Professional biography
Paul Starr is a Partner in the Hong Kong office of Mallesons Stephen Jaques. He is Practice Team Leader in Asia for Construction and Dispute Resolution. Paul's team is several times winner of ALB's Construction Firm of the Year, Arbitration Firm and Deal Team of the Year.
Paul has been based in the Far East since 1985, where he has worked to develop a regional projects law practice particularly in China, Thailand, Taiwan, Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore. Paul has conducted and helped to resolve many of Asia's largest infrastructure disputes - HK$5billion worth of claims at Hong Kong's new airport; a USD100 million highly confidential arbitation in Hong Kong; disputes over Bangkok Metro and Bangkok New Airport, Taiwan and Korean High Speed Rails, Hong Kong MTR and KCR projects; Marina Square and Bank of China in Singapore; insurance, hotel and residential/golf disputes in China.
In recognition of Paul's arbitration expertise in China over the past twenty years, Paul has achieved the great honour of being elected onto the arbitration panel of CIETAC.
In addition to the Who's Who Legal publications (including Construction, Business and Commercial Arbitration), Paul is also named as “Leading Lawyer” in the following publications : IFLR's Guide to the World's Leading Experts in Commercial Arbitration; IFLR's Guide to the World's Leading Litigation Lawyers.
Paul is a past Chairman of the Society of Construction Law Hong Kong. It is no coincidence that, when Sweet & Maxwell launched their new textbook “Arbitration in Hong Kong”, Paul was their natural choice for writing the Construction section.
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