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Toby Landau KC (England & Wales)
Toby Landau KC (England & Wales)
Toby Landau KC (England & Wales)
‘Toby is in a league of his own. He provides razor-sharp advice.’ --Legal 500 (2025)

Call: 1993 (England & Wales)
1994 (New York State)
2000 (N. Ireland)
2011 (British Virgin Islands)
2017 (Singapore)
Inner Bar: 2008 (England & Wales)

Education

  • BA (Law), Oxford University (Merton College, First Class Honours)
  • BCL, Oxford University (First Class Honours)
  • LLM, Harvard Law School (Kennedy Scholar)

Contact

Email:tlandau@templechambers.com
Tel:(+852) 2523 2003

languages

English

Practice Areas

  • Arbitration
  • Banking / Finance
  • Civil Fraud / Asset Recovery
  • Commercial
  • Company
  • Confidentiality / Privacy
  • Conflict of Laws
  • Injunction / Contempt
  • Insolvency
  • Insurance
  • Restitution / Unjust Enrichment
  • Technology, Media and Telecommunications

    • Appointments And Public Office

  • Member of the ICCA Governing Board
  • Member of Panel of Advisors to the Attorney-General of Singapore since April 2012
  • Vice-President of the Court of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC)
  • Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) and Chartered Arbitrator (CArb) (by special election)
  • Member of the Board of Directors of the Singapore International Mediation Centre (SIMC) and member of its Panel of Specialist Mediators
  • Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration (SCCA)
  • Member of the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators (designated by Sri Lanka 2023-2029). Previously designated by Albania (2017-2023)
  • Advisor to the Board of the BVI Arbitration Centre
  • Member of the Advisory Board of the Mauritius International Arbitration Centre
  • Member of Board of Advisors of Delos Dispute Resolution
  • Member, HKIAC Nominations Committee
  • Bencher, The Hon Society of the Middle Temple, London UK

    • Publications And Articles

  • “Factual Witness Evidence in Modern Civil Litigation” (with Colin Seow) (2024) 36 SAcLJ 590.
  • “A World Without Investment Arbitration?” with Chester Brown and Michael Waibel -. ICCA Congress Series, 2022 Edinburgh (Kluwer 2023)
  • “Arbitral Groundhog Day: The Reopening and Re-Arguing of Arbitral Determinations” Singapore Arbitration Journal, 2020, vol 2
  • “Dysfunctional Deliberations and Effective Advocacy” (paper presented at the ICCA Congress in Mauritius, May 2016, (ICCA Congress series, No 19 – Kluwer)
  • “A Case for Transparency in Investment Arbitration: Aguas del Tunari v. Bolivia, ICSID Case No. ARB/02/3” (with Romesh Weeramantry), Chapt.48 in Building International Investment Law: The First 50 Years of ICSID (ICSID / Kluwer, 2016)
  • “The Relationship Between International Arbitration and the Regulators: A Pause for Thought” (paper presented at the ICCA Congress in Singapore, June 2012, (ICCA Congress series, No 17 – Kluwer)
  • “Saving Investment Arbitration From Itself” The 2011 Freshfields Lecture. Award for “Best Speech of the Year 2011”, Global Arbitration Review
  • “Advocacy in International Arbitration” (Luncheon Address) World Arbitration and Mediation Report 2011 Vol. 5, No. 4 (Juris)
  • “Tainted Memories: Exposing the Fallacy of Witness Testimony” The 2010 Kaplan Lecture (delivered in Hong Kong, Nov 2010) – short-listed for Award for “Best Speech of the Year 2010”, Global Arbitration Review
  • “Opening Statements” Chapter 14 in The Art of Advocacy in International Arbitration (2nd Ed, Juris, 2010 – with Doak Bishop)
  • “Reasons for Reasons: the Duty of Arbitrators in Investor-State Arbitration” (paper presented at the ICCA Congress in Dublin, June 2008, to be published by Kluwer in the ICCA Congress series, No.14 (2009))
  • “Arbitral Lifelines”: The Protection of Jurisdiction by Arbitrators (paper presented at the ICCA Congress in Montreal, June 2006, published by Kluwer in the ICCA Congress series, No.12 (2007))
  • Article II and the Requirement of Form, Chapter II.9 in Gaillard & Di Pietro (eds) “Enforcement of Arbitration Agreements and International Arbitral Awards – The New York Convention 1958 in Practice”, Cameron May, 2007 (with S. Moollan)
  • The Written Form Requirement for Arbitration Agreements: When “Written” Means “Oral”(paper presented at the ICCA Congress in London, May 2002, published by Kluwer in the ICCA Congress series, No.11 (2003))
  • The Regularization of International Commercial Arbitration: Comparative Trends and Tensions (Chapter 17 of: Dreams and Dilemmas: Economic Friction and Dispute Resolution in the Asia-Pacific: ISEAS, Singapore, 2000)
  • The English Arbitration Act 1996: An Approach to Harmonisation. Revision des EUGVÜ, Neues Schiedsverfahrensrecht, 1999 (Band II)
  • UK government Consultation Report on the draft English Arbitration Bill (1994)
  • Hunter & Landau The English Arbitration Act 1996: Text and Notes (Kluwer, 1998)
  • Commentary on WIPO Arbitration Rules American Review of International Arbitration (Vol V – 1994), and published as a separate volume by Juris Publishing (2000)
  • The Effect of the New English Arbitration Act on Institutional Arbitration 13 J.Int.Arb.4 (1996) (cited by Mr Justice Lightman in Nigel Peter Albon v Naza Motor Trading [2007] EWHC 665 – ChD)
  • Introduction to the English Arbitration Act 1996: 35 I.L.M. 155 (1996)

    • Scholarship And Prizes

  • Eldon Law Scholarship (Oxford University prize awarded to the most promising student intending to qualify at the Bar);
  • Slaughter & May University Prize (for the best performance in Contract in Final Examinations);
  • College Exhibition;
  • Fowler Prize;
  • Middle Temple Queen Mother’s Fund major Bar Scholarship;
  • Middle Temple Harmsworth Bar Entrance Exhibition; and
  • Kennedy Scholar & Harvard University Lewis Fellowship.

    • Profile

    Toby Landau KC (England & Wales) is a barrister, advocate and arbitrator, and a member of the Bars of England & Wales, Singapore, New York, the BVI and Northern Ireland, and is registered in the DIFC.

    As Counsel, he has had a broad commercial and international practice in London since 1994 and in Singapore since 2017. He has argued hundreds of major international commercial, investor-State and inter-state arbitrations, as well as ground-breaking cases in the highest courts of England, Singapore, Hong Kong, Pakistan and the Caribbean including, by way of example, Dallah v Pakistan; Jivraj v Hashwani; Ust-Kamenogorsk v AES; IPCO v NNPC; Enka v Chubb and Halliburton v Chubb before the UK Supreme Court; Minister of Finance / 1MDB v IPIC and Janah v Benkharbouche before the English Court of Appeal; PT First Media v Astro in the Courts of Singapore and Hong Kong; and Hubco v Wapda in the Pakistan Supreme Court.

    He is the first QC/KC to have been permanently called to the Singapore Bar and since April 2012 he has been a member of the Panel of Advisors to the Attorney-General of Singapore.

    As Arbitrator, he has extensive experience as Chairman, Co-Arbitrator and Sole Arbitrator in commercial and investor-State disputes under most of the world’s leading ad hoc and institutional rules. He is a member of various panels, including ICSID.

    In 2020 he was appointed as one of 25 persons to serve on the Arbitration Panel under the Agreement on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community.

    He is a Vice President of the SIAC Court of Arbitration; Member of the Governing Board of ICCA; Fellow of the CIArb and Chartered Arbitrator; UK delegate to the UNCITRAL Working Group on Arbitration (1994-2013); a draftsman of the English Arbitration Act 1996, the Pakistan Recognition and Enforcement (Arbitration Agreements and Foreign Arbitral Awards) Ordinance 2005, the Pakistan Arbitration (International Investment Disputes) Ordinance 2006, the Mauritius International Arbitration Act 2008, as well as many institutional rules.

    He holds a first-class law degree and a first-class BCL from Oxford University (Eldon Scholar) and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School (Kennedy Scholar).

    Experience

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    SELECTED CASES AS COUNSEL:
    Before the UK Supreme Court:
  • Enka Insaat Ve Sanayi v Chubb [2020] UKSC 38
  • Halliburton v Chubb Bermuda [2020] UKSC 48
  • IPCO v Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation [2017] UKSC 16
  • Ust-Kamenogorsk v AES Ust-Kamenogorsk [2013] 1 WLR 1889
  • Jivraj v Hashwani [2011] 1 WLR 1872
  • Dallah Real Estate v Min of Religious Affairs, Govt of Pakistan [2010] 3 WLR 1472
    • Before the English Court of Appeal:
  • Minister of Finance & 1MDB v IPIC & AABAR [2019] EWCA Civ 2080
  • Benkharbouche & Janah v Embassy of Rep of Sudan; Libya [2015] EWCA Civ 33
  • Syska v Vivendi Universal SA [2009] EWCA Civ 677
  • Rep of Ecuador v. Occidental Exploration & Production Co [2006] 1 Q.B. 432
  • Weissfisch v Julius [2006] 1 Lloyd’s Law Rep 716; [2006] 2 All ER (Comm) 504
  • LG Caltex Gas Co Ltd v. China National Petroleum Corp [2001] 1 WLR 1892
  • AT&T Corp v. Saudi Cable Co [2000] 2 Lloyd’s Law Rep 127
  • Wealands v. CLC Contractors Ltd [1999] 2 Lloyd’s Law Rep 739
    • Before the Hong Kong Courts:
  • Astro Nusantara Int’l BV v PT First Media TBK [2018] HKCFA 12; FACV 14/2017
  • Astro Nusantara Int’l BV v Pt Ayunda Prima Mitra CACV 272/2015 (HKCA)
  • Astro Nusantara Int’l B.V. v PT First Media TBK HCCT 45/2010 (HKCFI)
    • Before the Singapore Courts:
  • DJP v DJO [2025] SGCA(I) 2
  • CFJ & CFK v CFL & CFM [2023] SGHC(I) 1
  • CZT v CZU [2023] SGHC(I) 11
  • CNA v CNB, CNC [2023] SGHC(I) 6
  • CNA v CNB [2022] 3 SLR 604; [2021] SGHC 192
  • Hin Leong Trading (Pte) Ltd v Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP [2022] SGCA 28
  • Lim Oon Kuin & ors v Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP [2022] SGCA 29
  • Crest Capital Asia Pte Ltd v OUE Lippo Healthcare Ltd [2021] SGCA 25
  • Oro Negro Drilling Pte v Integradora de Servicios [2019] SGCA 74
  • ARW v Comptroller of Income Tax [2019] 1 SLR 499
  • Sun Travels & Tours v Hilton [2019] SGHC 291
  • Civelli, Carlo Giuseppe v Mulacek, Philippe Emanuel [2019] SGHC 182
  • Lakshmi Anil Salgaocar v Jhaveri Darsan [2019] 2 SLR 372
  • The Wellness Group Pte v Paris Investment [2018] 2 SLR 973
  • Hilton Int’l Manage (Maldives) v Sun Travels [2018] SGHC 56 & [2019] 1 SLR 732
  • PT First Media (& Ors) v. Astro Nusantara Int’l BV [2013] SGCA 57
    • In International Commercial, Investor-State & Inter-State Arbitration:
  • The Railway Land Arbitration (Malaysia/Singapore) 2014 (PCA)
  • Case B1: Iran v USA (Iran-US Claims Tribunal)
  • AI Jazeera Media Network v. Egypt (lCSID Case No. ARB/16/1)
  • Fouad Alghanim v Jordan (ICSID Case No. ARB/13/38)
  • KLS Energy Lanka v Sri Lanka (ICSID Case No ARB / 18 / 39)
  • Vodafone v India (UNCITRAL Proceedings)
  • Deutsche Bank AG v. Sri Lanka (ICSID Case No. ARB/09/2)
  • White Industries v India (UNCITRAL Proceedings)
  • Chevron v. Bangladesh (ICSID Case No. ARB/06/10)
  • Foresti v South Africa (ICSID Case ARB(AF)/07/1)
  • Fondel v Azerbaijan (ICSID Case ARB/07/1)
  • Turkcell v Iran (UNCITRAL Arbitration)
  • Türkiye Petrolleri Anonim Ortaklığı v. Kazakhstan (ICSID Case No. ARB/11/02)
  • KT Asia v Republic of Kazakhstan (ICSID Case No. ARB/09/8)
  • MNSS B.V. and Recupero v. Montenegro (ICSID Case No. ARB(AF)/12/8)
  • Global Telecom Holding (Formerly Orascom) v. Algeria (UNCITRAL Proceedings)
  • Hydro S.r.l & ors v The Republic of Albania (ICSID Case No. ARB/15/28)
  • Raymond Charles Eyre & Montrose v Sri Lanka (ICSID Case No. ARB/16/25)
  • Maxis Communications v India (UNCITRAL Arbitration)
    • AS ARBITRATOR:
  • Chairman / Co-Arbitrator / Sole Arbitrator in over 200 major international commercial and investor-state arbitrations, including under ICSID, HKIAC, SIAC, ICC; LCIA; AAA; Stockholm Chamber of Commerce; Netherlands Arbitration Institute; International Arbitral Centre of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber; ARIAS; CCIG (Swiss Rules); CRCICA; UNCITRAL Rules.

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