The international arbitration practice at Shook Lin & Bok LLP acts across a wide range of industries, notably including banking and financial disputes, credit insurance, shipping, energy, fraud, and white-collar crime. Sarjit Singh Gill SC is the head of the team, with a practice focusing on corporate and commercial, banking, and shareholder disputes, along with being well-versed in professional negligence and fraud work. Probin Dass and Moses Lin are key to the team, with expertise in shipping and commodities. David Chan is another notable name in the team.

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Work highlights

  • Successfully acted for a local bank in an arbitration claim against credit insurers.
  • Acting for a Hong Kong subsidiary of a listed Chinese company to reclaim a US$10 million deposit placed with a Seychelles-incorporated company in relation to an infrastructure project in Indonesia.
  • Acting for the liquidator of two related commodities trading companies, part of a larger commodities trading group of companies, in claims against a credit insurer for non-payment of credit insurance claims amounting to US$22.5m.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Sarjit Singh Gill SC, David Chan