Arbitration in China: Rules & Perspectives (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789811092282)

Giovanni Pisacane is a business lawyer specializing in international practice. He has been practicing as a business lawyer since 1996 and has extensive experience in arbitration and mediation. He completed a Masters in Private International Law at The Hague Academy in the Netherlands. In 2004 he founded GWA, an international legal and tax consulting firm, in Shanghai. He was appointed as a Special Advisor for Italy-China business relations by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development. Giovanni Pisacane is a member of the panel of arbitrators of SHIAC (Shanghai International Arbitration Center) and VIAC (Vienna International Arbitral Centre), and is also a member of the ECLS (European China Law Studies Association), the IBA Arbitration Committee (International Bar Association) and the ICCA (International Council for Commercial Arbitration).

Lea Murphy is a business lawyer specializing in international business law. She received her Bachelor of Laws, with a focus on arbitration, from the University of Florence, and earned her LLM at the National University of Singapore and at ECUPL in Shanghai.

Her practice encompasses advising on corporate legal issues for diverse commercial transactions, resolving disputes on various matters under labor, corporate and contract law and assisting at SHIAC (Shanghai International Arbitration Center) and CIETAC (China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission) international commercial arbitrations.

Calvin Zhang qualified as a PRC lawyer in 2000. He is experienced in both litigation and arbitration in front of PRC Courts, the SHIAC (Shanghai International Arbitration Center) and the CIETAC (China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission).

With a Chinese and American legal education and training, he has represented many European and American MNCs from a wide spectrum of industries. He has also been involved in non-litigation legal services and has represented a wide rangeof European and American clients.