Allen & Gledhill LLP

International Arbitration; Litigation; Restructuring & Insolvency

Partner

Aik Hin’s main areas of practice are commercial litigation and international arbitration, including complex cross-border disputes.

He regularly acts for clients in a wide range of corporate-related matters. This includes commercial contract disputes, sale of goods, property and trust cases, insurance and banking claims, shareholder disputes, claims for breach of directors’ duties, land and tenancy disputes, defamation and other tortious actions, and employment matters.

Aik Hin has an active Singapore court practice, and has appeared as lead counsel in the highest appellate court (the Singapore Court of Appeal) in a number of commercial and arbitration-related cases. His court practice also includes significant work on the restructuring and insolvency front, where he frequently acts and advises clients on insolvency-related court processes, such as schemes of arrangement, judicial management and liquidation. He is a Fellow of the Insolvency Practitioners Association of Singapore. On the international arbitration front, Aik Hin has acted for and advised clients in, amongst others, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration and investor-state arbitrations, relating to banking, mergers and acquisitions, international sale of goods, energy and telecommunications. He also has experience in arbitration-related court proceedings, including jurisdictional challenges and setting-aside of awards.

Apart from his broad-based commercial practice, Aik Hin has niche expertise in public and administrative law, having advised and acted for both statutory boards and multinational companies in matters of judicial review and ministerial appeals.

Prior to joining Allen & Gledhill in 2012, Aik Hin spent five years with the Singapore Legal Service. He first served at the Supreme Court of Singapore as a Justices’ Law Clerk, Senior Justices’ Law Clerk and Assistant Registrar. Thereafter, he was posted to the Ministry of Law, where he undertook law reform, legal policy and arbitration-related work in his position as Deputy Director, Legal Policy Division.

English; Mandarin

Fellow of the Insolvency Practitioners Association of Singapore

Graduated as Valedictorian from the National University of Singapore with an LL.B. (Hons) degree (First Class) in 2007. Won several academic prizes, such as the Chief Justice’s Prize, Law Society of Singapore Book Prize, and Shook Lin & Bok Book Prize.