Daniel Chua

Legal

• Senior Associate, Peter & Kim (Singapore) December 2022 – Present
• Senior Associate, Mayer Brown (Singapore) April 2022 – October 2022
• Associate, Herbert Smith Freehills (Kuala Lumpur) October 2018 – March 2022
• Associate, Cecil Abraham & Partners (Kuala Lumpur) September 2016 – September 2018
• Visiting Foreign Intern, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr (London) January 2017 – March 2017
• Pupil in Chambers, Rahmat Lim & Partners (Kuala Lumpur) October 2014 – June 2015

Academic

• Adjunct Lecturer, Taylor’s University, School of Law and Governance (Kuala Lumpur) March 2021 – February 2023
• Adjunct Lecturer, Advance Tertiary College (Penang) August 2018 – May 2021

• Diploma in International Arbitration, Chartered Institute of Arbitration, 2019
• Master of Laws, University College London, 2015 – 2016, Faculty of Laws Bentham Scholarship
• Certificate in Legal Practice, Legal Profession Qualifying Board, 2013 – 2014, Second Class (Upper) Honours, Law Faculty Dean’s Award
• Bachelor of Laws, First Class Honours, University of London, 2010 – 2013, First Class Honours, University of London Prize for Academic Achievement

• Acting for a Singaporean oil and gas exploration and production company in BANI arbitration and mediation concerning liabilities for lost-in-hole equipment in an offshore drilling rig dispute in the Lemang PSC block in Indonesia under Indonesian law.
• Acting for Chinese state-owned entities (SOE) in SIAC arbitration over fraudulent misrepresentations related to the purchase of a stake in a joint venture company with interests in various oil and gas fields in the North Sea under English law.
• Acting for an FSRU and LNG infrastructure provider in consolidated SIAC arbitrations over the validity of a long-term charter of an FSRU vessel to an Indonesian SOE under Indonesian law.
• Defending a Bruneian SOE in SIAC arbitration brought by an EPC consortium related to a construction dispute involving delay and prolongation claims over the modernization of an international airport in Brunei under Brunei law.
• Acting for a Korean EPC contractor in ICC arbitration concerning the design and manufacturing of defective feedwater heaters installed in a steam power plant in Saudi Arabia under English law.
• Acting for an Abu Dhabi luxury real estate investment and development company in DIAC arbitration brought by a subcontractor regarding disputed variation and prolongation claims under English law.
• Defending a Malaysian utilities company in SIAC emergency arbitrator proceedings over the design of a waste heat recovery power generation plant to obtain an injunction against parallel ad hoc arbitration in India under English law.
• Acting for a Singaporean independent clean energy asset management company in SIAC arbitration related to a dispute surrounding the construction and management of a wind power project in Vietnam under Singapore law.
• Defending a Korean engineering consulting firm in expedited SIAC arbitration brought by a subcontractor over consultancy services for the MRT Line 7 project in the Philippines governed under the UNIDROIT PICC.
• Acting for a Thailand cement conglomerate in ICC arbitration in a joint venture dispute over a limestone mining concession in Myanmar under Myanmar law.
• Defending an Indonesia-based company in SIAC arbitration concerning a dispute over the failure of a long-term coal mining project and offtake agreement in a coal mine in Indonesia under English and Indonesian law.
• Defending Vietnam in two ICSID Additional Facility arbitrations initiated by Chinese SOEs arising from claims of judicial expropriation of contractual rights concerning the construction of a hydropower plant in Vietnam.
• Acting for an international telecommunications company in ICSID arbitration against Nepal regarding breaches of international law obligations arising from a tax dispute.
• Acting for a Malaysian telecommunications company in PCA arbitration against India concerning unfair and biased criminal investigations by the state on allegations of bribery of state officials related to its acquisition of an Indian satellite TV company.
• Acting for a South Korean investor in HKIAC arbitration against a global cryptocurrency exchange regarding the failure of a joint venture cryptocurrency exchange platform in South Korea, under Hong Kong and Korean law.
• Acting for a Chinese SOE in SIAC arbitration concerning an aborted acquisition of a Turkish telecoms company under Turkish law.
• Defending a global private equity firm in HKIAC-administered UNCITRAL arbitration against a consortium of sovereign wealth funds over claims of breach of warranties in its sale of a Korean botox manufacturer under New York law.
• Acting for an American hotel group in SIAC and ICC arbitrations to restrain parallel Thai litigation initiated by separate Thai hotel property owners in breach of arbitration agreements under Thai, English, and Hong Kong law.
• Acting for a Filipino conglomerate against a Big Four auditing firm on claims of professional negligence in VIAC (Vietnam) arbitration for failing to detect fraud within a Vietnamese subsidiary under Vietnamese law.
• Acting for a Malaysian airline in SIAC arbitration against the owners of a domestic Indonesian airline over the aborted acquisition of an Indonesian airline under Indonesian law.
• Acting for a regional bank in SIAC arbitration proceedings in a dispute with a Japanese insurance company over performance and compensation terms under a bancassurance agreement for insurance products marketed in Indonesia.

• Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (2019 – present)
• Accredited Tribunal Secretary, Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (2018 – present)
• Member, Asia Pacific Sub-Committee Campaign for Greener Arbitrations (2021 – 2023)
• Member, Investment Arbitration Committee, Asian International Arbitration Centre Young Practitioners Group (2020-2023)

• Sunil Abraham and Daniel Chua, ‘IBA Arbitration Committee Arbitration Guide – Malaysia’ (International Bar Association) (forthcoming 2024)
• Seungmin Lee, Daniel Chua and Youjoun Ha, ‘South Korea’ in Commercial Litigation and Cross-border Enforcement (Global Legal Post 2023)
• Kwong Chiew Ee, Chai Phing Zhou, Daniel Chua, Aravind Kumarr & Melvin Ng Yet Ting, Commercial Conflict of Laws in Malaysia (Sweet & Maxwell 2022)
• Sunil Abraham, Daniel Chua and Syukran Syafiq, ‘Sovereign Immunity in Malaysia’ in Getting the Deal Through (Lexology 2019)
• Cecil Abraham and Daniel Chua, ‘Malaysia Report’ in ICCA International Handbook on Commercial Arbitration (Kluwer Law International 2018)
• Cecil Abraham, Aniz Amirudin and Daniel Chua, ‘Interaction of Laws: An Asian Perspective’ in Neil Kaplan and Michael Moser (eds) Jurisdiction, Admissibility and Choice of Law in International Arbitration: Liber Amicorum Michael Pryles (Kluwer Law International 2018)
• Sunil Abraham and Daniel Chua, ‘IBA Arbitration Committee Arbitration Guide – Malaysia’ (International Bar Association 2018)
• Cecil Abraham, Sunil Abraham and Daniel Chua, ‘Misrepresentation’ in Nallini Pathmanathan (ed) Bullen, Leake & Jacob’s Malaysian Precedents of Pleadings (Sweet & Maxwell 2017)

• “No I in TEAM” – Legal Stakeholders in Arbitration, VYAP – Malaysia Chapter (Kuala Lumpur, April 2024)
• ‘Emerging Trends in Arbitration’ in National Young Lawyers and Pupils Conference: Thriving in 2033: Mastering the Unknown, Malaysian Bar Council (Penang, February 2023)
• ‘Summary Determination vs Summary Judgment: A Big Duel’ in AIAC ADR Week 2022, AIAC (Kuala Lumpur, October 2022)
• ‘Arbitration in the Age of Globalization: USA Session’ in AIAC ADR Week 2022, AIAC (Kuala Lumpur, October 2022)