John Savage is a partner at Shearman & Sterling LLP. He leads the firm’s international arbitration practice in Asia. He has represented clients in over 70 international arbitrations, both institutional and ad hoc, including certain of the cases referred to in his article in the present publication. He has also been appointed as chairman, sole arbitrator and co-arbitrator in International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) and ad hoc arbitrations. John is the co-editor of Fouchard Gaillard Goldman on International Commercial Arbitration (Kluwer, 1999).