Allen & Gledhill LLP

Cybersecurity & Data Protection; Intellectual Property; International Arbitration; Litigation

Partner

Jia Yi’s main areas of practice are commercial litigation and international arbitration, with a specialisation in contentious and non-contentious intellectual property matters involving patents, trade marks, copyright, designs, domain names and confidential information.

She has represented clients in a wide range of commercial disputes, including contractual disputes, IP and technology disputes, shareholder disputes and breach of directors’ duties, and employment disputes.  She also regularly advises on regulatory issues. Apart from her commercial practice, she has niche expertise in public and administrative law, having advised and acted for both statutory boards and private corporations in matters of judicial review and ministerial appeals.

Jia Yi joined the Firm in 2011 and was an Associate at the Firm until 2015. She then spent two years with the Singapore Legal Service, where she was posted to the Ministry of Law. In her position as Assistant Director and Deputy Counsel for Parliamentary Affairs, she undertook law reform and legal policy work. She re-joined the Firm in 2017.

English; Mandarin

Co-Chairperson of the Young Practitioners’ Network and Council Member of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (SIArb).

Core Committee Member and Co-Chairperson of the Enrichment Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Singapore Arbitration Group.

Member of the Beihai Asia International Arbitration Centre (BAIAC) Committee.

Member of the Supreme Court of Singapore’s Intellectual Property Court Users’ Committee.

Founding member of the Law Society of Singapore’s Women in Practice Committee.

Member of the Law Society of Singapore’s Intellectual Property Practice Committee.

Accredited Mediator with the Singapore Mediation Centre.

Graduated from the University of Cambridge with a B.A. (Hons) degree.