Tai-Heng Cheng, senior legal advisor to Hoguet Newman Regal & Kenney, LLP, specializes in international litigation and arbitration, as well as white collar defense.

He is a member of the panels of neutrals of the AAA/ICDR, CPR and HKIAC, and has served as chair, arbitrator, counsel and expert in disputes under ICDR, ICC, UNCITRAL, JAMS and ICSID rules, as well as multi-jurisdiction proceedings in the United States and abroad. Additionally, he has defended securities firms, directors and officers in regulatory investigations and lawsuits, shareholder class action claims, and government prosecutions.

His recent engagements include: representing a foreign asset management company in a €30 mn. international arbitration with a French financial institution; advising a hedge fund in a $400 mn. lawsuit against a sovereign state; advising a Balkan state on matters of state succession; chairing an international arbitration involving a franchise dispute between European and Latin American corporations; and serving as an expert on international law in an investor-state arbitration.

Professor Cheng has also been associate professor and associate director of the Center for International Law, New York Law School, since 2006.  He was a visiting associate professor at Vanderbilt Law School and City University of Hong Kong School of Law in 2010 and 2008, respectively.  From 2003 to 2006, Prof. Cheng practiced law at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP. Prior to that time, he advised the Singapore Police Force and the Prosecutor-General of the U.N. Transitional Administration in East Timor.  U.S. Federal Appeals and District Courts have cited and relied on Professor Cheng’s international law scholarship as persuasive authority.

He is an elected member of the American Law Institute, the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law, and the Academic Council of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration. He is also Honorary Fellow of the Foreign Policy Association.

Prof. Cheng is admitted to practice before the courts of the State of New York, and the U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of New York, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

He holds a Doctor of the Science of Law degree and a Master of Laws degree from Yale Law School, where he was Howard M. Holtzman Fellow for International Law. He also holds a Master of Arts degree and a law degree with first class honors from Oxford University, where he was Oxford University Scholar.