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Amarjit Kaur
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Work Department
Litigation and Arbitration
Position
Partner, Litigation and Arbitration
Career
Amarjit joins Withers KhattarWong in Singapore as a dispute resolution partner from a US-based international law firm, where she developed and headed its employment and global mobility practice. She is a commercial disputes lawyer who has acted in high-value and complex litigation and international arbitration matters.
She has represented Fortune 500 companies and ultra high net worth individuals in shareholder, corporate insolvency, employment, and large scale professional negligence / construction disputes. She has guided executives and companies through complex employment issues arising out of investigations, reduction in force exercises, business transfers and M&As. Amarjit is a frontrunner in training and performing cultural assessments on #MeToo and diversity issues.
Amarjit has been noted for her expertise in labour and employment law in the 2019 and 2020 editions of The Legal 500: Asia Pacific. In 2017, she was recognised by the Singapore Business Review as one of Singapore’s most influential lawyers aged 40 and under. Amarjit sits on the Project Law Help Committee under the auspices of the Law Society’s pro bono services and is a strong proponent of pro bono work.
Languages
EnglishPunjabiHindiBahasa MelayuBahasa IndonesiaThai
Memberships
Law Society of Singapore
Singapore Academy of Law
Education
London School of Economics and Political Science, 2009, LLM, Public International Law, MeritNational University of Singapore, 2003, LLB, Hons