Arbitration; Banking and financial services; Civil fraud and asset tracing; Commodities and international trade; Company law; Energy and infrastructure; Jurisdiction, conflicts and enforcement; Public and administrative law; Public international law; Technology, media and telecoms
Kevin practises in the fields of public international law, international arbitration, and commercial litigation. He is qualified in England and Wales and in Singapore, and has active rights of audience at all levels of the courts in both jurisdictions.
Kevin has significant experience acting in proceedings before international courts and tribunals, and in an international and politically sensitive context. He has been involved as counsel in matters before the International Court of Justice, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, UNCLOS Annex VII tribunals, investor-State tribunals, and in inter-State mediation. He has also been appointed as legal adviser or expert by the Council of Europe, ASEAN, SAARC, the Commonwealth Secretariat, and the Energy Community Secretariat on arbitration, energy, natural resources, oceans, trade and international dispute settlement.
In arbitration, Kevin has been instructed as counsel across the full spectrum of inter-State, investor-State and commercial arbitrations. He has been instructed on a significant number of arbitration matters involving ICSID, PCA, SIAC, LCIA, DIAC, HKIAC, ICC, UNCITRAL, ECT and ad hoc arbitration frameworks, and across different jurisdictions such as England and Wales, United States, The Hague, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Luxembourg. These matters have involved a broad range of sectors including oil and gas, energy, telecommunications, mining, commodities, banking and finance, manufacture and licensing, private equity, distribution, logistics, cryptocurrency, technology, infrastructure, and engineering.
In domestic proceedings, Kevin is equally comfortable appearing as counsel in both a trial and appellate setting. He has been engaged in high-stakes disputes proceedings in both England and Singapore (including before the Singapore International Commercial Court), across a variety of legal subject matters. This has included acting in a USD 30 million contractual and civil fraud claim arising out of cross-border private equity investments, to a USD 20 million construction and engineering dispute, to a joint venture dispute arising out of a USD 740 million infrastructure and healthcare project.
Alongside his work as counsel, Kevin has taught international dispute settlement, law of the sea, international investment law and international arbitration as Visiting Professor at Zhejiang University, Lecturer at the Sorbonne-Assas International Law School, Adjunct lecturer at the National University of Singapore, and sessional lecturer at the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”.
Kevin holds law degrees from the National University of Singapore and the University of Cambridge. He accepts appointments as counsel and arbitrator.
Mandarin (fluent)