Miss Koh Swee Yen, Senior Counsel, is the Head of the International Arbitration Practice of WongPartnership.
She 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.
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. She also sits as an arbitrator, and has been designated by Singapore to the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators, being one of only four designees.
Swee Yen is regarded as a global leader in litigation and international arbitration, the go-to lawyer for cross-border asset recovery, fraud and commercial disputes, enforcement and setting aside proceedings, and has been involved in numerous landmark and ground-breaking decisions in these fields. She is ranked as one of the best advocates in dispute resolution by various legal publications, including The Legal 500, Chambers Asia-Pacific, Chambers Global, Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific and Lexology Index.