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Peter Megens

Address: 

Level 50
600 Bourke Street
Melbourne, Victoria 3000
Australia

King & Spalding
Level 31
9 Raffles Place, Republic Plaza
Singapore 048619

Phone Number: 
+61 417 059 247
Fax Number: 
+61 3 9643 5999
Email: 
peter.megens@outlook.com
Born: 
1955, Melbourne, Australia
Languages: 
English
Nationalities: 
Australian
Netherlands
Education: 
Melbourne University: LLB (First Class Honors), 1979 and B.Com 1978
Graduate Diploma in Finance Law, 1997
Bar Admission or Professional License: 
Admitted to the Supreme Court of Victoria and High and Federal Courts of Australia, 1 April 1980
Admitted in all Australian States and Territories
Present Position: 
Partner, King & Wood Mallesons; Adjunct Professor of Law, Murdoch University
Professional Experience: 

Partner, Wainwright Ryan, Solicitors 1986 – 1991; Partner, Minter Ellison, Solicitors 1991 – 2000; Partner, King & Wood Mallesons (formerly Mallesons Stephen Jaques), 2000 – 2013

Professional Associations: 

Member, Law Institute of Victoria; National Chairman, the Construction and Infrastructure Law Committee of the Law Council of Australia; Fellow, the Australian Centre for National Commercial Arbitration; Fellow, Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia; Fellow , Singapore Institute of Arbitrators; Members, Buildings Practitioners’ Society; Member, the Society of Construction Law Australia

Panels of Arbitrators: 

Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration; International Arbitrators and Mediators Australia

Arbitration Experience: 

Counsel for and sole arbitrator in a variety of matters having acted in many domestic construction and general arbitrations and including international arbitration matters

Areas of Specialization: 
Arbitration & ADR
Commodities - Metals
Construction
Construction Contracts
Contracts
Publications from JURIS: 
Publications: 
  • "Compulsion of Evidence in International Commercial Arbitration: An Asia-Pacific Perspective" (2006) 2 AIAJ 32, co-authored with Peter Chow and Paul Starr
  • "Mandatory national laws in international arbitration" co-authored with Max Bonnell (2007) 81 ALJ 259
  • “Meeting Disputants' Needs in the Current Climate: What Has Gone Wrong with Arbitration and How Can We Repair It?" by Peter Megens and Beth Cubitt, The Arbitrator and Mediator, Australia
  • Case Note: “Powers of an Arbitrator – Yarraman Pine Pty Ltd v. Forestry Plantations Queensland”[2009] QCA 102 by Peter Megens and Jade Adams, Australian Construction Law Newsletter #129 November/December 2009
  • “Arbitrators’ Perspective: The Evolving Face of International Arbitration – The Past, The Present and the Future” co-authored with Beth Cubitt, International Arbitration Law Review, February 2010
  • “Australia’s new arbitration regime enhances efficiency in arbitration procedures”, IBA Arbitration News, Vol 15, No. 1, March 2010
  • “The Continuing Role of the State Supreme Courts in Domestic and International Arbitration in Australia - An overview of three recent arbitration decisions in Australia” co-authored with Beth Cubitt, ADRJ, May 2010
  • “Opting Out of Model Law” by Peter Megens and Beth Cubitt, Construction Law International, Volume 5, Issue 4, December 2010
  • “Emerging Trends in Judicial Approach to International Arbitration in Australia: The Winds of Change” co-authored with Beth Cubitt, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, 77 Arbitration, Issue 1, February 2011
  • “International Arbitral Awards and their Enforcement in Australia” – The ACICA News, June 2011, page 13
  • “International Arbitration Amendment Act 2010 (Cth) – Towards a New Brand of Australian International Arbitration” coauthored with Adam Peters in (2011) 2, The Western Australian Jurist 149 “Singapore Arbitration and the Courts”, Arbitration, the International Journal of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, February 2012
  • “Arbitration in Australia: An Arbitrator’s Right to be Wrong” King & Wood Mallesons, co-authored with Drossos Stamboulakis, March 2013