Sala Sihombing

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Areas of Expertise: Mediation

Sala works full-time as a mediator in Hong Kong working in commercial mediation and primarily family mediation. She is an accredited mediator (Australia NMAS) (USA FINRA) (Hong Kong HKMAAL/HKIAC) (UK CEDR) and family mediator (HKMAAL). She teaches as an adjunct lecturer at HKU in the LLM ADR Programme (Financial Dispute Resolution / Family Mediation). Sala originally qualified as a solicitor in the UK (1995) and HK (1996). She attended the University of Bristol (LLB Hons) and Pepperdine University (LLM).

Sala worked for 14 years in investment banking, in the legal department (Peregrine and Credit Agricole) and then on trading floor at Morgan Stanley Hong Kong in Institutional Equity heading transaction management and then product development.

Sala’s publications include:
• Mediation in Hong Kong: Law and Practice co-authored with Christopher To, James Chiu (CCH Ho.                      ng Kong) (June 2014) (2nd edition due early 2022)
• Reforming Hong Kong’s Child & Family Justice System co-edited with Anne Scully-Hill and Katherine Lynch) The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press (November 2016)
• The International Survey of Family Law 2018, (Intersentia), Hong Kong contributor Chapter 11
• Modern Mediation: Equity’s Heir (upcoming Volume 37 2022 Ohio State Journal of Dispute Resolution)