SIAA 2013 Profiles

Mr Menon graduated with Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) from the National University of Singapore in 1986 and later obtained a Master of Laws degree from Harvard Law School in 1991. He was admitted as an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore in 1987 and as an Attorney and Counsellor-at-law of the Bar of the State of New York in 1992. He was appointed Senior Counsel in January 2008.

As a private practitioner, Mr Menon was recognised as one of the leading lawyers in the fields of commercial litigation and arbitration, insolvency and construction law, in Singapore and abroad. He advised and represented numerous local and overseas clients in complex and technical disputes and appeared before as well as in arbitration tribunals in various jurisdictions.

Mr Menon has also served as the Deputy Chairman of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre and has represented Singapore at the UNCITRAL Working Group on Arbitration.

From April 2006 to March 2007, Mr Menon served as a Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court and presided over several prominent criminal and civil cases in the High Court. After completing his term on the Bench, he returned to Rajah & Tann becoming the Managing Partner in August 2009, a position he held until his appointment as the Attorney-General on 1 October 2010. Mr Menon relinquished his position as the Attorney-General on 24 June 2012 and was appointed as a Judge of Appeal of the Supreme Court on 1 August 2012. On 6 November 2012, Mr Menon was appointed as the Chief Justice of Singapore.

Mr Steven Chong Horng Siong, S.C. graduated with Bachelor of Laws (Second Class, Upper Division Honours) from the National University of Singapore in 1982. He was admitted as an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore in 1983.Mr Chong started his legal practice at Drew & Napier where he spent 14 years starting as an associate, and leaving when he was joint Managing Partner. He then spent 12 years in Rajah & Tann and was a Senior Partner and then its Managing Partner. In January 1998, he was appointed Senior Counsel.Mr Chong was a leading commercial lawyer and argued many cases in court. Mr Chong was also a senior member of the Singapore arbitration community and participated in arbitrations both as counsel as well as arbitrator. He is an accredited Arbitrator of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre and the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration.From 1 October 2009 to 30 May 2010, Mr Chong served as a Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court. He was appointed as a Supreme Court Judge from 1 June 2010 until 24 June 2012. During his term, he presided over a wide range of cases and delivered significant judgments covering diverse areas of the law including criminal, constitutional, banking, defamation and shipping law.Mr Chong assumed office as the Attorney-General on 25 June 2012.

Sir Christopher Greenwood has been a Judge of the International Court of Justice since February 2009. He was educated at Raeburn Park School, Singapore, Wellingborough School and Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, where he is now an Honorary Fellow. Prior to his election to the International Court by the United Nations, he was Professor of International Law at the London School of Economics and a barrister. Sir Christopher was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1978 and was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1999. He was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) for services to international law in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2002 and was knighted in the 2009 New Year Honours. Sir Christopher holds the degrees of BA (Law) (First Class Hons), LLB (International Law) (First Class Hons) and MA from the University of Cambridge. Before becoming a Judge, he acted as counsel for numerous States and private clients in both domestic and international courts and tribunals, as well as sitting as an arbitrator in a number of cases. He is the editor of the International Law Reports and author of a number of articles on international law.

Lord Hoffmann is a retired Law Lord who accepts appointments as an arbitrator and mediator.

He was an advocate of the Supreme Court of South Africa 1958-60, called to the English Bar by Gray’s Inn in 1964 and appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1977. He was a appointed a judge of the High Court (Chancery Division) 1985-1992, elevated to the Court of Appeal 1992-1995 and appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary 1995-2009. From 1980 to 1985 he was a part time member of the Courts of Appeal in Jersey and Guernsey. Since 1998 he has been a non-permanent judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong.

In his career at the Bar he undertook a wide range of commercial and property disputes including ICC and Swedish Chamber of Commerce arbitrations. During his judicial career his recent leading judgments concerning arbitration have included; Fiona Trust v Primalov (2007), Premium Nafta Products Ltd v Fili Shipping Company Ltd [2007] UKHL 40, West Tankers Inc v RAS Riunione Adriatica (2007).

In the period since 2009 he has sat as an arbitrator in over forty arbitral proceedings under the rules of the ICC, the LCIA and ICSID in disputes concerning commercial, property, intellectual property rights, private international law and public international law.

The Honourable James Spigelman AC QC served as Chief Justice of New South Wales, Australia’s largest state, from 1998 until the end May 2011. After his retirement as Chief Justice he joined One Essex Court as an arbitrator. He has since been appointed Chair of panels in London, Singapore and Dubai, as sole arbitrator determining a legal privilege issue on reference from a NAFTA Tribunal, as sole arbitrator in two, related, disputes in Sydney and as a party appointed arbitrator on two panels in London and on a panel in Kuala Lumpur. He has been appointed a Non-Permanent Judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal.

From 1972 James Spigelman was Senior Advisor and Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of Australia, before appointment as Permanent Secretary of the Department of Media in 1975. He was a member of the Australian Law Reform Commission from 1976 to 1979. He commenced practice at the NSW Bar in 1980. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1986. He was acting Solicitor General of New South Wales in 1997. He has served on the boards and as chair of a number of cultural and educational institutions. He is currently chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

James Spigelman is the author of three books, co-author of a fourth and of some 170 published articles, including on a range of aspects of commercial and corporate law such as contractual interpretation, insurance law, commercial arbitration, insolvency, international commercial litigation, freezing orders and proof of foreign law. Three volumes of his speeches as Chief Justice have been published.

Sir Franklin (Frank) Berman joined HM Diplomatic Service in 1965 and was Legal Adviser to the Foreign & Commonwealth Office from 1991-99. For the past14 years he has been in practice in Essex Court Chambers specializing in international arbitration and advisory work in international law. He is Visiting Professor of International Law at the Universities of Oxford and Cape Town and Chairman of the Trustees of the British Institute of International & Comparative Law.

His long career in international law and diplomacy has spanned a wide and varied field, including settlement of disputes; the law of treaties; State responsibility; diplomatic and State immunity; maritime delimitation; the law of the Continental shelf; outer space and nuclear energy; the law of international organizations; the UN Security Council; the laws of war and neutrality; international criminal tribunals; and numerous other areas.

Sir Frank has served as Judge ad hoc on the International Court of Justice in the Case concerning Certain Property (Liechtenstein v. Germany) and as the Legal Member of the Court of Arbitration between Pakistan and India under the Indus Waters Treaty. He currently represents Cambodia before the International Court in the Case concerning the Temple of Préah Vihéar.

He was appointed by the British Government in 2004 to the list of Arbitrators under the Washington Convention (ICSID), and is currently sitting or has recently sat in three ICSID arbitrations as Chairman and seven as Party-appointed Arbitrator, and in four ICSID annulment proceedings, as well as in arbitrations under the ICC, Stockholm Arbitration Institute and LCIA (sole arbitrator), and ad hoc.

He is the former Chairman of the Diplomatic Service Appeal Board, and the Appeals Boards of the WEU and IOPCF, and currently chairs the Claims Committee of the Austrian General Settlement Fund for Victims of Nazi persecution. In 2006 the Republic of Austria awarded him the Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold with Star. Since 2010 he has been a Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration.

Sébastien Besson is a partner since 2006 of Python & Peter, one of the major Swiss firms, with offices in several cities in Switzerland (Geneva, Lausanne, Bern, Zoug, Sion), in Brussels and in Tokyo.

His main focus of practice is international arbitration as counsel and arbitrator.

He has been acting as chairman, sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator and counsel in many international and domestic arbitrations under the rules of several institutions and in ad hoc cases in Switzerland and abroad (notably, ICC, UNCITRAL Rules, Swiss Rules, Zurich and Geneva Rules, Court of Arbitration for Sports).

Sébastien Besson also represents parties in court proceedings related to arbitration (notably challenges against arbitral award).

He published numerous treaties and articles in the field of international arbitration, including “‘Comparative Law of International Arbitration” (2nd ed., Sweet & Maxwell, 2007, co-authored with Professor Jean-François Poudret).

Sébastien Besson is Professor at the University of Neuchâtel and teaches international commercial arbitration in the Geneva Master in International Dispute Settlement (www.mids.ch).

He has been a speaker at various conferences, university programmes and events in Switzerland and abroad.

Sébastien Besson was educated at the Lausanne University, where he received his Doctorate in Law in 1997 (Prix de la Fondation Fleuret, Lauréat de l’Université de Lausanne, Prix Walther Hug), and at Columbia University (New York), from which he holds an LL.M (2000).

He is fluent in French and English, and has good knowledge of German.

Professor Lawrence Boo heads The Arbitration Chambers since its founding in 1996. Formerly the Deputy Chairman (2004-2009) and first Chief Executive Officer and Registrar (1991-1996) of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, Prof Boo is well recognised as Singapore’s leading international arbitrator, having sat as arbitrator in more than 200 cases and written numerous awards. His cases included those administered by the ICC, CIETAC, SIAC, LCIA, HKIAC and ad hoc arbitrations. He has mediated over 75 disputes.

He is on the Panel of International Arbitrators and Mediators of the American Arbitration Association (AAA) New York, the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), China Maritime Arbitration Commission (CMAC), Beijing Arbitration Commission (BAC), Korean Commercial Arbitration Board (KCAB), the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration (KLRCA) and the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC).

The Chairman of the International Commission for Investment Disputes (ICSID) had in September 2011 nominated Prof Boo to the ICSID Panel of Conciliators for a term of 6 years.

Prof Boo is the author of “Halsbury’s Laws of Singapore Volume 1(2) – Arbitration” (Lexis-Nexis 2011 Re-issue) and the chapter on Singapore in the book “International Handbook on Commercial Arbitration” (Kluwer 1996, 2002 and 2011 Supplements). He has also contributed chapters to many books including “Dispute Resolution in Asia” (Kluwer, 1997); “ADR in Asian and Pacific Countries , Now and in the Future” (Ministry of Justice, Japan, 2003); “The Asian Leading Arbitrator’s Guide to International Arbitration” (JurisNet LLC, New York, 2007) and is the regular contributor to the “Annual Review of Singapore” chapter on “Arbitration” since 2001. His papers have also been published in various international journals including the Journal of International Arbitration, Asian International Arbitration Journal, Asia Business Law Review, Chinese Yearbook of Private International and Comparative Law (Peking University Press), Dispute Resolution Journal (London) and the Asian Business Lawyer (Korea University). He is on the editorial board of the Oxford International Arbitration Series, (Oxford University Press) and a General Editor of the Asian International Arbitration Journal.

Prof Boo is a Law Reform Consultant to the Attorney-General’s Chambers and led the Singapore delegation at UNCITRAL working group meetings on arbitration (2004-2009).

Mr. Bose is a partner in the Singapore office of K&L Gates and leads the firm’s Commercial Disputes and International Arbitration practice in Asia. He has more than 20 years experience in international dispute resolution and has worked in both London and Singapore. He is qualified both as an Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore as well as admitted as a Solicitor of England & Wales.

Mr. Bose is on the panel of arbitrators of a number of arbitration institutions including the SIAC, KLRCA, ICA and HKIAC. He is also a Board Member and Director of the UK Chartered Institute of Arbitrators – Singapore Branch.

Mr. Bose has experience conducting international arbitrations with seats in Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Vietnam, China, India, Dubai, Malaysia, London, Paris, Geneva and New York under a variety of trade association and international arbitration centre rules. He also has considerable experience supervising, coordinating and managing complex court-based litigation in a wide number of countries in the Middle East, Africa and the Asia-Pacific region including South Asia, Indo-China and South-East Asia.

Teresa Cheng GBS SC JP FICE, FCIArb is a Senior Counsel, Chartered Engineer, Chartered Arbitrator and Accredited Mediator. She is a Vice President of the International Council of Commercial Arbitration (ICCA), Vice-President of the ICC International Court of Arbitration, as well as, and Vice Chairperson of Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC).

She is a member of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) panel of Arbitrators, designated by the Chairman of the ICSID Administrative Council. She was Past President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), and a past Chairman of its East Asia Branch. She is also a Council Member of China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Committee (CIETAC) and a panel arbitrator of Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). She also sits as a Deputy Judge in the Court of First Instance of the High Court of Hong Kong.

Ms Cheng is a Fellow of King’s College, London, and Visiting Professor of the School of Law of Tsinghua University, Beijing, Adjunct Professor in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Ms Cheng has co-authored numerous books and articles in journals and seminars. Some of her recent publications include “Construction Law and Practice in Hong Kong” and “Arbitration in Hong Kong: A Practical Guide”, published by Sweet & Maxwell, as well as papers in the “International Council for Commercial Arbitration Congress Series”, published by Kluwer Law International.

Dato’ Cyrus Das joined the firm in 1973 as an associate. He became a partner in 1979. He is currently the Managing Partner and heads the General & Civil Litigation department. His field of practice is largely in appellate work before the Court of Appeal and the Federal Court, which is Malaysia’s apex court. A large number of cases conducted by him are reported in the local law reports and cover a wide range from commercial, contract and tax cases to the leading local cases in administrative and constitutional law.

Dinesh’s areas of practice encompass international arbitration, litigation, international trade, insurance and employment law. He has successfully argued cases at all levels of Court in Singapore including its highest court, the Court of Appeal.

Cases where Dinesh has represented and advised clients include the
following:

• advising a leading global telecommunications enterprise on its rights under Bilateral investment treaties and international law in relation to its investment valued at approximately US$2 billion in Indonesia;
• represented a foreign government in a US$1.4 billion ICC arbitration involving an airport terminal;
• acted for a foreign government in successfully resisting the setting aside of an ICC award involving the construction of an airport terminal where the value of the dispute was approximately US$1.4 billion;
• successfully represented a US based multi-national corporation in the landmark Aloe Vera of America, Inc v Asianic Food High Court decision regarding the enforcement of a New York Convention foreign arbitral award against a non-signatory to the arbitration agreement;
• represented a leading international sports promoter in an application to set aside an International Arbitral Award on grounds of public policy before the Court of Appeal (AJT v AJU). This case won the Asian-MENA Counsel’s Deal of the Year award for 2011.

Dinesh was called to the Singapore Bar in 1995. In 2004, Dinesh obtained the Graduate Certificate in International Arbitration from the National University of Singapore. Dinesh is recommended for his expertise in arbitration and commercial litigation and dispute resolution in leading publications, such as The Asia Pacific Legal 500 where he has been described as “outstanding” and a “well respected litigator”.

Michael Ewing-Chow is an Associate Professor and WTO Chair at the Faculty of Law, NUS as well as the Head, Trade/Investment Law & Policy at CIL, NUS. He has been a Fellow at NYU. He has First Class Honours degree in law from NUS and a Masters from Harvard Law School. Michael worked in Allen & Gledhill before joining NUS. He then started the first World Trade Law course in Singapore and was involved in the negotiations for some of Singapore’s early FTAs. He has been a consultant to the Singapore Government, the ADB, ASEAN, UNCTAD, the World Bank and the WTO. Michael has advised government officials in Asia and Latin America on trade and investment law as well as corporate governance. He also assisted the Singapore Company Law Reform and Frameworks Committee in 2001 with a major overhaul of corporate law and in 2008 was appointed to a Working Group of the Steering Committee to review of the Companies Act. Michael also volunteers with NGOs and co-founded aidha, an NGO which provides financial education and microfinance opportunities for domestic migrant workers. For his work, he was the awarded the Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2007. He has received several Teaching Excellence Awards and was awarded the Inspiring Mentor Award in 2009.

Mark Feldman is Assistant Professor of Law at the Peking University School of Transnational Law. He previously served as Chief of NAFTA/CAFTA-DR Arbitration in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State. As Chief, Mark represented the United States as a Respondent or Non-Disputing Party in more than a dozen investor-State disputes and provided legal counsel supporting the negotiation of U.S. BITs and investment chapters of FTAs. Mark’s government experience also includes service as a law clerk to Judge Eric L. Clay on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Lesotho during South Africa’s transition to democracy. In the private sector, Mark practiced law for several years at Covington & Burling. Mark holds a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a James Kent Scholar, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and recipient of the Parker School Certificate in International and Comparative Law.

Kap-You (Kevin) Kim is a head of Bae, Kim & Lee LLC’s International Arbitration & Litigation Group, the recognized leader in dispute resolution in Korea and abroad. He is also a Senior Advisor, Korea Commercial Arbitration Board (KCAB); President, Korean Council for International Arbitration (KOCIA); Member, ICC International Court of Arbitration; Board Member, American Arbitration Association (AAA) and a Member of Panel of Arbitrators, ICSID & Beijing Arbitration Commission (BAC). He is on the Editorial Board of Global Arbitration Review and a Part-time Professor at the Judicial Training & Research Institute, Supreme Court of Korea.

Kap-You (Kevin) Kim received his legal education at Seoul National University Law School and Harvard Law School (LL.M.). He is an adjunct professor at Seoul National University Law College in Seoul, Korea and the author of a number of articles and publication on litigation, international arbitration practice. He is also a frequent speaker at conferences in the fields of litigation and arbitration. Notably, he is in the “45 under 45 in International Arbitration 2006” and is also listed as a leading litigator in Korea at Asia-Pacific Legal 500 (2005-2009) and in Who’s Who Legal (2006-2009).

Edmund Kronenburg is the Managing Partner of Braddell Brothers LLP, Singapore’s third-oldest law practice (established 1883).

He began his career at Drew & Napier in 1996, after graduating from the National University of Singapore where he won the Advocacy Cup, was a Mallal Moots finalist, served on the editorial board of the Singapore Law Review and represented his varsity at the Philip C Jessup International Moot Court competition, ALSA witness examination competition and various international debating competitions.

Edmund has over 16 years of experience in trials and appeals before the Singapore courts, as well as in international commercial arbitrations under inter alia the SIAC, ICC and UNCITRAL Rules. Today, he and his team are noted for representing clients in complex, high-stakes and difficult cases ordinarily regarded as the private reserve of Singapore’s largest law firms and specialist dispute resolution practices.

Between 2010 and 2012, Edmund was instructed on no less than five worldwide Mareva (Freezing) Injunctions, the largest involving assets totalling over US$400 million. In 2013, Edmund and his team (instructing Toby Landau QC) represented a prominent Indonesian client in resisting enforcement of a US$300 million arbitral award in Singapore.

Edmund is privileged to appear frequently against Senior Counsel. In 2012, he successfully appeared against Queen’s Counsel in an appeal before the Singapore High Court.

The Legal 500 (Asia Pacific, 2012 & 2013 editions) describe him as “aggressive”, “articulate”, “good strategist”, “trusted confidant” and “best in class”. Chambers & Partners Global/Asia 2013 reports that Edmund “is a top-notch lawyer who comes up with comprehensive and pragmatic advice … Besides commercial disputes he also has expertise in medical-related matters”.

In addition to his work as counsel, Edmund also sits as an Arbitrator. He is a Fellow of the CIArb, SIArb, MIArb, AMINZ and HKIArb. He is admitted to the Panel/List of Arbitrators of the KLRCA, BANI (Indonesian National Board of Arbitration), HKIAC, CAA Taipei and the VIAC.

Edmund also lectures on medical law at the DUKE-NUS postgraduate medical school (since 2009) and teaches cross-examination techniques and trial advocacy skills to second-year students at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (since 1998), as well as candidates sitting for Part B of the Singapore Bar Examinations (since 2004).

Jürgen Kurtz is an Associate Professor and Director of the International Investment Law Research Programme of the Institute for International Law and the Humanities at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Jürgen researches and teaches in the various strands of international economic law, including the jurisprudence of the World Trade Organization and that of investor-state arbitral tribunals. He has held research fellowships at the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice at New York University (as an Emile Noël Fellow), the University of Michigan Law School (as Grotius Fellow) and at the Academy of International Law in The Hague. He is the convenor of the General Course on International Investment Law at the Academy of International Trade and Investment Law in Macau. In 2010, Jürgen joined the Global Faculty at the Centre for Transnational Legal Studies in London, Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Lisbon, Bocconi University in Milan and was appointed Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence.

Toby Landau QC is a barrister and arbitrator, practising at Essex Court Chambers in London, and also a member of the New York, BVI, DIFC and Northern Ireland Bars. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2008. As Arbitrator, he has sat in numerous major international cases (both investor-State and commercial), in many countries worldwide, including ICSID; LCIA; ICC; SCC; SIAC; HKIAC; CRCICA; NAI; VIAC; and UNCITRAL matters. As Counsel, he has appeared in over 300 international arbitrations (investor-State and commercial), and argued many of the leading arbitration cases before the English Courts (including Dallah v Govt of Pakistan; Jivraj v Hashwani and Ust-Kamenogorsk v AES before the UK Supreme Court). He has also argued many high profile arbitration cases before foreign Courts, including PT First Media v Astro in the Singapore Court of Appeal; and Hubco v WAPDA in the Pakistan Supreme Court. He is a Director of the LCIA; SCC Board Member; Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; Chartered Arbitrator; UK delegate to the UNCITRAL Working Group on Arbitration; and one of the draftsmen of the English Arbitration Act 1996; the Pakistan Arbitration Ordinance of 2005; the Mauritius Arbitration Act of 2008; and the 2010 IBA Rules on Evidence. He is Visiting Professor (arbitration law) at Kings College London, and Visiting Lecturer at the Pakistan College of Law. He received the Chambers & Partners Award for “Silk of the Year” in international arbitration in 2011, and was short-listed for the same award in 2012. In April 2012, he was appointed to the Panel of Counsel of the Attorney-General of Singapore. He holds a first-class law degree and a first class BCL from Oxford University (Eldon Scholar), and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School (Kennedy Scholar).

Associate Professor Lim Lei Theng is Deputy Director of the Legal Skills Programme at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore where she coordinates and teaches in courses on Legal Analysis, Writing and Research, Trial Advocacy and legal transactional work (including drafting and negotiating agreements). She also coordinates a course for the Graduate Division of the NUS Law School which trains civil law trained graduates in the common law legal system to prepare them for their graduate work at NUS. In addition to her teaching at NUS, Lei Theng has been a consultant on teaching methodology running workshops in the region such as for the National University of Laos law school, the Hong Kong University law school, and Chulalongkorn University in Thailand.

Lei Theng was also part of the pilot project on commercial mediation at the Singapore Academy of Law and was among the first group of mediators to be appointed by the Singapore Mediation Centre (SMC). She has been a Principal Mediator with the SMC from its inception and is also an Associate Mediator at the EMCC (the only charity in Singapore dealing with mediation and counselling), and mediates at the Tribunal for Maintenance of Parents. She is also an Associate Trainer with EMCC and occasionally does training for SMC. Lei Theng has been involved in training and studies in mediation and negotiation since 1993.

Lei Theng now runs the Clinical Legal Education programme at NUS Law.

Morgan Maguire is a lawyer and the Chief Executive Officer for Investor-State LawGuide (ISLG), an online research database for investment treaty law used by leading law firms, governments, academic institutions and international organizations. Morgan has extensive experience in the development of technological tools for researching legal content. He oversees all aspects of ISLG’s business, including the document management and data capture processes, technological and content development, and sales and marketing strategies. Morgan received his B.A. from McGill University and his J.D. from Queen’s University. He is admitted to practice law in the Province of British Columbia, Canada.

Andrea Menaker is a partner in the Washington DC office of the international law firm White & Case, where she specializes in investor-State arbitration, representing both investors and States (most recently, the Republic of the Philippines, the Republic of Uzbekistan, and the Republic of Peru). Before joining White & Case, Andrea was Chief of the NAFTA Arbitration Division at the US State Department, where she was lead counsel defending the United States in investor-State arbitrations under NAFTA Chapter Eleven, made submissions on behalf of the United States on issues of treaty interpretation in arbitrations against Canada and Mexico, and helped to draft investment and dispute resolution provisions in the United States’ BITs and FTAs.

Lucy takes a hands-on role in running lean teams representing clients in high-stakes international arbitrations, focusing on strategy and advocacy. She is always where clients need her to be, wherever that is in the world.

She leads both within and outside the firm. She serves on the ICC Governing Body, the LCIA Court and the ICCA Governing Council. She recently was president of the American Society of International Law and chair of the Institute for Transactional Arbitration.

Her international experience is extensive. She sat on the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission and directed the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland. Before joining the firm, she was the first general counsel for the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization and, while with the US State Department, the US agent to the Iran-US Claims Tribunal. Following her role as general counsel of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (1995 – 1998), one of Lucy’s areas of focus is international arbitration involving South Korean public and private parties.

Lucy is co-author of the Guide to ICSID Arbitration and The Freshfields Guide to Arbitration: Clauses in International Contracts, both aimed at in-house counsel.

She is rated Band 1 for international arbitration by Chambers Global (2012), and is consistently in the top tiers of arbitration practitioners in Chambers USA and the Legal 500 US.

Tom Sprange is a partner and Solicitor Advocate in the London office of King & Spalding. He is a member of the firm’s International Arbitration Group.

Mr. Sprange’s practice focuses on significant disputes, many with a multi-jurisdictional emphasis. He has acted as Counsel in over 75 international arbitrations in the leading arbitration institutes including the ICC, AAA, SCC, LCIA and ICSID as well as a number of Ad-Hoc arbitrations. He sits as an arbitrator, both as a member of three panel tribunals and as a sole arbitrator. He has also acted as Counsel in proceedings before the High Court of England and Wales. This experience includes acting for the Claimants in arbitral proceedings that involved one of the largest ever commercial arbitration awards; securing a settlement of $1 billion in one of the largest ICSID claims pursued by an investor; acting for the Claimants in two of the leading authorities on world wide freezing orders; and acting for the Defendant in one of the leading authorities relating to relief in support of arbitration pursuant to Section 44 of the Arbitration Act 1996.

Mr. Sprange also has experience in conducting internal investigations, audits, and risk assessments for clients in the context of regulatory compliance, including of international and local anti-corruption and money laundering legislation. He has acted for large corporations, governments and individuals in this context.

He is ranked in the UK Chambers and UK Legal 500 directories for arbitration and dispute resolution. He is described as a “a real star”, “fantastic”, “impressive”, a “heavyweight arbitration lawyer”, is said to combine a “Mensa-like intellect with a down-to-earth attitude”, to posses “extensive commercial arbitration expertise”, to “not just go the extra yard in defending his client’s position, but the extra mile” and to be an “accomplished solicitor advocate”.

Mr. Sprange frequently speaks and publishes on international arbitration and regulatory issues.

Yu-Jin Tay is a partner and global co-chair of DLA Piper’s international arbitration practice, with responsibility for coordinating the firm’s international arbitration practice in Asia. Presently based in Singapore, he has practised international arbitration in Paris, London and Washington DC.

He specialises in international arbitrations arising from M&A, joint venture, oil and gas, energy, infrastructure and general commercial disputes, and has experience of arbitrations under the rules of many leading arbitral institutions including the ICC, SIAC, HKIAC, LCIA, AAA, CIETAC, DIAC, KLRCA and BANI. Since 2001, he has also had experience advising and representing investors and governments in investment treaty arbitrations.

In addition to acting as counsel, Mr Tay sits as an arbitrator and has received appointments in ICC, SIAC, LCIA and ad hoc arbitrations. He is a member of various panels of arbitrators including the SIAC, KLRCA, KCAB and VIAC.

Mr Tay also has experience conducting and coordinating corporate and internal investigations throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

Mr John Christopher Thomas QC has acted as counsel or legal advisor in GATT, Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, WTO, and NAFTA disputes, having acted both for private industry interested in the outcome of a particular dispute, and directly for governments (both as complainants and as respondents). He has acted as a Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement panelist, a GATT panelist, and argued the first State-to-State dispute to arise under the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement. He has appeared in proceedings before NAFTA and WTO Panels and the WTO Appellate Body. He is Senior Principal Research Fellow at the Centre for International Law at the National University of Singapore.

Mr Thomas has appeared as counsel in many investor-State disputes, judicial review applications involving investor-State arbitration awards, and has acted as an arbitrator or is currently acting as an arbitrator in many investment treaty claims. He has also acted as an arbitrator, including as presiding arbitrator, in various other arbitral fora, ranging from LCIA commercial arbitration to dispute settlement proceedings under Canada’s Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT).

Romesh Weeramantry has worked in the field of international arbitration and dispute settlement at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal (The Hague), the United Nations Compensation Commission (Geneva) and at a leading Swiss law firm. He was also an Associate Professor of Law at the City University of Hong Kong and still lectures part-time at on international dispute settlement, particularly arbitration and investment disputes. Additionally, he has advised a number of international organisations and trained government officials on dispute settlement and international investment law issues. At King & Wood Mallesons, he assists Neil Kaplan QC or acts as the administrative secretary to arbitral tribunals. These include a number of BIT arbitrations.

His publications include Treaty Interpretation in Investment Arbitration (Oxford UP 2012); International Commercial Arbitration: An Asia-Pacific Perspective (Cambridge UP 2011) (co-authored with Simon Greenberg and Chris Kee); and The Hong Kong Arbitration Ordinance: Commentary and Annotations (Sweet & Maxwell 2011) (co-edited with John Choong).

He was a founding Co-Chair of the Australasian Forum for International Arbitration (AFIA) and is an Editor of Asian Dispute Review.

Francis has been recognised as a leading lawyer by Asia Pacific Legal 500 (2001/2002, 2002/2003, 2003/2004, 2004/2005, 2008/2009, 2010 / 2011, 2012 and 2013), AsiaLaw Profiles (2007), Asia Law leading lawyers (2009), Chambers Global (2012 and 2013), Global Arbitration Review (2010) and Chambers Asia-Pacific (2011 and 2013).

Francis has practised cross-border commercial litigation and international arbitration for more than two decades. He specializes in corporate and commercial disputes especially in the areas of company, banking, property and financial and investment related claims. He has handled cases involving securities fraud, insider trading and general commercial fraud. He also specialises in aviation law and advised in the class-action suit resulting from the crash of the SilkAir flight in Indonesia in 1997 and the Taiwan SIA crash. Francis has acted in a number of highly publicized reported cases at trial and appellate level, including Sumitomo Bank Ltd v Kartika Ratna Thahir, the East Coast Recreation Centre and American Express Bank litigation. He has been and continues to be involved in a number of cross-border international arbitration involving the aviation, oil production, power generation and toxic wastes industries.

Alvin YEO, Senior Counsel, is the Senior Partner of WongPartnership LLP. His main areas of practice are banking and corporate disputes, restructuring and insolvency, and construction and civil engineering matters. Alvin has extensive experience as counsel in arbitration proceedings both in Singapore and in the region, and also sits as arbitrator. Alvin graduated from King’s College London, University of London, and was admitted to the English Bar (Gray’s Inn) in 1987 and the Singapore Bar in 1988. In January 2000, Alvin became the youngest lawyer to be appointed Senior Counsel.

He is a member of the Court of the SIAC, the ICC Commission on Arbitration, the Court of the LCIA, a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators and on the panel of arbitrators of the International Centre for Dispute Resolution, the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board, the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration and the South China International Economic Trade Arbitration Commission. Alvin has served on various public committees which undertook comprehensive reviews of the legal services sector. He is a member of the Appeals Advisory Panel of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and a Council member of the Singapore Business Federation. Alvin also serves on the boards of various public companies in Singapore, and is an elected Member of Parliament.

Alvin has contributed to several publications related to his main areas of practice, including the Singapore chapter in Bank Confidentiality published by Butterworths (1st to 5th editions), and in Asia Arbitration Handbook, published by Oxford University Press (2nd Edition).

Harpreet Kaur Dhillon was a Global Merit Scholar at the National University of Singapore, where she completed her LLB with a 2nd (Upper) Honours. She has previously worked in a large dispute resolution practice in Singapore, assisting a Senior Counsel on a portfolio of matters including litigation, advisory and arbitration work. Harpreet has clerked for a trial chamber judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Hague, Netherlands, providing research assistance and collaborating on drafts of written judgments. During her time at the National University of Singapore, Harpreet was an active mooter; a finalist in the Mallal Moot Court competition in 2007, a Singapore representative to the Asia Cup International Mooting competition in Tokyo in 2008, and a United Kingdom representative and grand finalist at the Phillip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition in 2009. Harpreet continues to assist in coaching moot teams representing the National University of Singapore.

Her aspiring areas of practice are public international law, international investment law and arbitration, and international human rights law. She speaks English and rudimentary French.

In the Centre for International Law, Harpreet works closely with Mr J. Christopher Thomas, Q.C. and the World Trade team.

Sarah Lim Hui Feng works with the Centre for International Law’s Mr J Christopher Thomas, Q.C., assisting him in his international investment law arbitrations and research. She previously worked for a Senior Counsel in a large Singapore dispute resolution practice.

Sarah completed her LLB with a 2nd (Upper) Honours at the National University of Singapore. An active mooter and debater during her university days, she was ranked no. 2 in the Top 100 Individual Oralist rankings at the Phillip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition (Jessup) in 2010. Her team’s written memorials were also awarded 2nd prize at Jessup’s Hardy C. Dillard memorial competition.

Yvette Anthony works with the Centre for International Law’s Mr J Christopher Thomas, Q.C., assisting him in his international investment law arbitrations and research. She previously worked for a Senior Counsel in a large Singapore dispute resolution practice.

Yvette completed her LLB with a 2nd (Upper) Honours at the National University of Singapore. During her time at the National University of Singapore, Yvette was an active mooter; a finalist in the Mallal Moot Court competition in 2005, a Singapore representative to the Asia Cup International Mooting competition in Tokyo in 2006, and a representative and quarter finalist at the Phillip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition in 2008.

Ramesh’s areas of practice include international arbitration, corporate and commercial litigation (such as property related claims, claims in contract, shareholders’ disputes and claims involving breaches of directors’ duties), professional negligence and employment disputes.

He has particular expertise and interest in claims in defamation and administrative law. Ramesh is a member of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators and has co-authored the Singapore Chapter of the publication “Arbitration in Asia” by Juris Publishing. He is also accredited as an Associate Mediator of the Singapore Mediation Centre.

The Asia Pacific Legal 500 2010/2011 edition describes Ramesh as an “excellent attorney” in the area of international arbitration and one who provides “cogent, timely answers”.

Ramesh graduated from the National University of Singapore (NUS) with an LLB (Hons) degree in 2004. He was a member of the NUS team that emerged runners-up in the prestigious Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in 2004. He joined Allen & Gledhill LLP in 2005.

He recently attended the inaugural Singapore International Arbitration Academy 2012 jointly established by the Centre for International Law and the NUS Faculty of Law, where he obtained an Excellence in Advocacy Award after his completion of an intensive three-week arbitration training programme.

Kabir Singh is a Counsel in Clifford’s Chance’s International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution team in Singapore. Before joining Clifford Chance, Kabir practiced litigation and international arbitration in the Singapore law firm of Drew & Napier. Over the last 10 years, Kabir has acted for clients in a wide variety of high value litigation and arbitration matters involving various jurisdictions, including Singapore, UK, US, India, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Dubai, Mauritius and the BVI. His experience in arbitration includes representing high net worth individuals, corporates and banks in international arbitrations conducted under the rules of major international arbitral institutions like the ICC, SIAC, HKIAC and LCIA as well as under the UNCITRAL Rules. Kabir regularly sits as an arbitrator in both domestic and international arbitrations. He is also a regular speaker at arbitration conferences and events both in Singapore and overseas.

Sudhar joined the firm in 1997 as an associate. He became a partner in 2004. His main practice areas include Corporate & Insurance Litigation, International & Domestic Arbitration, Competition Law and Tax Litigation. He is currently the Deputy Head of the Tax Department.

Sudhar has been involved in the conduct of a number of leading local cases in the areas of arbitration, insurance, local/public authorities and tax law. He has also been involved in the conduct of a number of domestic and international arbitrations.

Sudhar recently participated in the inaugural Singapore International Arbitration Academy 2012, presented by the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore where he was a recipient of the Award for Excellence in Advocacy.