Elizabeth Chan (陳曉彤) is a Registered Foreign Lawyer (England and Wales) in Allen & Overy’s Global and Asia-Pacific Arbitration team, based in Hong Kong. She specialises in international commercial arbitration and investment treaty arbitration. Prior to joining Allen & Overy, Elizabeth practised for five and a half years at a leading specialist international arbitration practice in London. Before that, she also practised international arbitration in New York and Hong Kong.
She has represented both investors and foreign governments in arbitrations under many major arbitral rules (including ICC, LCIA, ICDR, ICSID and UNCITRAL), seated in many major arbitral seats (including The Hague, Singapore, London, Geneva, and Washington, DC). She is ranked as a Future Leader of Who’s Who Legal – Arbitration 2022. She obtained her LLM from Yale Law School as a Fulbright Scholar. She is admitted as a Solicitor-Advocate in England and Wales, a New York attorney and a New Zealand barrister/solicitor (non-practising). She speaks English, Cantonese and Mandarin.
Elizabeth is also a Board Member of ArbitralWomen, a Member of the Equal Representation in Arbitration Pledge Young Practitioners’ Subcommittee, host of the CPR Y-ADR Corporate Counsel Interview Series, a member of the CPR Y-ADR Steering Committee, Secretary of the CPR European Advisory Board, a Young ICCA Mentoring Programme Group Advisor, a member of the ICC Task Force on Disabilities Inclusion in International Arbitration, a Co-Founder of ARBinBRIEF, Founder of 国际仲裁沙龙, and Administrator of MetaverseLegal.