Derek Yixin

Associate, London

Biography

Overview

Derek Yixin is an associate in the International Arbitration and Construction & Engineering Groups in London. He has advised on a range of complex international disputes, including those arising out of the energy, oil & gas and infrastructure industries.

Derek joined White & Case as a trainee and he has obtained experience in the Firm's Construction & Engineering, Commercial Litigation and Debt Finance Groups in London, and with the Capital Markets Group in the Firm's Paris office.

Bars and Courts
England and Wales, Solicitor
Education
Legal Practice Course
BPP Law School
Bachelor of Laws
King's College London
Languages
English

Experience

Acting for a consortium of Japanese and Korean contractors in a SIAC arbitration over the construction of one of the largest petrochemical refineries in Southeast Asia.

Representing the owner in an ICC arbitration relating to claims arising under a design-build contract relating to the civil works for an international airport in the Middle East.