Mary Thomson - Consultant

Experience

• Dispute resolution including litigation, arbitration, mediation
• Appointments as arbitrator since 1997 (including as "commercial man")
• Contract drafting and negotiation
• Policy interpretation
• Fraud

Significant reported cases

• Fiacra Industries v Bank of China - injunction, performance guarantee pursuant to construction agreement
• Credit Lyonnais v SK Global - stay of execution, insolvency
• "Tian Sheng No.8" - 1st admiralty case at the Court of Final Appeal

Clients

• Insurers / Reinsurers
• Banks and financial institutions
• Multinationals
• Traders

Professional

1983 Qualified as a barrister, England & Wales

1991 Qualified as a solicitor, England & Wales

1992 Qualified as a solicitor, Hong Kong

Publications

• An editor of "Hong Kong Court Forms" in Civil Proceedings (Butterworths)
• (Listed in) Who's Who of the Law (Hong Kong) and Chambers Global, the World's Leading Lawyers
  

Memberships

• Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
• Fellow, Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators
• Accredited Mediator, HKIAC
• ICC Hong Kong, China
• LMAA
• Energy Institute

Panels

• Arbitrators and Mediators, HKIAC
• Arbitrators HKMAG, a division of HKIAC
• Arbitrators and Mediators, The Law Society of Hong Kong
• Arbitrators, Korean Arbitration Board
• Arbitrators and Conciliators, Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry