​Name: 
Henk Louw FPD
Location:  
South Africa
Contact details: 
Detailed CV available on request from Prime Dispute. 

Qualifications: 
Advocate of The High Court of South Africa, B Com Law LLB,  FAArb, FCIArb, FPD

Specialisation: 
Legal, Arbitration, Adjudication and Mediation 

Languages:
Arfikaans & English 

Regions served: 
South Africa, UK, EU, Asia and further international regions as requested
Industry Sectors:*​​​​​​
  • Commercial & Criminal
  • Insurance 
  • Petroleum 
  • Company Law 
  • Liquidation 
  • Contractual 
Practice Areas: *​​​
  • Arbitration​​
  • Adjudication
  • Mediation 



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Background information: 
Henk Louw is a practicing advocate of the Rivonia Group of Advocates in Sandton, Republic of South Africa. He was admitted as an Advocate of the High Court of South Africa in 1990 and as an Advocate of the High Court of the Kingdom of Lesotho. His practice comprises general commercial arbitration, adjudication, mediation, and litigation with a focus insurance matters, liquidation matters, contractual disputes, delictual disputes, the petroleum industry, commercial crime, and revenue related matters.

​Henk appeared in various, tribunal’s and forums in France, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region-People's Republic of China, Singapore and Reunion. His court appearances over more than 25 years include the High Courts, the Supreme Court of Appeal of both the Republic of South Africa and the Kingdom of Lesotho. The judgments in 37 of his litigious matters have been reported in the Law Reports.

Henk is a Fellow of Prime Dispute, a Fellow of the Association of Arbitrators (Southern Africa), a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK), a Member of the African Arbitration Association and a General and Commercial Panel Member of the Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa (AFSA). He is a Module 2 Tutor, an accredited Arbitrator, Adjudicator and Mediator of the Association of Arbitrators (Southern Africa) and an Arbitrator of the Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa. He was the principal author of the AFSA Remote Hearing Protocol and he was further a panellist in the Chartered Institute of Arbitrator’s YGM ADR World Tour with reference to Africa, more particularly the Southern African Development Community.
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He serves on the current Panel of Arbitrators/Mediators for the Shanghai International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (also known as the Shanghai International Arbitration Center)

Overview: ​​
  • Practising Advocate and Member of the Legal Practice Council and Johannesburg Society of Advocates;
  • Practising Advocate and Member of the Law Society of Lesotho Commercial and General Panel Arbitrator – Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa (AFSA);
  • Fellow Arbitrator Adjudicator – Association of Arbitrators (Southern Africa);
  • Fellow – Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK);
  • Member – African Arbitration Association;
  • Accredited Mediator – Society of Mediators (London) and Association of Arbitrators (Southern Africa).
Detailed CV available on request from Prime Dispute. 
*Prime Dispute also provides a 'Formal Appointment Service', All our senior neutrals who are officially appointed will need to comply with our ' Formal Criteria' before nomination.
*Conflict checks would need to be undertaken prior to the neutral being formally appointed.