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Stephen L. Marsh
Stephen Marsh is Chair of the Environmental practice group. Mr. Marsh specializes in hazardous waste and
toxic tort litigation, including underground storage tanks, CERCLA, RCRA and cost recovery matters;
Proposition 65; Consumer product safety laws; Insurance coverage counseling and litigation related to
environmental claims; Coordination of site assessments and remediation with consultants and regulatory
agencies; Stormwater compliance; Brownfields redevelopment; Climate Change issues; and, advising
businesses and property owners on these and related issues in connection with corporate and real estate
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Juan Carlos Marquez
Juan Carlos Marquez is a Member of Stites & Harbison based in Alexandria, Virginia, where he is a member of the Intellectual Property & Technology Service Group. He has 20 years of experience in patent prosecution, intellectual property licensing and enforcement, and technology transfer. Mr. Marquez has an extensive patent law practice in preparing and prosecuting patent applications world-wide in a wide variety of technological arts, in drafting patentability, validity, infringement and right-to-use opinions, and in supporting IP litigation matters. He has prosecuted over 2,000 patent applications and drafted patent applications in a wide variety of technological arts. He regularly counsels clients on validity, infringement and licensing issues.
Juan Carlos Marquez's Full Profile...
Mr. Marquez is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He earned his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from General Motors Institute.
Mr. Marquez is the U.S. vice-chair of the Intellectual Property Committee of the IPBA. He is also a member of the American Bar Association, the American Intellectual Property Law Association and the Licensing Executive Society. |
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Shanti Mogan
Shanti Mogan graduated with an LL.B (Hons) degree from the University of Bristol, England in 1988. She qualified as a Barrister at Law (Gray’s Inn), London in 1989. She was admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in September 1990. She obtained her Masters in Law with Honours from University of Malaya in 1996. She was admitted as a Partner of Shearn Delamore & Co on 1st January 2001.
Her area of practice is Dispute Resolution. The types of work undertaken include the following: arbitration; commercial and corporate litigation; enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards; communications and multimedia; entertainment; banking and insolvency.
Shanti Mogan's Full Profile...
She has acted in a wide range of disputes both in the High Court and in arbitration. She has appeared in disputes involving complex commercial transactions, technology related disputes and corporate disputes. She has been involved in a number of international commercial arbitrations held under the KLRCA and UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, the SIAC Rules and the Rules of Arbitration of the ICC. She has also been involved in a number of cases reported in the Malaysian law reports.
She handles advisory work for clients in relation to, inter alia, regulatory and legal matters involving communications and multimedia, consumer protection and privacy laws.
She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a Member of the London Court of International Arbitration. She is a member of the ADR Committee of the Bar Council and the Technology & Communications Committee of the Inter Pacific Bar Association. She is also a member of the International Bar Association.
She is also the Firm representative of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Malaysia Arbitration Committee and a member of the Legal Affairs Committee of the Malaysian International Chamber of Commerce and Industry. |
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Takamiki Nishikawa
Takamiki Nishikawa is a Senior Associate at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune and engages in the fields of financial, corporate and commercial law, with emphasis on cross border transactions. He was recently seconded to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, where he was involved in international negotiations relating to a proposed new plurilateral treaty on IP enforcement and to non-tariff barriers in connection with non-agricultural products at the Doha Round. He is well versed in international trade issues, having been involved in, inter alia, disputes relating to Indian tariffs on Japanese electronic consumer goods and Japanese tariffs on DRAMs. |
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Philip Trevor Nunn
Philip Trevor Nunn has 35 years' post-admission experience in dispute resolution matters. He has extensive experience of major litigation and arbitration, including significant experience as an arbitrator. He joined Huen Wong & Co in association with Fried Frank as a partner in April 2007.
Philip Trevor Nunn's Full Profile...
Prior to that,
he was a partner at Simmons & Simmons for over 20 years and before that Head of the Lands &
Works Unit in the Attorney General's Chambers, responsible for all legal advice to the
Government departments implementing development and construction projects. Philip is a Justice
of the Peace, a member of the HKIAC Panel of Arbitrators, a member of the CIETAC Panel of
Arbitrators and a member of the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board Panel of Arbitrators. He
is a former member of the Housing Authority and was Chairman of the Building Committee of the
Housing Authority for 4 years.
| PERSONAL DETAILS |
| Date of Birth: |
3 November 1949 |
| Nationality: |
British |
| Education: |
Woodhouse Grove School, West Yorkshire (1961 to 1968)
Nottingham University (1968 to 1971) |
QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor of Laws (LL.B)
Chartered Arbitrator
Fellow of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb)
Fellow of Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators (FHKIArb)
Admitted as a solicitor in 1974 in England and Wales
Admitted as a solicitor in 1981 in Hong Kong
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PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS
Bronze Bauhinia Star
Justice of the Peace
Member, HKIAC Panel of Arbitrators
Member, CIETAC Panel of Arbitrators
Member, Korean Commercial Arbitration Board Panel of Arbitrators
Member, LCIA Panel of Arbitrators
Former Member – Hong Kong Housing Authority
Former Chairman – Building Committee of Hong Kong Housing Authority
Former Member – Property Committee, Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation
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1974 to 1978 solicitor, Kirklees Metropolitan Council, Huddersfield, attached to the Planning,
Development and Construction unit of the Legal Department. |
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1978 to 1985 Deputy Principal Crown Counsel, Attorney General's Chambers, Hong Kong
Government, Head of the Lands and Works Unit. |
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1986 to 2007 partner, Simmons & Simmons. |
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2007 to present partner, Huen Wong & Co in association with Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver &
Jacobson LLP |
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Kevin Y. Qian
Kevin Y. Qian is a founding partner of MWE China Law Offices based in Shanghai. Kevin focuses his practice on corporate and commercial law, international syndicate loans, equipment leasing, project financing, establishment and financing for high-tech companies, information technology licensing and international arbitration. He also has significant experience in venture capital and private equity transactions, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and other commercial business transactions.
Kevin Y. Qian Full Profile...
In addition to 23 years of legal practice, Kevin’s experience has included roles as:
- A faculty member of the East China University of Political Science and Law and a lawyer at a prominent Shanghai-based law firm, where he focused his practice on financial, commercial and intellectual property law.
- A partner of the largest law firm in Shanghai from 2001 to 2006 and served as a key director of its Executive Committee.
- The senior legal counsel of Philips Electronics in Asia, where he was responsible for legal matters concerning Philip’s 30 wholly owned and joint venture enterprises throughout the region.
- The Deputy General Manager and Legal Counsel for PepsiCo Investment China Co., Ltd., where he managed more than 40 wholly owned and joint venture enterprises in the beverage, restaurant, and snack food industries.
- A head of the Asia Pacific and China Practice Group in the law firm of Popham Haik.
- A member of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Committee of All China Lawyers Association in 2002
- The Vice President of the Foreign Affairs & WTO Committee of the All China Lawyers Association since 2007
- Recognised as one of Asia’s Leading Business Lawyers by Asian Legal Business (ALB) for his outstanding practice in corporate, more specially capital markets, corporate finance, and M&A from 2002 to 2008
- The first Chinese lawyer to be elected as Chairman of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA) International Trade Committee in 2004
- One of the Hot 30 Lawyers as well as one of the Asia Pacific’s Hot 100 in China by Asian Legal Business (ALB) magazine in 2004 and 2005
- One of the World’s Leading Practitioners by the International Who’s Who of Corporate Governance Lawyers 2006
- The Director of IPBA Project Coordination Committee since 2009
Kevin is a member of the American Bar Association, the Minnesota State Bar Association and All China Lawyers Association. |
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Angus Rodger
Angus Rodger is a partner in the London office of Steptoe & Johnson and represents and counsels insurers, reinsurers, brokers and financial institutions in insurance and finance disputes and non-contentious matters.
He is identified as a leading individual by the Chambers UK and UK Legal 500, which state that clients are “consistently extremely impressed” and that he is “regarded as ‘top notch’ by clients and peers alike” and “respected for both contentious and non-contentious insurance”. He is also ranked as a leading lawyer in UK Chambers directory for Insurance Claims and is listed in Euromoney’s Expert Guide to the World’s Best Insurance and Reinsurance Lawyers.
Angus Rodger's Full Profile...
He exercises advocacy rights in front of the English higher courts and appears in national and international arbitrations. Reported litigation in which he has acted includes Winterthur v Merrill Lynch [2007] 2 All ER Comm 846, Dow v Novoklav [1998] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 306, Sword-Daniels v Pitel [1994] 4 All ER 385, and Napier v Kershaw [1993] AC 713.
He has drafted and negotiated all types of insurance policy wordings, has acted in several significant ART transactions (such as BAE Systems’ US$3.77 billion FRIP), and advises on a range of financial and regulatory issues.
Angus is the author and contributing author respectively of two leading texts on insurance and reinsurance law, EC Insurance Law (Longman) and Reinsurance Claims Handling (Witherby), as well as Informa’s insurance and reinsurance law courses. He has lectured on private international law at King’s College, London, and is a frequent contributor to industry journals and conferences.
Noteworthy
- Leading Individual : Insurance - Chambers UK (2010 edition)
- UK Legal Experts: Insurance (2009 edition)
- Euromoney Expert Guide (2007)
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Roger S. Saxton
Educated mostly in the United States, Roger was first admitted to practice in Sweden and later worked in Japan as a foreign law consultant before admission to practice in the United States and Australia. Best known for advising mining, natural resources and energy companies, he also advises consumer products, electronics, software, food distribution and retail, and food service retail companies.
Roger S. Saxton's Full Profile...
Roger has served as in-house counsel for major international companies in the mining, consumer
products, food distribution and food service industries. He often advises Australian, internationally
based companies and governments on the legal aspects of foreign investments and regarding the
exploration, development and operation of mining projects both in Australia and globally. He is
presently engaged with a major law book publisher to produce a comprehensive reference on
foreign investment regulations; the completed work will likely be published by mid-2011.
In addition to private practice Roger is Legal Counsel to the Canadian-Australian Chamber of
Commerce Limited and a founding member of that Chamber. Roger has strong links to the
Japanese business community in Australia and previously served as a director of the Australia-
Japan Society of NSW. He served two terms as Chairman of the IPBA’s Cross-Border
Investment Committee.
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Cliff Sosnow
Clifford Sosnow is a Partner practising in the International Trade & Investment Group. He is recognized in The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory as a leading practitioner in international trade regulation, in The Best Lawyers in Canada as a leading practitioner in international arbitration, in Legal Media Group's Guide to the World's Leading International Trade Lawyers, and is recommended in Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business as a leading practitioner in WTO (World Trade Organization)/international trade.
Cliff Sosnow's Full Profile...
Cliff advises leading corporations, governments and industry
associations on global trade and investment issues, including compliance with international agreements
(North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), bilateral investment treaties, free trade agreements to
which Canada is a party, and the WTO), foreign corrupt practices, sanctions, antidumping and
countervailing duty and unfair subsidy claims, export/import licences, procurement disputes and customs.
He litigates before NAFTA and WTO panels, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal and the Federal
Court of Appeal, including on behalf of the United States Trade Representative and the U.S. Department
of Justice in successfully defending a Canadian International Trade Tribunal decision against a challenge.
He also regularly lobbies the Canadian government on behalf of global companies on free trade and
bilateral investment treaty negotiations.
Cliff has served as senior counsel with the trade law division of the Canadian Department of International
Trade, where he litigated on behalf of and provided opinion advice to the government on a wide range of
complex international trade and investment issues. He represented Canada on several GATT (General
Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) and WTO disputes, including Canada's first dispute before the WTO
Appellate Body. Subsequent to his departure from the government, Cliff became the first Canadian
private-sector lawyer to represent the Government of Canada in WTO litigation. He has also advised
Canadian officials on the negotiation of the WTO Agreement on Basic Telecommunication Services, the
WTO Financial Services Agreement, the Canada-Chile Free Trade Agreement and various provisions of
the NAFTA, including the NAFTA chapter on dispute settlement.
Cliff also held the position of in-house counsel to the Canadian International Trade Tribunal. He advised
on numerous trade law issues and litigated on behalf of the Tribunal before free trade agreement panels.
In light of Cliff's deep trade law expertise, the Asian Development Bank selected him as the only Canadian
lawyer to join a team of international legal experts to work with senior Chinese government trade officials
to review and revise China's trade remedy laws to ensure compliance with WTO agreements.
Cliff has been asked to provide sophisticated and complex international trade and investment advice to
some of Canada's most high-profile, regulated industries. He has advised a leading global commodities
producer on the consistency of Egyptian regulation with the expropriation provisions of the Canada-Egypt
Bilateral Investment Treaty. He also advised a mining company on the protections available under a
bilateral investment treaty between Holland and Bolivia in light of a recent announcement by the Bolivian
government of its intention to withdraw from the International Centre for Settlement of Investment. He has
counselled a North American refinery association, one of the world's largest retailers, a Fortune 500
pharmaceutical company, a "Big Three" automobile manufacturer and a United States utility company on
whether various NAFTA government regulations comply with NAFTA obligations. Building on this
expertise, Cliff most recently presided over a high-level conference panel of the Inter-Pacific Bar
Association in Los Angeles in 2008 on Bilateral Investment Treaties: Lessons Learned from the Latin
American Experience.
In addition, Cliff has advised Canadian and regional industry associations on the WTO consistency of
numerous investment issues, including government proposals regarding the refundable tax-credit
schemes, investment tax credits and accelerated tax depreciation for capital expenditures.
Cliff has appeared on Canadian television and radio, such as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, to
speak on international trade and investment issues, and has been quoted in several Canadian
newspapers and magazines, including the Globe and Mail, the National Post, Lexpert (a business
magazine for lawyers) and Law Times. He also writes extensively on international trade and investment
regulations, including developments regarding bilateral and NAFTA investment decisions, foreign
investment restrictions, WTO rulings, export controls, antidumping and countervailing duty decisions,
economic sanctions and a multiplicity of border issues.
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Member of the Trade Policy Business Advisory Group, a federally appointed group advising the
government on Canada’s international trade policy and negotiating agenda |
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Recipient of the Golden Jubilee Medal of Queen Elizabeth II that is given to Canadians who have
made a significant contribution to their fellow citizens, their community or to Canada |
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Immediate past chair of the Canadian Bar Association's National Section on International Law |
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Chair of the International Trade Law Committee of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association |
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Chair of the Board of Management of the Canada Europe Round Table for Business |
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Vice-chair of the Trade Committee of the BIAC (Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) |
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Co-chair of the International Affairs Committee of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce |
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Immediate past vice-chair of the board of directors of the Canadian Association of Importers and
Exporters (I.E.Canada) |
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Former director on the board of the Canadian Council on International Business and chair of the
Council's Trade Policy Committee |
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Former director and treasurer of the Canadian Council on International Law |
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Director on the board of the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada/Ontario Division |
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Lawrence Teh
Lawrence Teh is a partner in Rodyk & Davidson LLP's Litigation & Arbitration practice.
He handles a wide variety of commercial cases including international trade, banking, shipping, aviation, construction and investment disputes. He appears regularly as leading counsel in the Singapore Courts, in arbitration and in mediation sessions.
Lawrence Teh's Full Profile...
He and his colleagues, together with Indian counsel, advised one of Singapore’s largest shipyards on their investment in India recently – a one-stop integrated marine and offshore facility on India’s east coast to serve the oil and gas market. In his work on commodities, he has advised and represented the State Trading Corporation of India and Indian construction companies.
Lawrence is the chairman of the Civil Practice Committee of the Law Society of Singapore and the chairman of the committee who drafted the Singapore Law Society's arbitration rules. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and has been recognised in numerous international journals for his work in dispute resolution, shipping and aviation.
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Rafael Vergara
Rafael Vergara is a senior member and head of Carey y Cía.’s Natural Resources and Environment Group. His practice focuses on natural resources, mining, water rights, energy, environment, surface lands, project financing, corporate/commercial, municipal and planning, health and medicines.
Rafael Vergara's Full Profile...
Since 1996, Mr. Vergara has been Professor of Mining Law at the Universidad de Chile, and from 2003 at
the Universidad de Los Andes.
He has given special courses on mining law organized by the Judiciary Academy of Chile, for judges and
members of the Courts of Appeals. He has also presented papers on Chilean energy and natural resources
regulations at numerous meetings, both in Chile and abroad.
He is member of the board of the Chilean Bar Association, of the legal committee of the National Mining
Association (SONAMI), of the informal association Abogados Mineros Latinoamericanos (AMLA), of the
Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, of IBA and of IPBA.
Mr. Vergara studied law at the Universidad de Chile being admitted to the Bar in 1987. He was a participant
in the 1993 course of the Academy of American and International Law of the Southwestern Legal
Foundation in Dallas, Texas, USA and in the 1997 Program of Instruction for Lawyers of the Harvard
University Law School. |
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Shuji Yamaguchi
Shuji Yamaguchi specializes in maritime, insurance, reinsurance, litigation, and aviation law. He serves as a legal advisor to the Japan International Freight Forwarders Association and the Japan Air Cargo Forwarders Association, and has co-authored Arrest of Ship, Japan Civil Law Code Vol. 1, and Guide Book of International Multimodal Transportation.
Shuji Yamaguchi's Full Profile...
Shuji Yamaguchi specializes in maritime, insurance, reinsurance, litigation,
and aviation law. He serves as a legal advisor to the Japan International
Freight Forwarders Association and the Japan Air Cargo Forwarders
Association, and has coauthored Arrest of Ship, Maritime Law Handbook,
Japan Civil Law Code Vol. 1, and Guide Book of International Multimodal
Transportation, and Shipping in 32 jurisdictions worldwide 2010.
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Jimmy Yim
Mr Jimmy Yim, Senior Counsel, is the Managing Director of the Litigation & Dispute Resolution Department of Drew & Napier LLC, a leading legal practice in Singapore. Mr. Yim has been at the foremost of the litigation and arbitration bar and consistently ranked by leading legal periodicals, such as Best Lawyers Singapore, Whos Who Legal, Asia Pacific Legal 500 and Asia Law Profiles.
Jimmy Yim's Full Profile...
Mr. Yim has been at the foremost of the litigation and arbitration bar and consistently ranked by leading
legal periodicals and his own peers. He is named in The Best Lawyers in Singapore® 2008 and 2009 in
the field of Litigation, specially commended in the 2008 edition of Who’s Who Legal for the categories
Commercial Litigation and Commercial Arbitration, where he is noted as being “very high profile in this
area, and deservedly so”. He is recommended as a leading individual in Dispute Resolution in every
edition of Asia Pacific Legal 500 since their 2000/2001 edition, and the 2007/2008 edition writes that Mr.
Yim is part of the “stellar team” of Drew & Napier’s arbitration group, adding that the firm “takes its
excellence in disputes into the arbitration sector”. Mr. Yim is also listed by name in several editions of
Asia Law Profiles.
Drew & Napier’s Dispute Resolution Practice Group, headed by Mr. Yim, is widely recognised as the
leader in the field. The practice is consistently ranked top tier by leading publications including Asia
Pacific Legal 500, and Chambers Global, and recently received the Commercial Litigation Law Firm of
the Year as well as the International Arbitration Law Firm of the Year award at the Asian Legal Business
(ALB) Southeast Asia Law Awards 2009. Drew is the only Singapore firm to receive both awards, this
being the second time it has done so.
Areas of Practice
Mr Yim’s practice covers a broad spectrum of Civil & Commercial Litigation and Arbitration. He has
acted as Counsel in numerous international and domestic arbitrations under Singapore International
Arbitration Centre (“SIAC”) Rules (both Domestic and International Rules), International Chamber of
Commerce (“ICC”) Rules and UNCITRAL Rules and occasionally as an arbitrator.
Litigation & Dispute Resolution
Experience
Mr Yim has handled a number of High Court trials and appeals before the Court of Appeal, the highest
court in the Republic of Singapore. A sampling of his appearances before the Court of Appeal are as
follows:
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[2008] SGCA 37 – Chow Kwok Chuen v Chow Kwok Chi and Another: An appeal against the
winding-up of a company pursuant to Section 254(1)(i) of the Companies Act (Cap 50) on grounds
that it was just an equitable. |
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[2007] 3 SLR 86 – Soh Beng Tee & Co Pte Ltd v Fairmount Development Pte Ltd: An appeal against
the decision of an arbitration award on the basis that it contravened the rules of natural justice. |
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[2006] 1 SLR 901/ [2006] SGCA 1 – Asian Corporate Services (SEA) Pte Ltd v Eastwest
Management Ltd (Singapore Branch): An appeal against the decision of the High Court in setting
aside an Anton Piller Order. |
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[2006] 3 SLR 827 / [2006] SGCA 23 – Sim Yong Kim v Evenstar Investments Pte Ltd: An appeal
against the decision of the High Court in dismissing the appellant’s petition to wind up the respondent
on “just and equitable” ground under s 254(1)(i) of the Companies Act (Cap 50). |
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[2004] 4 SLR 574 / [2004] SGCA 44 – Romar Positioning Equipment Pte Ltd v Merriwa Nominees
Pty Ltd: An appeal against the decision of the High Court that the signing and forwarding of a Deed
was not condition precedent to the obligation to pay under the Deed. |
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[2000] 1 SLR 401 / [1999] SGCA 88 – Hunter Manufacturing Pte Ltd and Anor v Soundtex
Switchgear & Engineering Pte Ltd (Appeal No: 1): An appeal on the infringement of Registered
Design, locus standi and the defences of acquiescence, waiver and estoppel. |
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[2000] 1 SLR 385 / [1999] SGCA 90 – Chew Kong Huat and Others v Ricwil (Singapore) Pte Ltd: An
appeal on the principles of preventing double recovery when assessing damages, directors breach of
fiduciaries duties under Section 157(1) Companies Act (Cap 50) and tort of conspiracy. |
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[2000] 3 SLR 145 / [2000] SGCA 29 – Super Coffeemix Manufacturing LTd v Unico Trading Pte
Ltd: An appeal against the decision of the High Court in dismissing an action for infringement of
trade mark and/or passing off. |
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[1998] 1 SLR 234 / [1997] SGCA 49 – Soon Peck Wah v Woon Che Chye: An appeal against the
decision of the High Court in dismissing an application for the custody of a child.; |
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[1996] 1 SLR 113 / [1995] SGCA 79 – RSP Architects Planners & Engineers v Ocean Front PTe Ltd
and Anor Appeal: An appeal on the issue of whether a Management Corporation was competent to
institute and maintain an action in its own name and whether a Management Corporation was barred
from claiming for pure economic loss. |
Mr Yim’s experience in international arbitration ranges from disputes concerning energy projects,
building construction, pharmaceutical contracts, distributorship agreements and joint-venture contracts of
various kinds. Some of his notable and successful arbitration cases include:-
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Presently acting for a Japanese corporation in a multi-million dispute between joint-venture partners
over the sale and implementation of energy management systems to State Electricity Boards in India
governed by ICC Rules. The claims include allegations of fraud, misrepresentation,
misuse/conversion of intellectual property and loss of opportunity. The Joint Venture Agreement is
governed by Japanese law. |
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Presently acting for a Japanese corporation in a joint-venture dispute with a Hong Kong public-listed
corporation over solid waste disposal systems and incineration plants where the claims exceeds
US$10 million and the contract is governed by Japanese law. |
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Presently acting for a Malaysian Government Link Company that is advancing claims against its
Chinese joint venture partner for breaches of a US$45 million joint venture agreement in the heavy
industry sector. This is a unique case, involving issues relating to the Chinese national policy for the
entry of foreign investment in a predominantly Chinese industry. |
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Acted for a company involved in an oil-rigging dispute off the coast of Terengganu, Malaysia. This is
a multiple-party arbitration case governed by Malaysian law. |
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A $20 million Singapore dollar dispute over the collapse of a cement silo in Singapore arbitrated
under SIAC Domestic Rules involving issues of negligence, novus actus interveniens and damages for
notional repair. This case included 2 appeals to the Court of Appeal (allowed under SIAC Domestic
Rules), which were both successfully argued by Mr Yim – [2004] 4 SLR 353 / [2004] SGCA 40 –
Salcon Ltd v United Cement Pte Ltd. |
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Acted for a company in a multi-million dollar dispute over the construction and delivery of boilers for
a power plant project in Thailand. The arbitration was governed by the ICC Rules and it involved
issues of build-to-order specifications, international product & material safety standards and the right
to reject delivery governed by Thai law. |
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Advised on a US$200 million dispute over the construction and launch into orbit of a
telecommunications satellite under UNCITRAL Rules. The dispute involved issues of delay, recission
of contract and force majeure due to inter alia a United States Department of State Public Notice
prohibiting the launch of U.S. satellites by rockets from the People’s Republic of China which was
amicably settled. |
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Advised on a US$60 million dispute over the construction of a power plant in Thailand arbitrated
under ICC Rules involving allegations of force majeure as a result of the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis,
fraud in the tender process and time bar. The dispute was amicably resolved. |
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Defended a US$10 million claim over the licensing of data gathering & retrieval software arbitrated
under ICC Rules involving issues of fraudulent misrepresentation and anticipatory breach governed
by Thai law. |
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Defended a software copyright owner in a multi-million dollar claim by a mainland Chinese
distributor of the most successful MMORPG (Massively Multi-Player Online Role Playing Game) in
the People’s Republic of China (with 70 million registered players). The arbitration was governed by
Korean law and arbitrated under ICC Rules and it involved jurisdictional issues of incorporation of
arbitration clauses, estoppel, cross claims by one Respondent against another and the effect of parallel
lawsuits commenced by the parties on similar issues. |
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Appointed as an ICC arbitrator in a multi-million dollar dispute governed by Sri Lankan law between
a state owned enterprise in Sri Lanka with a monopoly in bunker supply to vessels and a commercial
bunker supplier involving jurisdictional issues on the arbitration agreement, estoppel and time bar as
well as substantive issues on remoteness of damages and the duty to mitigate losses. |
Appointments / Membership
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President, Singapore Island Country Club |
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Honorary Legal Advisor, British High Commission |
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Legal Assessor, Singapore Medical Council |
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Member of the Panel of Mediators, Financial Industry Disputes Resolution Centre, The Association of
Banks in Singapore |
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Member, Ministry of Law Steering Committee on Legal Aid |
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Member, Citizenship Committee of Inquiry, Ministry of Home Affairs |
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Member, Criminal Legal Representation and Social of the Senior Counsel Forum |
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Chairman, CWT Audit Committee |
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Member, Singapore Sports Council Independent Audit Panel |
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Fellow, Singapore Institute of Arbitrators |
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Member, Inter-Pacific Bar Association |
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Regional Arbitrator, Singapore International Arbitration Centre |
Other Directorships
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Concord Energy Pte Ltd |
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CWT Limited |
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Twentieth Century Fox Film (East) Pte Ltd |
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Alife Ltd |
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Low Keng Huat (Singapore) Ltd |
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Singapore Medical Group Limited |
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