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Interested in finding out about WilmerHale’s leading International Arbitration Group in London? Come join us for this careers talk by our guest speaker, Xiaohan Cai, from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr. Xiaohan will be sharing more on:

• Overseas career opportunities in international arbitration;
• Discuss opportunities currently available to NUS students in London; and
• How students can prepare and position themselves to best take advantage of these opportunities.

About the Speaker

Xiaohan Cai
Senior Associate, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr

Xiaohan Cai is a senior associate in the Litigation/Controversy Department and a member of the International Arbitration Practice Group. Ms. Cai has advised on and represented clients in commercial arbitrations and investment arbitrations under a variety of rules (including the SIAC, ICC, LCIA, ICDR, AAA, and UNCITRAL rules), governing laws (including Singapore, English, U.S., Chinese, Indonesian, and Cambodian law), and seats (including Singapore, England, U.S., and Switzerland). These include bilingual English-Chinese arbitrations, as well as arbitrations governed by Chinese law. Ms. Cai also regularly acts as secretary to tribunals and arbitrators. She has particular experience with construction and infrastructure, franchise, and mining disputes.

Ms. Cai is admitted to the Singapore Bar, and has also represented clients in commercial litigation and enforcement proceedings before the Singapore courts. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Cai was an associate with a major Singapore law firm.

Firm/Group: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr (WilmerHale) is a leading US law firm with headquarters in Washington DC and Boston. WilmerHale’s International Arbitration Group, centred in the London office, is one of the world’s largest and most experienced international arbitration and dispute resolution practices, and has been involved in more than 700 proceedings in recent years. The group is consistently acknowledged to be one of the very best in the world and has successfully represented clients in a number of the largest institutional arbitrations and several of the most significant ad hoc arbitrations to arise in the past decade. The group is headed by Gary Born, one of the world’s preeminent authorities in the field, with a multinational team consists of over 70 lawyers, trained and qualified in the US and jurisdictions across Europe, Latin America and Asia. In addition to representing clients as counsel, many lawyers in the group regularly sit as arbitrators in international arbitrations. Our practice covers commercial and investment arbitration under the rules of all leading arbitration institutions and ad hoc arbitrations seated in a wide range of jurisdictions. We have represented individuals, companies, States and State-entities. Our lawyers are or have recently been involved in arbitrations seated in the United States (various situses), London, Geneva, Lausanne, Zurich, Paris, Vienna, Singapore, Hong Kong, Stockholm, Rome, Tokyo, Cairo, Brussels, Amsterdam, The Hague, Mexico, Canada, Bermuda, Frankfurt, Munich and Berlin, among other places. In recent years, our arbitration group has handled disputes governed by the laws of more than 70 different legal systems.

London Intern Program: The firm’s London Intern program provides a unique opportunity for young lawyers from across the globe to experience the realities of a busy international arbitration practice and to learn from colleagues who are leaders in their field. This is a paid internship that welcomes students in the final stages of their legal education, and practitioners in the early stages of their legal careers. The program provides participants from both civil and common law jurisdictions with exposure to the wide range of international commercial disputes handled in our Global International Arbitration Practice. During their time at WilmerHale, interns are given the chance to put theory into practice by working with the International Arbitration Group’s lawyers on factual and legal assignments stemming from current cases, as well as the opportunity to further academic interests with involvement on research projects in conjunction with lawyers in the practice.