than thirty jurisdictions, including without limitation, the US, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Singapore, Hong Kong, India, Vietnam, Thailand, Argentina, Algeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, etc. With in-depth research in relevant fields, Dr. Sun offers sharp insights and has accumulated extensive experience in international arbitration and cross-border litigation. He has published more than ten books in Chinese or English, including Arbitration in China: A Practitioner's Guide, Commercial Arbitration in China: Law and Practice, Equity Investment and Financing: Risk Prevention and Dispute Resolution, and Misrepresentation by Securities Service Agencies Liabilities and Risk Prevention.