China Arbitration Week 2026 - Vietnam & China Arbitration Dialogue: Construction Disputes, Institutional Perspectives and Cross-border Practice

Vietnam International Arbitration Centre (VIAC), in collaboration with Society of Construction Law in Vietnam - SCLVN and Beijing DHH Law Firm (DHH), will organize the event "Vietnam - China Arbitration Dialogue: Construction Disputes, Institutional Perspectives and Cross-border Practice" - a partner event within the framework of China Arbitration Week 2026 (CAW 2026)

INTRODUCTION

As economic and commercial ties between Vietnam and China continue to deepen, businesses from both countries are expanding their cross-border trade and investment activities. With Vietnamese and Chinese investors strengthening their presence across the two markets, they must navigate differences in legal frameworks, contracting approaches and dispute resolution mechanisms. In particular, infrastructure development and construction are among the areas in which such cross-border investment has become increasingly active, involving complex contractual arrangements and multiple stakeholders across jurisdictions.

Construction projects are typically large in scale, more complex in structure, long in duration, and involve numerous participating parties. As a result, construction disputes are not simply a matter of pure legal issues, but are often intertwined with technical, project management, and contract governance matters, as well as requirements to comply with international standards. This places increasingly high demands on dispute resolution mechanisms: it must be efficient, specialised, and flexible, while also ensuring fairness, transparency, and enforceability. In this context, arbitration is increasingly affirming its role as a method suited to the specific characteristics of the construction industry – not only helping to protect the parties' rights and interests, but also contributing to ensuring the progress, stability, and effective implementation of key infrastructure projects, thereby building confidence among both domestic and foreign investors.

It is in this spirit that the Vietnam International Arbitration Centre (VIAC), together with the Society of Construction Law – Vietnam (SCLVN) and Beijing DHH Law Firm (DHH), convenes the Vietnam–China Arbitration Dialogue: Construction Disputes, Institutional Perspectives and Cross-Border Practice, a Partner Event of China Arbitration Week 2026. Bringing together arbitral institutions, practitioners, arbitrators and construction law experts from Vietnam and China, the Dialogue will facilitate exchanges on recent developments in arbitration, construction and commercial disputes involving parties from both jurisdictions, as well as practical approaches to dispute avoidance and resolution.

EVENT DETAILS

Date and Time: 9.00 AM – 12.00 PM, 16 September 2026 (Wednesday)

Venue: DHH Law Firm Headquarters, Tower C, Yintai Centre, No. 2 Jianguomenwai Avenue, Chaoyang District, Beijing, P.R. China

Language: English & Chinese (Simultaneously Interpretation)

Key topics:

• Vietnam’s Arbitration Landscape: Developments, Trends and Cross-Border Perspectives;
• Construction Dispute Resolution in Vietnam and China: Practical Challenges, Practitioner Perspectives and the Path Forward;
• Strategic Contract Governance, Risk Mitigation, and Institutional Dispute Avoidance in Cross-Border Construction.

Moderator & Speakers:

Contact for Further Information

For more information or to register, please contact: Ms. Huong Pham at event@viac.org.vn.

Registration Link

Please access and register at the following link: http://www.chinaarbitrationweek.org/index/activity/detail/id/870.html