Email: andreas.respondek@rf-arbitration.com
Telephone: +65 6324 0060
Cell: +65 9751 0757
“It is, above all, the quality of the arbitral tribunal that makes or breaks the process.”
*Redfern-Hunter
Dr. Respondek is an International Arbitrator based in Singapore. He holds a dual bar admission as an American Attorney at Law in the USA and a German “Rechtsanwalt” in Germany and is also a Chartered Arbitrator (FCIArb).
He has acted as arbitrator or counsel in more than 60 international arbitration proceedings in institutional and ad hoc arbitrations (including expedited proceedings), including the ICC, SIAC, HKIAC, Swiss Rules, TAI and UNCITRAL arbitration rules in Singapore, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Frankfurt, London, Zurich, Austin, Miami, Taipei, Tokyo etc.
Dr. Respondek has resided and worked in Singapore, Hong Kong, Bangkok and Taipei for more than 20 years. He started his legal career in the US with two (winning) precedents from the Louisiana Supreme Court in his own name in 1983.
After heading the Legal Department of an MNC in Europe, he moved to Singapore in 1994 to establish the Asia Pacific Legal Department of a leading international Healthcare Company.
Thereafter he led multinational companies in Asia as Managing Director (Thailand; Greater China) Managing Director Asia Pacific and set up his own arbitration practice in 1998.
Andreas is the editor / co-author of the ASIA ARBITRATION GUIDE and numerous other arbitration legal publications.
Dr. Respondek is a member of various arbitration panels and has acted as arbitrator or counsel in more than 60 proceedings in institutional and ad hoc arbitrations
Dr. Respondek has published many arbitration related articles and books. Read about them here.
• LL.B. - Freiburg / D
• LL.M. – Tulane / USA (Fulbright Scholarship)
• Ph.D. – Linz / A
• FCIArb – London / UK
• USA (1983)
• GERMANY (1986)
• SINGAPORE (Offshore License; 1998)
• English
• German
• French
• Spanish
• Chinese