May Event: China’s One Belt One Road Initiative

Since its inception in 2013, China’s One Belt One Road (OBOR) strategy has become President Xi Jinping’s flagship international initiative.  This initiative comes at a time when the world is still on a learning curve when trying to understand the intricacies of modern China itself.

The aim of OBOR is the economic integration of Eurasia, largely through investment in infrastructure and transport projects.  The core idea behind it is to revive the ancient land-trade route in the framework of the Silk Road Economic Belt in conjunction with the sea-trade routes of the Twenty-first Century Maritime Silk Road. 

Experience has shown that large international infrastructure projects can give rise to expensive and lengthy legal disputes involving various stakeholders from many countries.  For parties involved in OBOR, and for those interested in becoming involved, there are many lessons that can be learned from those experiences.  

At our May event, Mr Jun Wang will share his insights from managing some cutting-edge infrastructure project disputes arising from the initial phases of OBOR implementation. 

About the speaker

Mr Jun Wang is the founder and director of Hong Kong-based award-winning boutique arbitration and dispute management firm Capital Alliance ADR Advisory Services (Capital Alliance). He also serves as a part-time Senior Instructor at the Legal Practice Education Centre of Macau University of Science and Technology Faculty of Law. Jun is the first ever China-born individual appointed as an Honorary Fellow by the University of Western Australia Faculty of Law. Jun is also the co-producer of Chinese version of ACICA Arbitration Rules (2016). He splits his time between Greater China and Australasia and frequently travels to Singapore and other parts of the Asia-Pacific region to work with his clients.

Prior to setting up Capital Alliance, Jun has had extensive experience working with leading Chinese and UK/US international law firms in China, Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong where he worked on Chinese, Australian, English, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwanese, New York, Brazilian, Saudi, Thai, Indian and EU law matters for 17 years. Jun has also served as Deputy Registrar of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) between 2009 and 2010 where he played a lead role in supervising all arbitrations filed with the SIAC and was involved in the interpretation of Singapore’s International Arbitration Act (Chapter 143A), and  the drafting of the SIAC Arbitration Rules 2010.

Jun is experienced in advising clients on China/Asia-related arbitration matters under various arbitration rules. He has been involved in the representation of multinational companies and high net worth individuals to conduct legal proceedings through court systems in China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Singapore, Australia, Canada and the European Union. He is also well versed in international investment and trade law disputes. 

Jun was admitted as an attorney-at-law in China in 2001. He was admitted as a Lawyer in the Supreme Court of New South Wales and as a Barrister and Solicitor in the High Court of Australia in 2006. Jun was admitted as a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales in 2009. Jun was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor in the High Court of New Zealand in 2014.