Shook Lin & Bok LLP

Litigation & Dispute Resolution; International Arbitration; Shipping & Commodities

Moses Lin is Head of Shipping and Commodities at the firm. He specialises in commercial dispute resolution, with particular experience in shipping and commodities/trade disputes. He advises clients on risk mitigation, commercial litigation and arbitration, and has acted as counsel in the State Courts, the High Court and the Court of Appeal in Singapore. His experience extends to contractual and tortious disputes, corporate insolvency, bankruptcy, directors’ duties, shareholder disputes, defamation, employment disputes, as well as foreign and domestic judgment/award enforcement actions.

Whilst his expertise covers a wide spectrum of industry sectors, Moses leads the firm’s shipping and commodities practice. He regularly advises on disputes involving shipbuilding, ship sale and purchase, ship management, charterparties and cargo loss and damage, as well as demurrage or despatch and cargo off-specification claims. On the transactional front, Moses advises on ship sale and purchase agreements as well as ship building contracts.

Moses is an Accredited Mediator with the Singapore Mediation Centre(SMC) and an Adjudicator for the SMC Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Scheme. He is also on the Panel of Mediators in the Law Society Mediation Scheme, and a member of the Maritime Law Association of Singapore. He was also previously appointed as an independent director of a company listed on the Singapore Exchange.

English, Mandarin

Advocate and Solicitor, Singapore, 2008 LLB (Hons), University College London, 2006