Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP

Partner, Shipping & International Trade

Winston Kwek is a partner at Rajah & Tann Singapore's Shipping & International Trade practice.

Winston is active in dispute resolution work in the Singapore courts as well as in international arbitrations and mediation. He was appointed to the pioneer batch of Senior Accredited Specialists for Maritime and Shipping Law by the Singapore Academy of Law’s Specialist Accreditation Scheme, and has been recognised as one of Asia’s Super 50 Disputes Lawyers by Asian Legal Business 2023.

Winston has extensive experience in a wide variety of shipping related work ranging from marine insurance, ship sale and purchase, ship finance, casualty work, ship construction and repair, structured finance, commodities and charterparty disputes to shipping fraud cases.

He is the preferred counsel for banks and financial institutions, both local and international, when it comes to ‘work-outs’ (insolvency, re-structuring and mortgage enforcement) – having led the development of direct judicial sales of ships, both singly and in a fleet, arrested in Singapore to specific buyers instead of via the traditional Sheriff’s public auctions.

Winston also taught the Law of Marine Insurance at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore as an Adjunct Associate Professor, and is the Editor of Marine Insurance, Halsbury’s Laws of Singapore.

Fellow, Singapore Institute of Arbitrators Panel Arbitrator, Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration Panel Arbitrator, China Maritime Arbitration Commission Specialist Mediator, Singapore International Mediation Centre Associate Mediator, Maritime Panel, Singapore Mediation Centre Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Fellow, Singapore Institute of Arbitrators Independent Director, BH Global Marine Limited Independent Director, Penguin International Limited Adjunct Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (2003 to 2016) Adjunct Fellow, Centre for Maritime Law, National University of Singapore (2015 to 2018)

LLB (Hons), National University of Singapore Advocate & Solicitor, Singapore Senior Accredited Specialist (Maritime and Shipping), Singapore Academy of Law