Moses Lin

International Arbitration | International Trade | Litigation & Dispute Resolution | Restructuring & Insolvency | Shipping & Commodities

Moses Lin is Head of Shipping and Commodities at the firm. He specialises in commercial dispute resolution as well as restructuring and insolvency, with particular experience in the shipping and commodities/trade sectors. He advises clients on risk mitigation, commercial litigation and arbitration, and has acted as counsel in the State Courts, the High Court and the Court of Appeal in Singapore. He also regularly appears as lead counsel in international arbitrations conducted under the auspices of the SIAC, SCMA, GAFTA, FOSFA, ICC, and LMAA, among others. His experience extends to contractual and tortious disputes, corporate insolvency, bankruptcy, directors’ duties, shareholder disputes, defamation, employment disputes, as well as foreign and domestic judgment/award enforcement actions.

Whilst his expertise covers a wide spectrum of industry sectors, Moses leads the firm’s shipping and commodities practice. He regularly advises on disputes involving shipbuilding, ship sale and purchase, ship management, charterparties and cargo loss and damage, as well as demurrage or despatch and cargo off-specification claims. In addition, Moses has also been involved in major restructuring and insolvency matters, several of them involving large-scale fraudulent activity. On the transactional front, he advises on ship sale and purchase agreements as well as shipbuilding contracts.

Moses graduated from the University College London with an LL.B. (Hons) degree in 2006 and was called to the Singapore Bar in 2008.

• Independent Director, Healthway Medical Corporation Ltd (2016 – 2020)

• Accredited Mediator, Singapore Mediation Centre (SMC)

• Adjudicator, SMC Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Scheme

• Member, Panel of Mediators, Law Society Mediation Scheme

• Member, Maritime Law Association of Singapore