Shaun Milligan
Shaun is a dispute resolution lawyer advising on litigation, arbitration and regulatory investigations
Shaun advises clients on complex commercial disputes across a broad range of industry sectors. He has experience acting for clients in litigation and arbitration proceedings, including arbitrations under the HKIAC, SIAC and UNCITRAL arbitration rules. He has a particular interest in business and human rights issues and helping clients foster responsible business practices that comply with national and international standards.
Background
Shaun graduated from the University of Oxford (Magdalen College) with a masters-level Bachelor of Civil Law and from Griffith University with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours)/Bachelor of Business (awarded with the University Medal). At Oxford, his studies focused on public international law, conflict of laws and business and human rights.
During his Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade New Colombo Plan Scholarship, Shaun gained experience working in the firm’s international arbitration practice in Hong Kong. His prize-winning undergraduate Honours thesis on Business and Human Rights Arbitration was published in Columbia Law School’s American Review of International Arbitration. Shaun has also studied Mandarin at leading institutions across Asia, including on scholarship to National Taiwan Normal University and the University of Hong Kong.
Shaun also participates in the firm’s pro bono program and has acted for a range of NGOs and charities including the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award, the Justice and Equity Centre and Save the Children Australia.
He is admitted to practise as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the High Court of Australia.
Experience & expertise
Selected matters
- a technology group of companies in relation to multiple class actions, and proceedings brought by a competitor, in the Supreme Court of Victoria.
- a telecommunications company in its response to an investigation by the ACCC into allegations of misleading or deceptive conduct and unconscionable conduct and related enforcement proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia.
- a mining company in relation to admiralty and maritime claims arising from a maritime allision.
- a global mining company in relation to a class action brought in the High Court of South Africa.
- a Chinese pharmaceutical company in HKIAC arbitration proceedings against another pharmaceutical company, concerning a breach of contract dispute governed by New York law.
- one of Asia’s largest private equity firms in HKIAC arbitration proceedings against another leading private equity firm, arising out of the sale of its shareholding in a Korean company.
- a leading Chinese oil and gas conglomerate in the largest-ever claim ($US 5.5 billion) filed with the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, concerning a major North Sea oil field acquisition which the clients allege was induced by fraud.
- one of China’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges in Hong Kong court proceedings regarding the discharge of an injunction in connection with an UNCITRAL arbitration.
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