Yin Soon Yap

International Arbitration; International Trade; Litigation; Maritime & Aviation

Yin Soon is Co-Head of the Maritime & Aviation Practice and Co-Head of the Shipping (Contentious) Team.

His expertise is in disputes in the maritime, offshore, aviation and international trade and trade finance sectors. He is often called upon by clients to handle high value, complex and cross-border cases relating to collisions, casualties, salvage and oil pollution, charterparties, bills of lading, bunker trades, mortgages, lease agreements, sale and purchase agreements, construction, conversion and repair projects, oil and gas projects, ownership and possessory rights over ships, aircraft and cargo and loss, damage and detention to the same, international trade and trade finance and restructuring and insolvency.

Yin Soon regularly acts as lead counsel in many maritime and trade related disputes in the courts and in arbitrations (including LMAA, SIAC, SCMA, ICC and ad hoc). His clients include the Regulator, port operators, lenders and financiers in the shipping and commodities sectors, shipowners, P&I Clubs and other marine insurers, underwriters (liability claims) and shipyards.

Yin Soon joined Allen & Gledhill in 1994 and was made a Partner in 2000.

Yin Soon is on the Maritime Panel of Associate Mediators, Singapore Mediation Centre.