Christopher Chinn

Area of specialisation

• Arbitration Arts, Leisure, Entertainment, Tourism Competition Construction, Engineering Corporate Law / M&A Distribution, Franchising Energy and Natural Resources Information and Communication Technologies Intellectual Property Investment / Public International Law Joint Ventures, Consortia, Cooperation Maritime Mediation Pharmaceutical Real Estate Sales, Purchases Transport

Bar admission

• France
• United Kingdom
• United States

Experience with legal system

• United Arab Emirates
• Switzerland
• Algeria
• Egypt
• France
• United Kingdom
• Gambia
• Hong Kong
• Italy
• Korea, Republic of
• Poland
• Romania
• Singapore
• United States

Professional experience

Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawai’i, Christopher Chinn, FCIArb, is a Franco-American arbitrator and counsel admitted in Paris, England & Wales, and New York.

Christopher has been involved on the counsel side of international arbitrations at leading law firms in New York and Paris since 1999 and has acted as arbitrator since 2019 under the rules of the DIAC, HKIAC, ICC, KCAB, SAKIG, and Swiss Arbitration Centre under common law and civil law legal systems in the French and English languages. Matters as arbitrator have included disputes in the construction, energy and commercial sectors involving States, individuals and international corporations. Christopher speaks Polish on a conversational level and has arbitrated disputes in Eastern Europe in addition to Western Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

Christopher has run his own boutique practice as arbitrator and counsel based in Paris since 2017. www.chinnarbitration.com

He is Vice Chair of the Executive Committee of the European Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and has been admitted to numerous institutional lists of arbitrators.