Huawei Sun

Huawei Sun specialises in international commercial and investment treaty arbitration and has represented Chinese and foreign clients (including large state-owned companies, listed companies, multinational companies) in cases conducted under ICSID, ICC, UNCITRAL, LCIA, SIAC, HKIAC, LME and CIETAC arbitration rules. She has significant experience working as counsel and arbitrator on disputes involving cross-border M&A, financial products, energy and resources projects, intellectual property, construction projects and international sale of goods, with governing laws including English law, Hong Kong law, Singaporean law, French law, Swiss law, Dutch law, Malaysian law and Chinese law. She is one of the most active Chinese counsels appearing before international tribunals.

She regularly advises Chinese enterprises on the issues arising from overseas investment contracts and political risk insurance as well as regulatory measures taken by the host countries. Huawei has advised MOFCOM on a wide variety of investment treaty issues and recently achieved victory for China in Ansung Housing Co., Ltd. v. People’s Republic of China (ICSID Case No. ARB/14/25).

She is listed on the HKIAC and CIETAC Panels of Arbitrators and has acted as arbitrator (including presiding and sole arbitrator) in nearly 50 domestic, foreign-related and international disputes. She is also listed on the first CIETAC Panel of Arbitrators for International Investment Disputes (effective from 1 September 2018).

Prior to joining Zhong Lun, Huawei worked for more than seven years at the Beijing and Hong Kong offices of Allen & Overy, where she was later responsible for managing the firm’s China-related arbitration matters.

Huawei has a J.D. degree from Vanderbilt University Law School and is qualified in the State of New York. She is a native Mandarin speaker and fluent in English.