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Provided by Kelly Yap
Shipping, International Trade, Commercial Litigation & Dispute Resoluation, International Arbitration; Marine Insurance and Reinsurance; Enforcement & Asset Recovery; Oil and Gas, China Practice
Kelly Yap is the Managing Director of Ming Law Asia LLC. He advises on a full range of commercial disputes, with a particular focus on international trade and shipping matters. His work includes charterparty and bill of lading disputes, cargo and contamination claims, bunker disputes, crew claims, demurrage and off-hire issues, and disputes arising from ship repair, construction, management and agency arrangements.
Kelly also handles wet shipping matters involving collisions, groundings, fires, salvage, loss of life and other marine casualties. He regularly advises on marine insurance issues and acts for commodity traders in disputes concerning quality, shortage and cargo damage.
He has extensive experience with vessel arrests, acting for both arresting parties and shipowners, and with applications for urgent relief, injunctions and asset preservation measures. Kelly also represents companies, shareholders and creditors in commercial disputes involving fraud, breaches of directors’ duties, governance issues and shareholders' disputes.
His practice includes litigation before the Singapore courts and international arbitration under various institutional and ad hoc rules. In addition to commercial and shipping matters, Kelly advises family-owned businesses and private clients on disputes relating to trusts, succession and asset-holding structures.
Member of the Singapore Academy of Law
Member of the Law Society of Singapore
Senior Accredited Specialist in Maritime & Shipping Law, Singapore Academy of Law
Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators
Singapore International Mediation Institute Accredited Mediator
Singapore Mediation Centre Associate Mediator
Board member and member of the editorial committee of Shiparrested.com
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Chinese
Editor of the chapter on the High Court (Admiralty Jurisdiction) Act in Singapore Civil Procedure
National University of Singapore
LLB (Hons)
1995 - 1999
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Kelly Yap of Ming Law Asia has extensive experience in shipping disputes in Singapore, regularly assisting clients with cargo claims and vessel arrests, as well as marine insurance matters.
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He is an expert in his field. I trust that he will provide the best services he can to the client.
He is an expert in his field. I trust that he will provide the best services he can to the client.
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