7 LAWYER MONTHLY ADR AWARDS 2024 Best Arbitration Lawyer of the Year Partner - Grandall Law Firm CHINA Walter Chen Walter is Senior Counsel (S.C) and Partner at the Nanjing Office of Grandall Law Firm, which is one of the largest fullservice law firms in China with over 680 partners and 5000 employees in 33 offices across major cities worldwide. Including Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Nanjing, Xi’an, Wuhan, Hong Kong, Paris, Madrid, Stockholm, and New York, among others. Grandall attained recognition for excellence as a major international law firm among the leading Chinese law firms. Lawyer Monthly speaks to Walter to gain further insight into his arbitration experience in China. About Walter Chen Walter (Fayun) Chen, FCIArb, FHKIArb, is S.C, a partner at Grandall Law Firm, Master of International Business Law at the University of Liverpool, Visiting Scholar at the University of Maryland, and further gets trained at the University of Hamburg. He is Chair of International Commercial Arbitration Committee of Jinagsu Lawyers Association, a Member of Arbitration and Mediation Committee of the All China Lawyers Association, the ICC China Arbitration Committee, the International Commercial Expert Committee of the Nanjing Intermediate People’s Court, and the Vice President of the UK Sub-Association, and the Steering Committee Member of the Western Returned Scholars Association, China. He is also a Member of Panel of Arbitrators of over 20 arbitration institutions including SIAC, HKIAC, THAC, KCAB, LCIA, SCCA, CIETAC, BIAC and SCIA etc. He is one of the very few leading international commercial dispute resolution practitioners in China who can effectively handle cases in both English and Chinese as counsel and arbitrator. He has a proven track record for representing and assisting clients in handling complex and high-value legal matters and commercial cases heard before courts in Mainland China, Hong Kong SAR, the US and in ad hoc arbitrations and arbitration institutions such as SIAC, HKIAC, CIETAC, and the ICC International Court of Arbitration. For four consecutive years from 2021 to 2024, Walter was part of the three-member Editorial Board of “CDR-Essential Intelligence: THE BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE” published by Global Legal Group, UK, and co-author of the Chapter on China. He was respectively selected as one of the “Leading Talents of Foreign Related Lawyers” by the All China Lawyers Association and the Ministry of Justice, China, and was awarded by Legal Daily, China as one of the first session “Top Ten Lawyers of the Belt and Road” and by Lawyer Monthly UK as the “Arbitration Lawyer of the Year”. Walter (Fayun) Chen, S.C. FCIArb Partner, Grandall Law Firm Address: Grandall Law Firm (Nanjing), 8F, Block B, 309# Hanzhongmen Street, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China. Tel: +86-25-89660918(dir) Email: walterchen@139.com chenfayun@grandall.com.cn www.grandall.com.cn/en/
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