Southeast Asia - Singapore

Baker McKenzie Wong & Leow

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Baker McKenzie Wong & Leow enjoys a strong reputation in multiple fields, and is ‘one of the busiest international arbitration practices in Singapore with work from a wide range of geographies and sectors’. The team is particularly well-versed in arbitrations involving technology, renewables, and third-party funding disputes, and has strong cross jurisdictional capabilities. Investor-state arbitration work is another key point of distinction of the practice that is overseen by Nandakumar Ponniya, who is recognised alongside Ashish Chugh for being ’strong advocates regularly appearing as lead counsel in arbitrations’. Within the energy and aviation sector, Richard Allen is noted.

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  • ‘One of the busiest international arbitration practices in Singapore with work from a wide range of geographies and sectors.’

  • ‘Nandakumar Ponniya and Ashish Chugh are well known in the market. They strong advocates regularly appearing as lead counsel in arbitrations.’

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Key clients

  • Border Timbers Limited (in Judicial Management), Hangani Development Co. (Private) Limited
  • Anupam Mittal

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Work highlights

  • Singapore Court proceedings to enforce an ICSID award against the Republic of Zimbabwe in a case raising issues of law that are unique to the registration of investment arbitration award against states.
  • Represented the client, founder of www.shaadi.com, a leading matchmaking and matrimony portal in South Asia, in Singapore Court proceedings to resist an anti-suit injunction obtained by the counterparty, for purposes of restraining the client continuing with his claim in the National Company Law Tribunal in Mumbai.

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