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Provided by Swee Yen Koh SC
Koh Swee Yen, Senior Counsel, is the Head of the International Arbitration Practice and a Partner in the Commercial & Corporate Disputes and Commodities & International Trade Practices.
Her practice has a particular focus on complex, high-value and multi-jurisdictional disputes involving asset recovery, commodities, energy, fraud, infrastructure, international trade, joint ventures, transport and technology. She regularly appears before the Singapore Courts (including the Singapore International Commercial Court) and in international commercial and investment arbitrations under the major institutional rules, including ICSID, ICC, ICDR, LCIA, SIAC, and UNCITRAL. She is admitted to the Roll of Solicitors of England & Wales and also has rights of audience before the DIFC Courts.
Swee Yen is the Co-Chair of the IPBA Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Committee, and an officer of the IBA Asia Pacific Regional Forum. She has been appointed as a member of the ICC Court, and was a former Vice-Chair of the IBA Arbitration Committee. She is also a Board member of the Swiss Arbitration Association, and a member of the LCIA Asia Pacific Users’ Council. She has sat as an arbitrator in HKIAC, ICC, LCIA, SCC and SIAC administered arbitrations, and is on the Panel of Arbitrators of AIAC, BICAM, BAC/BIAC, DIAC, HKIAC, IIAC, KCAB and SIAC. She has been designated by Singapore to the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators, being one of only four designees.
Swee Yen has various publications, in particular on civil procedure, enforcement of judgments and awards, international commercial and investment arbitration and litigation. Her publications include:
- The Rules of Court 2021: Perspectives from the Bar (2024) 36 SAcLJ 503
- Chambers’ Litigation 2025 Global Practice Guide – Singapore Chapter (Trends and Developments)
- Preventing further bites of the cherry in challenging arbitral awards (SAL Practitioner) (2024)
- Practical Insights on Fraud and Corruption in International Arbitration, 2024 (Wolters Kluwer)
- Lexology In-Depth: The Investment Treaty Arbitration Review: Objection of Manifest Lack of Legal Merit of Claims under the ICSID Arbitration Rules Chapter: (9th Edition) (2024)
- International Comparative Legal Guide – Investor-State Arbitration 2024 (Singapore Chapter)
- The Proposed Reforms to the English Arbitration Act 1996: A Singapore Perspective’ Singapore Arbitration Journal (2023)
- The Legal 500 Country Comparative Guide Singapore: Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters (2023)
- The Legal 500 Country Comparative Guide Singapore: International Arbitration (2023)
- Global Arbitration Review (GAR) The Guide to Investment Treaty Protection and Enforcement; 2nd edition - Accessing Investment Treaty Protection: The Investor's Perspective (2023)
- Provisional and Emergency Measures in International Arbitration (Edward Elgar Publishing) (2023)
- Singapore Rules of Court: A Practice Guide, 2023 Ed (Singapore Academy of Law Publishing)
- ICSID Rules and Regulations 2022: Article by Article Commentary (CH Beck)
- Arbitration and Corruption: Duty or Right of Arbitrators to Report Suspicion of Corruption to Authorities, 2021 (Wolters Kluwer)
- Getting the Deal Through: Investment Treaty Arbitration 2021 – Singapore Chapter (Lexology)
- The Future of Investment Treaty Arbitration in the EU: Intra-EU BITs, the Energy Charter Treaty, and the Multilateral Investment - Arbitration, Public Policy and Enforcement after Achmea: A perspective from Singapore, Chapter 11, 2020 (Wolters Kluwer)
- International Arbitration: In the Age of Technological Revolution, 2020 (Volume 1) (Lumen Juris)
- International Arbitration Comparative Guide 2020 – Singapore Chapter (Mondaq)
- Lye Lin Heng's Landlord and Tenant Law in Singapore, 2020 (2nd Edition) (LexisNexis)
- The Legal 500 & The In-House Lawyer Hot Topic – Singapore: International Arbitration (4th Edition)
- International Arbitration in the Energy Sector 2018: Energy Investor State Disputes in Asia (Oxford University Press)
- European International Arbitration Review, 2017: The Incidence of Iura Novit Arbiter in Singapore Arbitration Law - Volume 6:1 (JurisNet, LLC)
- The Use of Emergency Arbitrators in Investment Treaty Arbitration: ICSID Review - Foreign Investment Law Journal, 2016 (Oxford University Press)
- Singapore Civil Procedure: Volume I, Chapter 29: Interlocutory Injunctions, Interim Preservation of Property, Interim Payments; Volume II: Arbitration Act and International Arbitration Act (Sweet & Maxwell)
- Atkin's Court Forms (Singapore): Defamation (LexisNexis)
- The Practice of Law, 2016 (LexisNexis)
Provided by Chambers
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She is one of the most formidable litigators in Singapore.
She understands the local market well.
She is one of the most formidable litigators in Singapore.
She understands the local market well.