Yin Soon Yap

Practice Areas

International Arbitration; Litigation; Maritime & Aviation

Career

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

Yin Soon has extensive experience handling disputes relating to ownership and possessory rights over ships, aircraft and cargo and disputes in relation to the same for loss, damage and detention. He is currently very active in mortgagee enforcement actions (vessel arrest, repossession and sale - private and judicial), international trade and letter of credit disputes, fraud claims in the shipping, commodities and offshore and oil and gas sectors, restructuring and insolvency work involving shipowners, commodity traders and oil and gas companies and as lead counsel in many maritime arbitrations (LMAA, SIAC, SCMA, ICC and ad hoc).

Other notable matters Yin Soon has been involved in recently include marine insurance claims (CTL), ship collisions and fire incidents, charter party disputes, ship repair disputes and ship sale and purchase disputes. His clients include lenders and financiers in the shipping and commodities sectors, shipowners, P&I Clubs, H&M insurers, underwriters (liability claims) and shipyards.

Professional Memberships

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