Singapore Convention on Mediation

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Practice notes

Singapore Convention on Mediation

Copyright © 2025 LexisNexis

Produced in partnership with Ben Giaretta of Fox Williams LLP

Practice notes
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What is the Singapore Convention?

The United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation was signed in Singapore on 7 August 2019, and is known as the Singapore Convention.

The primary goals of the Singapore Convention are to facilitate international trade and promote the use of mediation for the resolution of cross-border commercial Disputes (UNCITRAL accession kit).

The intention is to have a uniform and efficient framework for the Enforcement of international settlement agreements resulting from mediation and for allowing parties to invoke such agreements, akin to the framework that the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the New York Convention) provides for arbitral awards (UNCITRAL accession kit).

The structure of the Singapore Convention is modelled on the structure of the New York Convention.

When did the Singapore Convention come into force?

The Singapore Convention came into force on Saturday, 12 September 2020 six months after the deposit at the United Nations of the third instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession as per Article 14—the third ratification

Ben Giaretta
Ben Giaretta

Partner and Co-head of the International Arbitration team at Fox Williams LLP, Fox Williams LLP

Ben Giaretta is a Partner and the Co-Head of International Arbitration at Fox Williams LLP. He is the current Chair of the London Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is a Chartered Arbitrator, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators, and he is on the panels of arbitrators of several arbitration institutions, including the SCCA, SIAC and the HKIAC. He lectures on international arbitration at the University of Aberdeen and for the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

His experience spans many industry sectors, including oil and gas, mining, petrochemicals, telecommunications, shipping, finance, insurance, construction, engineering and infrastructure. He has represented clients on disputes throughout the world, including Europe, Africa and the Americas, and particularly in Asia: he lived and worked in Singapore for seven years. He appears as counsel in international arbitration and often sits as an arbitrator: he has been appointed as sole arbitrator, party nominated arbitrator, presiding arbitrator and emergency arbitrator, on many occasions. 

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