Earl Rivera-Dolera

Earl Rivera-Dolera

Partner

Singapore

  • Language : English, Tagalog
  • Mail : earl.dolera@tkilaw.com

Earl Rivera-Dolera is a partner at TKI. Prior to joining the firm, she was a partner and head of international arbitration at Frasers Law Company (formerly Freehills) in Vietnam, where she represented entities and individuals in arbitrations under the rules of major arbitral institutions (ICC, SIAC, VIAC, JCAA) and commercial mediations under SIMC rules in Singapore, and ad hoc rules in New York. She was also an independent arbitrator and a tribunal secretary to prominent international arbitrators at The Arbitration Chambers in Singapore.

Earl also serves as arbitrator appointed as chair, sole and party-nominated arbitrator by the major arbitral institutions.

Recognition

2024

Who’s Who Legal 2024: Arbitration

Chambers and Partners, Dispute resolution: international arbitration

Legal 500, Dispute resolution: arbitration (Southeast asia – Vietnam)

EXPERIENCE

2004 – 2006
Justice’s Law Clerk, Court of Appeals (Philippines)
2006 – 2010
Public Attorney (Philippines)
2010 – 2011
Legal Executive, Ari Goh and Partners (Singapore)
2012 – 2020
Arbitrator, Tribunal Law Clerk to prominent international arbitrators, The Arbitration Chambers (Singapore)
2021 – 2024
Frasers Law Company (Partner / Head, International Arbitration) (Vietnam)
Sep. 2024 –
Joined Tokyo International Law Office

QUALIFICATION

  • 2005 Philippines
  • 2020 Certified Information Privacy Professional, Europe (GDPR)
  • 2020 Solicitor, England and Wales
  • 2021 New York and Texas, U.S.
  • Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
  • Fellow, Singapore Institute of Arbitrators

EDUCATION

2004
J.D., Xavier (Ateneo de Cagayan) University
2012
LL.M., International Business Law, National University of Singapore
2018
LL.M., International Economic Law and Business Policy, Stanford Law School (U.S.)

OTHER

  • Appointed and/or empaneled as arbitrator (sole, chair or party-nominated) and mediator in ICC, HKIAC, SIAC, JCAA, KCAB, CAA, THAC, AIAC, VIAC, E-bram
  • Acted as arbitrator with seats of arbitration in Japan, Singapore, Vietnam, Philippines, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia.

Publication

2017, 2020
Co-author with Professor Lawrence Boo, “Halsbury’s Laws of Singapore: Arbitration” (LexisNexis)

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