Matthew Chan Email & Phone Number

Matthew has a broad practice in commercial litigation and international arbitration. He has particular interests in shipping and international trade, civil fraud, insurance, banking, company and insolvency law, and the conflict of laws. He is ranked as a Rising Star in The Legal 500, which describes him as “𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵” and having “𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯”.Matthew acts regularly in high-value commercial litigation and arbitration. He is instructed in, for example: 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘰𝘻𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦 𝘷 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵, a US$3 billion+ Commercial Court dispute involving allegations of bribery and corruption in connection with maritime infrastructure projects in the Republic; 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘌𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘷 𝘍𝘢𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘯𝘬𝘰𝘯𝘨, a dispute in the BVI courts and before the Privy Council involving the alleged breach of directors’ duties; and 𝘍𝘐𝘔𝘉𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘷 𝘒𝘊𝘏 𝘚𝘩𝘪𝘱𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨, a significant section 69 arbitration appeal regarding the temporal scope of the Hague-Visby Rules time bar in misdelivery claims.Matthew is also increasingly developing a busy practice as sole counsel. He regularly appears in his own right in the High Court and in arbitration. He recently appeared as the sole advocate in a week-long final arbitration hearing involving a seven-figure commodities dispute, and currently acts unled in a US$20 million+ arbitration involving private equity investments in the Cayman Islands.Before coming to the Bar, Matthew read law at the University of Oxford and gave tutorials in trusts law to undergraduates as a lecturer of Somerville College, Oxford. During his studies, he obtained a First Class degree and ranked second in the year. He then went on to complete the Bachelor of Civil Law at Oxford with Distinction and the Bar Professional Training Course at City Law School, where he achieved the second-best results in the year. He remains interested in academic law, and publishes regularly on issues of commercial law and international arbitration.Matthew is a native speaker of Mandarin Chinese and has a good understanding of the Asian markets. In particular, he maintains a keen interest in the legal industry in Singapore, where he grew up.

Listed skills include Research, Legal Research, Commercial Litigation, Finance, and 6 others.