SIAA 2014 Profiles

2014 SIAA Profiles

Speakers

ShahlaAli

Dr. Shahla Ali
Associate Professor & Deputy Head, Department of Law
Deputy Director, Program in Arbitration and Dispute Resolution, University of Hong Kong

Dr. Shahla Ali specializes in the resolution of cross-border commercial disputes in the Asia Pacific region. She has over 10 years of experience in commercial arbitration, mediation, negotiation, contract law, and IP dispute resolution. She currently works as an Assistant Professor of Law and Deputy Director of the LLM in Arbitration and Dispute Resolution in the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong. She has studied and practiced in China, Hong Kong SAR, Israel, the US and Switzerland and speaks English, Chinese and Farsi. Shahla is the author of Consumer Financial Dispute Resolution in a Comparative Context (Cambridge University Press); International Commercial Arbitration in Asia (Juris) and Resolving Disputes in the Asia Pacific (Routledge) and writes frequently for law journals in the area of comparative dispute system design drawing extensively on empirical and comparative methods.

Shahla is a an arbitrator with CIETAC, FINRA, HKIAC (ADNDRC), SCIA, a conciliator with WTC Macau and a mediator with the HKMC, HKMAAL and the HK Building and Lands Tribunal. She is qualified to practice law in California.

Prior to moving to Hong Kong, Shahla was an attorney with Baker & McKenzie, LLP where she focused on international trade, corporate transactions and regulatory compliance. She received her JD and PhD from UC Berkeley in Jurisprudence and Social Policy, her MA in Conflict Resolution from Landegg University and BA in International Relations and Chinese Language from Stanford University. She has conducted mediation and collaborative negotiation trainings in both the private and public sector for managers as well as UN staff.

LawrenceBoo

Professor Lawrence Boo
Professor, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore

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).

ChesterBrown

Professor Chester Brown
Professor of International Law and International Arbitration, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney

Professor Chester Brown is Professor of International Law and International Arbitration at the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, Australia; a Barrister at 7 Selborne Chambers Sydney, and a door tenant at Essex Court Chambers, London, and Maxwell Chambers, Singapore. He practices, teaches and researches in the fields of public international law, international arbitration, international investment law, and private international law. He previously served as Assistant Legal Adviser at the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (2007–2009), and prior to this, he was a Senior Associate in the International Law and International Arbitration Group of Clifford Chance LLP, London (2004–2007).

He is currently advising a number of investors and States on claims under bilateral investment treaties (‘BITs’), including acting as counsel for the Government of Australia in the claim brought by Philip Morris Asia Ltd under the Australia – Hong Kong BIT. He is also acting as counsel for the Government of Australia in proceedings commenced by Timor-Leste before the International Court of Justice and before an ad hoc arbitral tribunal. He recently served as counsel for the Government of Iran in proceedings before the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal (Case A/15 (II:A)), as well as for the Government of India in the claim brought by White Industries Australia Ltd under the Australia – India BIT.

Professor Brown is the author of A Common Law of International Adjudication (Oxford University Press, 2007), a major study dealing with the applicable procedure and remedies before international courts and tribunals, which was awarded the American Society of International Law’s Certificate of Merit . He is the co-editor of Evolution in Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration (Cambridge University Press, 2011), which was awarded the OGEMID Award for ‘Book of the Year 2011’; co-author of The International Arbitration Act 1974: A Commentary (Lexis-Nexis Australia, 2011), and editor of Commentaries on Selected Model Investment Treaties (Oxford University Press, 2013). He also serves as Associate Editor (Notes) of the ICSID Review – Foreign Investment Law Journal, and is the Australia and New Zealand reporter for the International Law Reports. He was educated at the Universities of Melbourne, Oxford, and Cambridge, and he speaks German and French.

CindyBuxton

Ms. Cindy Buxton
Z-Axis

Cindy Buxton, born and brought up in the UK, although has spent most of her working life abroad. She is now in London, operating from the London office for Z-Axis. Cindy joined Z-Axis in early 1997 after a successful career in the British television industry, where for twenty-five years she directed and filmed documentaries for the famous Survival series of Anglia Television. The films are distributed to more than 110 countries. She has won three major awards for her work, published two books, a scientific paper and written numerous articles in various natural history magazines.

One of her many talents is in thoroughly researching and working closely with lawyers, barristers and experts so that she fully understands a project or case that she is involved with which enables her to assist the producer with the necessary visual presentations. With eight years as a producer under her belt, her role as Z-Axis’s UK consultant, has proved to be very beneficial to her clients.

MarkFeldman

Professor Mark Feldman
Associate Professor of Law, Peking University School of Transnational Law

Mark Feldman is Associate 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.

Meg Kinnear

Ms. Meg Kinnear
Secretary-General, International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)

Meg Kinnear is currently the Secretary-General of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) at the World Bank. She was formerly the Senior General Counsel and Director General of the Trade Law Bureau of Canada, where she was responsible for the conduct of all international investment and trade litigation involving Canada, and participated in the negotiation of bilateral investment agreements. In November 2002, Ms. Kinnear was also named Chair of the Negotiating Group on Dispute Settlement for the Free Trade of the Americas Agreement.

From October 1996 to April 1999, Ms. Kinnear was Executive Assistant to the Deputy Minister of Justice of Canada. Prior to this, Ms. Kinnear was Counsel at the Civil Litigation Section of the Canadian Department of Justice (from June 1984 to October 1996) where she appeared before federal and provincial courts as well as domestic arbitration panels.

Ms. Kinnear was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1984 and the Bar of the District of Columbia in 1982. She received a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) from Queen’s University in 1978; a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from McGill University in 1981; and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the University of Virginia in 1982.

Ms. Kinnear has published numerous articles on international investment law and procedure and is a frequent speaker on these topics. She is a co-author of Investment Disputes under NAFTA (published in 2006 and updated in 2008 & 2009). She also co-authored texts on Canadian legal procedure including Federal Court Practice (1988-1990, 1991-1992, and 1993-2009 annually) and 1995 Crown Liability and Proceedings Act Annotated (1994).

EdmundKronenburg

Mr. Edmund Kronenburg
Managing Partner, Braddell Brothers LLP

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).

ChristopherLau

Mr. Christopher Lau SC
Chartered Arbitrator, Singapore

With over 35 years of experience, Christopher has an in-depth understanding and knowledge of Asian legal culture and market dynamics. He has served as arbitrator in mostly international cases under, amongst others, ICC, HKIAC, KLRCA, LCIA, SCMA, SIAC and UNCITRAL arbitration rules. His arbitration practice encompasses BIT, investment and all aspects of commercial disputes including maritime, construction, energy, corporate and insurance disputes involving the laws of various jurisdictions including those of Singapore, India, Hong Kong, PRC, England and New York.

Chambers & Partners refers to him as being a “very solid arbitrator” with a “great reputation” bringing “his experienced and charming” approach to high-profile cases in Singapore and across Asia as well as having US and European experience.

Christopher is a panel arbitrator with many arbitral institutions including SIAC, SCMA, HKIAC, KLRCA, KCAB, BAC and AAA/ICDR. He is an Alternate Member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration and a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration, Task Force on IBA Guidelines on Party Representation in International Arbitration, Working Group IBA Rules on Investor-State Mediation and Board of Advisors New York International Arbitration Center.

He is an independent, non-executive director of the Board of Directors of Wing Tai Holdings Ltd, serving as Chairman of its Audit Committee and member of its Nominating Committee and an independent, non-executive director of the Board of Directors of Singapore Technologies Marine Ltd serving as Chairman of its Risk and Audit Committee.

VaughanLowe

Mr. Vaughan Lowe QC
Essex Court Chambers

Vaughan Lowe QC is emeritus professor of International Law and emeritus fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford. He previously taught at the universities of Cambridge, Manchester and Cardiff. He practices as a barrister from Essex Court Chambers, London, appearing before domestic and international courts and tribunals, and also sits as an arbitrator.

AlisonMacdonald

Ms. Alison Macdonald
Matrix Chambers

Alison is a barrister at Matrix Chambers, London, specialising in public international law and international arbitration.

She has extensive international arbitration experience, including both advocacy and advisory work: she is instructed as counsel in a number of ongoing ICSID arbitrations and annulment proceedings, and has advised governments, companies and individuals on arbitration, environmental and trade law matters. She has also acted as counsel in a number of significant inter-State disputes, including ongoing proceedings between Mauritius and the United Kingdom. She has a particular interest in the intersection between international arbitration and public international law, and is a contributor to the latest edition of The Law of State Immunity (Hazel Fox QC and Philippa Webb, Oxford, 2013)

Alison also appears regularly in the English courts, including in cases with a criminal dimension. She is experienced in issues of fraud, corruption, and their domestic and international law consequences. She represented Argentina in the corruption-related annulment proceedings in Siemens v Argentina.

Alison is described in the current UK editions of the Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 directories as “simply brilliant”, “formidable and very clever, but also extremely relaxed and modest about it”, and “knows her way around things and has a very practical, commercial brain.” She has been named as one of the ‘future stars of the Bar’ by The Times, and alongside her work at the Bar, was a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford from 1999-2006.

LorettaMalintoppi

Ms. Loretta Malintoppi
Of Counsel, Eversheds LLP

Loretta Malintoppi is Of Counsel in the Singapore Office of Eversheds LLP. She has a law degree from Rome University and holds an LLM in Common Law Studies from Georgetown University Law Centre.

Ms Malintoppi is dually-qualified (Paris and Rome Bars) and specializes in international arbitration, both commercial and investment arbitration, public international law. She has acted as counsel, advocate and arbitrator in a number of arbitrations regarding disputes arising out of international commercial contracts and has represented private companies, States and State entities in UNCITRAL, ICC and ICSDID proceedings.

Ms Malintoppi has appeared as counsel and advocate before the International Court of Justice and has also represented states in ad hoc public international law arbitrations. She was a Member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration from 2000 to 2009 and is currently a Vice-President of the Court.

Ms Malintoppi has written articles on investment arbitration and State-to-State litigation and is the co-author of “The ICSID Convention – A commentary” published by Cambridge University Press in 2009. She is regarded by Chambers Global as a leading individual in international arbitration.

She is a regular speaker at conferences on international arbitration and public international law. She is also a member of the Commission on Arbitration of the ICC, the ILA, the IBA, the American Society of International Law, the French Society of International Law and the Italian Society of International Law.

JanPaulsson

Professor Jan Paulsson
Professor of Law, University of Miami

Jan Paulsson is Professor of Law at the University of Miami, and founding partner of Three Crowns LLP. He formerly served as the President of ICCA, the LCIA and the World Bank Administrative Tribunal. He is also a member of the Bars of Paris and the District of Columbia. He is the author of Denial Of Justice in International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and The Idea of Arbitration (Oxford University Press, 2013).

Professor Paulsson received his A.B. from Harvard in 1971, his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1975, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, and a Diplôme d’études supérieures spécialisées from the University of Paris in 1977.

MartinaPolasek

Ms. Martina Polasek
Team Leader/Legal Counsel, International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)

Martina Polasek is Team Leader/Legal Counsel at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID),in charge of one of ICSID’s three case management teams. Ms. Polasek joined ICSID in September 2001 and has served as secretary of tribunals in over 50 arbitrations under the ICSID Convention, the ICSID Additional Facility Rules and the UNCITRAL Rules. She has also served as committee secretary in numerous annulment proceedings. Prior to joining ICSID, she worked as an attorney with the law firms of Jeantet & Associés in Paris and White & Case LLP in Prague, focusing on international arbitration. Ms. Polasek holds degrees from George Washington University Law School (LL.M), University of Paris V Descartes (D.E.S.S.) and University of Gothenburg (Master of Laws).

LucyReed

Ms. Lucy Reed
Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP

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.

MarionSmith

Ms. Marion Smith
Barrister, 39 Essex Street chambers

Marion is a member of the bar of England and Wales, and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. She has wide experience in commercial and construction dispute resolution  involving litigation, arbitration, adjudication and mediation. Her practice includes the following specific areas: construction and engineering; fraud; insurance, shipbuilding; and professional disciplinary and negligence matters. She regularly conducts arbitration work as counsel subject to all the main international institutional rules.  She has given expert evidence on legal issues in several jurisdictions. As a trained advocacy teacher she has conducted training workshops in the UK, Europe and the Caribbean and frequently lectures and writes on topics related to substantive and procedural law.

J Christopher Thomas QC

Mr. J Christopher Thomas QC
Senior Principal Research Fellow, Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore

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).

StephenTromans

Mr. Stephen Tromans QC
Joint Head of Chambers, 39 Essex Street Chambers

Stephen is currently Joint Head of Chambers at 39 Essex Street in London, which also has chambers in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. He is a former University Lecturer at Cambridge. His practice focuses on environmental, energy and infrastructure law, dealing with matters such as major projects and related disputes. He is the author of a number of text books including Environmental Impact Assessment: law and practice and Nuclear Law.

He is an Advisory Committee Member of the Asia Pacific Centre for Environmental Law at NUS.

His practice includes international dispute resolution. He is a CEDR accredited Mediator and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

AlvinYeo

Mr. Alvin Yeo SC
Senior Partner, Wong Partnership LLP

Alvin YEO, Senior Counsel, is the Senior Partner of WongPartnership LLP. His main practice comprises corporate, commercial and infrastructure disputes, both in litigation and arbitration. Alvin has also acted as arbitrator in various disputes under ICC and SIAC Rules, involving projects in South-East and South Asia. 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 is recognised as a leading litigation and arbitration counsel in international legal directories such as The Legal 500; IFLR1000; Chambers Global; Chambers Asia Pacific; PLC Which Lawyer; Expert Guides; Who’s Who Legal; Best Lawyers; Benchmark Asia Pacific, Asialaw Leading Lawyers and Asialaw Profiles.

Facilitators

Elaine-Chew

Ms. Elaine Chew
Assistant Director (Policy Advisory Division), Ministry of Law, Singapore

Elaine graduated from the National University of Singapore with First Class Honours, after which she joined the Supreme Court of Singapore as a Justices’ Law Clerk. She was later appointed an Assistant Registrar, in which capacity she heard various interlocutory matters and assessment of damages matters spanning areas of law such as Banking Law, Construction Law and Property Law.

Last year, Elaine was reposted to the Ministry of Law after having completed the BCL programme at the University of Oxford with distinction. She is currently an Assistant Director of the Policy Advisory Division. Her portfolio consists mainly of land policy and arbitration related matters.

Elaine is part of NUS’s adjunct faculty, and teaches Principles of Property Law as well as Legal Analysis, Research and Communication. She is also NUS’s coach for the Wilem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot.

Elaine is qualified to practice in Singapore and the State of New York.

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Ms. Harpreet Kaur Dhillon
Practice Fellow, Centre for International Law

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.

CalvinLiang

Mr. Calvin Liang
Senior Associate, Tan Kok Quan Partnership

Calvin is a Senior Associate in the Firm’s Litigation and Arbitration Practice Group.

Calvin read law at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) where he graduated with First Class Honours in 2009. There, he received the Sweet & Maxwell Prize (best overall performance for the first-year examinations), Blackstone Chambers Prize (Best mark in Public Law), Dechert Prize (Best mark in Property Law) and best mark in Criminal Law.

He then pursued his Masters at the University of Oxford (Bachelor of Civil Law) where he graduated with Distinction in 2010.

Calvin gained admission as an Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore in 2012.

Calvin has experience in criminal and civil litigation, arbitration and regulatory matters, including matters relating to Public Law, Banking law, Commercial law, Defamation law and International Arbitration.

Calvin began his legal career as a Justices’ Law Clerk to the Chief Justice and Judges of the Singapore Supreme Court. He subsequently held a concurrent appointment as an Assistant Registrar of the Supreme Court.

He also served as an adjunct professor at the Singapore Management University teaching Constitutional and Administrative Law.

Thereafter, he joined a large Singapore litigation practice where he practised as a litigation and arbitration lawyer.

Kabir Singh

Mr. Kabir Singh
Counsel, Clifford Chance

Kabir Singh is a Counsel in the International Arbitration & Dispute Resolution Team of Clifford Chance. Kabir specialises in international arbitration and regularly acts as counsel and arbitrator in a variety of international arbitrations under the rules of major arbitral institutions like the SIAC, ICC, LCIA and HKIAC as well as in ad hoc arbitrations. Kabir speaks regularly at arbitration conferences in Asia, and in particular India. He attended the Singapore International Arbitration Academy (SIAA) 2012, and received the Excellence in Advocacy Award. He was also a facilitator in the SIAA 2013.

Felicia Tan

Ms. Felicia Tan
Senior Associate, Allen & Gledhill LLP

Felicia’s areas of practice encompass corporate, construction, defamation, public law, infrastructure, shareholder-related and property-related arbitration and litigation. She also advises on non-contentious matters in the same areas. Her key clients include statutory boards, academic institutions, banks and major companies.

Felicia has been involved in several major international arbitrations. Some of her significant cases include acting for a major power generation company in an arbitration arising from a gas supply agreement with a foreign company, acting for a public transport authority in an arbitration arising from a design and build construction contract, and acting for a large Chinese commodities company in an arbitration with another foreign company arising from a sale and purchase agreement.

Felicia has also represented various statutory boards, academic institutions and shareholders in various disputes at the Courts in Singapore, including at the level of the Court of Appeal. She has recently acted as the lead counsel in a trial arising from a defamation dispute brought against an academic institution by its previous employee, and successfully defended the institution.

Felicia graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science with an LLB (Hons) degree in 2005. She represented the National University of Singapore at the 2006 Oxford Intellectual Property Moot and was one of the two-member inaugural champion team.