HKIAC has appointed David Rivkin and Rimsky Yuen as its new Co-Chairs, to succeed Matthew Gearing QC. HKIAC Council members Briana Young of Herbert Smith Freehills and Nils Eliasson of Shearman & Stearling have been promoted to Vice Chair, alongside Joseph Wan.
David W. Rivkin, Co-Chair of Debevoise & Plimpton’s International Dispute Resolution Group and Past President of the International Bar Association (IBA), and Rimsky Yuen GBM, SC, JP, arbitrator, mediator and barrister and former Hong Kong Secretary for Justice, are appointed Co-Chairs of HKIAC with effect from 15 June 2020.
Rivkin and Yuen succeed Matthew Gearing QC, whose three-year term as HKIAC Chair concludes on 14 June 2020.
Two members of HKIAC’s Council, Nils Eliasson, Partner at Shearman & Sterling, and Briana Young, Foreign Legal Consultant at Herbert Smith Freehills, are elevated to Vice Chair.
HKIAC’s press release is available here.
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