SINGAPORE CONVENTION
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SINGAPORE CONVENTION WEEK EVENTS
Power Shifts: Navigating Energy Transition Disputes in Asia Pacific
by AAA-ICDR Asia Case Management Centre
27 August 2025, Wednesday
09:00 – 11:00
King & Spalding (Singapore) LLP
As Asia-Pacific economies accelerate their shift toward cleaner energy, legal disputes are emerging from the complex and evolving transition landscape. This session explores the new frontier of commercial conflicts—from regulatory upheaval and infrastructure decommissioning to decarbonization and low-carbon supply challenges. A panel of experts will unpack key risks and best practices for managing legal exposure in a region where uncertainty and opportunity go hand in hand.
*This event is an in-person event.
Speakers

Anisha SUD
Partner, International Disputes Practice Group, King & Spalding
Anisha Sud is a partner in King & Spalding’s International Disputes practice, based in Singapore. Focusing on the energy sector, Anisha represents clients in high-stakes international commercial and investment disputes involving long-term foreign investments, multi-party joint ventures, and government entities. Several of her commercial and investor-State arbitrations exceed USD 1 billion in dispute and form landmark international arbitration cases. She is ranked in Chambers and Legal 500, and clients have described her as "a great strategic thinker"; “nothing short of brilliant”; and able to "process issues on the spot and come out with lucid, clear advice".

Gitta SATRYANI
Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP
Gitta Satryani is a partner at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer and the Head of Disputes for Southeast Asia, based in Singapore. She specialises in complex cross-border disputes with particular expertise in international commercial arbitration, investment treaty arbitration, and public international law. Gitta advises commercial entities, states and SOEs on a broad range of issues relating to cross-border projects including dispute avoidance strategies and investment structuring. Gitta is ranked as an Arbitration Future Leader, Global Elite Thought Leader (Under 45) and National Leader by Who's Who Legal as well as an up and coming/next generation lawyer by other leading directories. She has been described by Chambers & Partners as "an impressive lawyer with unique skills in the market" and "very pragmatic and business-oriented in terms of suggesting strategies to resolve a problem and providing good practical guidance". Gitta is also recognised as a next generation partner: International Arbitration by Legal 500 Asia-Pacific 2025.

Phatsawat SIWAWEJ
Partner, Litigation and Arbitration Group, Weerawong C&P
Phatsawat Siwawej is a partner in the litigation and arbitration group at Weerawong C&P, a leading independent law firm in Thailand. He represents clients in litigation and arbitration proceedings, with expertise in complex commercial, criminal, owner-distributor, class action, construction and infrastructure, energy, intellectual property, employment, real estate, and environmental disputes. He is entrusted to handle the strategic cases of several leading Thai conglomerates. He is a qualified arbitrator and a guest lecturer at top-tier national law schools. He has authored articles on arbitration in Thailand in several leading international legal publications. He has been recognized by the Asia Super 50 Disputes Lawyers edition of Asian Legal Business, The Legal 500 as a Rising Star, and Benchmark Litigation as a Future Star and Top 40 Under 40 in Litigation. Phatsawat earned an LL.M. from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Thara GOPALAN
Vice President, International Centre for Dispute Resolution
Thara is Vice President at the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), the international division of the American Arbitration Association, a not-for-profit and the world’s largest provider of ADR services. She leads the ICDR’s strategic development and operations across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Oceania, overseeing staff and services in the region, including the AAA-ICDR Asia Case Management Centre in Singapore. A commercial disputes lawyer by background, Thara is admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore. She has acted in complex, high-value disputes before all levels of the Singapore courts and in international arbitrations and mediations under major institutional rules. Thara holds an LLB (Hons) from the University of Bristol and an LLM from University College London.

Wade CORIELL
Co-Head, International Disputes Practice Group, King & Spalding
Wade Coriell is the Co-Head of King & Spalding’s International Disputes practice group, and a recent member of the firm’s ten-person Policy Committee. He has represented clients in several of the largest international commercial and investment arbitrations on record in Asia and the Americas, particularly in the energy sector. Chambers Global ranks Wade as a global market leader in international arbitration, while Chambers Asia-Pacific ranks him as a Band 1 practitioner in Singapore, calling him "an excellent advocate whose level of experience and ability make him stand out" and reporting that clients "would trust him to lead our most important and sensitive international dispute matters and consider him to have become one of the pre-eminent practitioners in Singapore."