Sheila Ahuja KC co-heads A&O Shearman’s Asia-Pacific Arbitration practice and is joint chair of the firm's India Group. One of the foremost arbitration practitioners in the Asia-Pacific region, Sheila was appointed King’s Counsel in March 2025, the only solicitor-advocate among the 105 KC appointments that year.

Sheila advises clients on complex international commercial arbitration and investor-State disputes across the Asia-Pacific region. She has particular expertise in disputes arising from oil & gas, energy and infrastructure projects, joint ventures, distributorship arrangements, and complex financial products.

She also regularly sits as arbitrator, including as presiding arbitrator, and as a Deputy High Court Judge in Hong Kong.

Sheila is the highest ranked female arbitration counsel in Singapore by Chambers Asia-Pacific 2026. She is one of only three individuals ranked Band 1 for Indian Disputes by Chambers Asia-Pacific 2026, and also the sole individual recommended by Chambers Global 2026 for Dispute Resolution in Malaysia.

Daryl Chew is the managing partner of the Singapore office of Three Crowns LLP. He has an active portfolio of arbitrations involving a wide range of applicable laws and venues, arising from energy, construction, M&A, joint venture, and general commercial disputes. Daryl also serves as presiding arbitrator, co-arbitrator and sole arbitrator.

Chambers, The Legal 500 and Lexology Index commend his “outstanding track record”, “superb written advocacy”, “valuable strategic input”, and describe him as “a brilliant all-round talent” and “one of the best lawyers of his generation”.

Daryl serves as the Chairman of the Board of Maxwell Chambers, an integrated Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) complex in Singapore established to provide best-of-class facilities and services for the conduct of ADR activities. He also serves on various governmental and regional arbitration committees and lectures at several universities in Southeast Asia.

Choo Wei-Pin is the Chief Corporate Officer at Razer responsible for Global Government Relations, Ethics and Compliance, Legal, Intellectual Property and Blockchain BU. He joined Razer in 2015.

Wei-Pin serves as a director of or advisor to external organisations such as Lucence Health and various Razer subsidiaries as well as on the Razer Investment Committee. During his tenure at Razer, he has led a number of investments including THX Inc., Shield and the businesses now known as Razer Gold and FIUU. He was instrumental in the establishment of zVentures and the listing of Razer on the Hong Kong Exchange in 2017.

Wei-Pin has been recognised by various bodies as a leading legal practitioner. Prior to joining Razer, he was Senior Vice President at Capitaland.

​​​Ajay Dua is the General Counsel of IBM Asia Pacific based in Singapore. Ajay has cross jurisdictional experience having worked on a wide variety of matters ranging from contracts, regulatory, compliance, employment, litigation, acquisitions & divestitures, corporate-secretarial, to general advisory matters.

Ajay is part of the leadership team in Asia Pacific working on transactional as well as strategic matters including responding to regulatory issues. He is focused on building and strengthening a high-performance team which can be a trusted business enabler. He is involved in regulatory and policy work and engages with a diverse set of stakeholders on such matters.

Ajay has previously been the lead counsel of IBM Middle East & Africa based out of Dubai. He joined IBM in India, which is a microcosm of global IBM, and led the legal team in India/South Asia. He has negotiated large complex deals, was the lead counsel for IBM’s strategic expansion in Africa and has also worked at the IBM development labs.

Prior to joining IBM, Ajay worked with a law firm dealing with matters such as project financing, privatisation, foreign investments, acquisitions and general corporate advisory.

Hervé Ekué is Global Managing Partner and a member of the Executive Committee and Board of A&O Shearman.

He joined Allen & Overy in France in 2001 and was the Allen & Overy Managing Partner of France between 2018 and 2024.

Hervé specialises in debt capital markets, derivatives and financial restructuring.

Enjoying significant recognition from his peers, Hervé has been Chambers’ top-ranked lawyer in Debt Capital Markets in France for many years and the only ranked “Star Individual”. Hervé was ranked in France as part of the “Top 40 lawyers of the CAC40 companies” (Forbes/LJA).

Fatima Ghaith is a tri-qualified lawyer admitted in Bahrain, England and Wales, and Scotland, and a bilingual (English/Arabic) arbitrator and mediator. Her career began at Baker & McKenzie in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, where she specialised in Islamic Finance within banking and project finance, advising major international and Saudi entities on multi-billion-dollar transactions, including landmark financings for Ma'aden and SABIC. Currently, Fatima is the Associate General Counsel for a leading international upstream oil and gas company, overseeing legal affairs across Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Oman. Acknowledged for her excellence, she received the 2024 LexisNexis Women in Law Award for General Counsel (Small team). Fatima also serves on the YSIAC Council for the EMEA region.

Jeremy Lack is an international lawyer, mediator, arbitrator and Appropriate Dispute Resolution (ADR) specialist based in Geneva, Switzerland. Admitted to the Bars of England & Wales, New York, Geneva and the US Patent & Trademark Office, he is the founder and managing director of LAWTECH.CH and InnovADR SA. He is an advisor to Helvetica Avocats (CH), a Door Tenant with Quadrant Chambers (UK), and the external General Counsel of MNHI (US). He specializes in complex cross-border commercial, technology and IP disputes, helping multinational companies, governments, family businesses, investors and entrepreneurs design tailored dispute prevention and resolution processes using mediation, conciliation, arbitration and other mixed-mode ADR techniques. Jeremy is an IMI Certified Mediator and Mediation Advocate, accredited by leading ADR institutions worldwide, including SIMC, SIMI, SMC, ResoX and Sage Mediation in Singapore. He has been recognized as a Global Elite Thought Leader by Lexology Index since 2019 and is ranked by Chambers Global 2026 as a Market Leader in Mediation.

Toby Landau KC is a barrister, advocate and arbitrator, and member of the Bars of England & Wales, Singapore, New York, the BVI, Northern Ireland, and registered in the DIFC.

As Counsel, he has argued hundreds of major international commercial, investor-State and inter-state arbitrations, as well as ground-breaking cases in the highest courts of England, Singapore, Hong Kong, Pakistan and the Caribbean.

As Arbitrator, he has extensive experience worldwide in commercial and investor-State disputes. He is Vice-Chairman of the SCCA; Vice President of the SIAC Court of Arbitration; Member of the Governing Board of ICCA; Fellow of the CIArb and Chartered Arbitrator; member of the ICSID Panel; Bencher of Middle Temple in London. He was a draftsman of the English Arbitration Act 1996.

He holds a first-class law degree and a first-class BCL from Oxford University (Eldon Scholar) and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School (Kennedy Scholar).

Jieyun Li is the Head of Dispute Resolution and Regulatory Investigations at Alibaba Group, where she leads the management of litigation, dispute resolution, and investigations across multiple jurisdictions.

At Alibaba, Jieyun has managed some of the highest-value cross-border litigation involving Chinese enterprises, including high-profile securities class actions in the United States, IP disputes across Europe, and regulatory and enforcement matters in the US, Europe, and Asia. Prior to joining Alibaba, she practised IP and litigation at Deacons in Hong Kong and King & Wood Mallesons in Beijing.

George Lim is Chairman of the Singapore International Mediation Centre. He was President of the Law Society of Singapore from 1998 to 1999, and was appointed Senior Counsel in 2010.

George has mediated close to 1,000 disputes, and has extensive experience mediating cross-border disputes in Shanghai, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, the Maldives, South Korea, Australia, Fiji, and Dubai. In particular, he has successfully mediated investor-state disputes as well as claims by or against governments. In 2021, he successfully mediated a US$1B dispute between South Korean conglomerate Posco Energy and FuelCell Energy.

George was Singapore’s mediation consultant to UNCITRAL Working Group II, which led to the adoption of the Singapore Convention on Mediation in 2019. In October 2019, he was appointed to the Roster of Panel Chairs of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) on Dispute Settlement. George also serves on the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes’ panel of conciliators.

Ilona Logvinova is the Chief AI Officer at HSF Kramer, leading the firm’s AI strategy and integration across its global practices. A recognised leader at the intersection of AI, law, and innovation, she has driven transformative AI initiatives across the legal industry.

Prior to HSF Kramer, Ilona led AI innovation and transformation at Cleary Gottlieb, including oversight of the firm’s in-house AI development team following its acquisition of Springbok.ai. She previously held leadership roles at McKinsey Digital and McKinsey Legal, and earlier served as Senior Counsel at Mastercard and as an associate at Fried Frank.

Ilona advises Legal AI startups and growth-stage companies, serves on industry advisory boards, and is a frequent speaker and author on AI and legal innovation. She holds a BA in Economics and Philosophy from Columbia University and a JD from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.

Bill Marsh is a leading international commercial and investor-state mediator who has been mediating full-time since 1991 – in a wide range of commercial and other disputes involving governments, national and international businesses, and parties from more than 50 countries, covering virtually every area of law and business.

In addition to his commercial mediation practice, Bill mediates highly complex conflicts involving environmental, religious, ethnic, political, and human rights issues. He is also an experienced investor-state mediator, and sits on the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) Chairman’s panel.

Bill has served as an adviser on mediation to many governments and international institutions, and represented the United Kingdom in the United Nations negotiations that produced the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Mediation. He trains and mentors mediators from around the world, and is an Honorary Professor at University College London.

Mark McLaughlin is Assistant Professor of Law at the Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University, with a joint appointment at the Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy (SIDRA). He has been a trainer for government officials around the world in managing their investment treaty commitments and navigating complex disputes, and coordinates the investment dispute programme of UNCITRAL Academy. In 2026 he was an expert contributor to UNCITRAL Working Group II on Dispute Settlement, the Singapore Cooperation Programme, and is a member of the ISDS Academic Forum. He is co-editor of a forthcoming volume on Global Trends in Mediation, and teaches on Dispute Resolution Advocacy and Foreign Investment Law in Asia.

Ng Jern-Fei KC is an experienced counsel specialising in commercial disputes, with over 20 years' experience appearing in different jurisdictions, including England, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands. He has acted as counsel in over 400 cases and as arbitrator in over 50 cases.

Frauke Nitschke is a Chief Counsel at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). Frauke serves as the team lead for ICSID staff handling proceedings in English. Frauke also serves as Secretary in investor-State proceedings. Frauke further leads ICSID’s investor-State mediation activities, including the drafting of the 2022 ICSID Mediation Rules and amendments to ICSID’s conciliation frameworks. Frauke has conducted investment mediation skills trainings for practitioners, mediators and government officials. Frauke chaired ICSID’s Investment Mediation Insights webinar series. Prior to joining ICSID, Frauke served in the World Bank’s Legal Vice Presidency and the Inspection Panel. Frauke is fellow of the Weinstein JAMS International Fellowship Program and an accredited mediator. She is admitted to the D.C. and New York State Bars and holds a law degree from the Freie Universität Berlin, an LLM from Georgetown University Law Center, and a master’s degree in psychology from the FernUniversität Hagen.

Siraj Omar SC is a Senior Counsel of the Supreme Court of Singapore, having been appointed in 2019. He has almost 30 years of experience litigating complex, high-value commercial disputes in the trial and appellate courts of Singapore as well as in international arbitrations.

Siraj sits on the Board Executive Committee of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) and also serves as a civilian panel member on the Military Court of Appeal, Deputy Commissioner of the Government Procurement Adjudication Tribunal and as Chief Examiner for the Dispute Resolution module of the Singapore Bar Examination administered by the Singapore Institute of Legal Education (SILE).

He holds Fellowships at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (SIArb) and the Singapore Academy of Law.

Jadranka Osrečak holds the position of assistant professor. She completed postgraduate studies (Master of Laws) in international comparative commercial arbitration, international investment arbitration and international energy arbitration with distinction at Queen Mary, University of London. She also finished additional education at Queen Mary in the writing of arbitral awards. She earned her doctorate, magna cum laude, from the doctoral program in commercial and company law at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. Her dissertation paper’s topic focused on third-party funding in international commercial and investment arbitration. She is listed as an arbitrator to the Permanent Court of Arbitration of the Croatian Chamber of Economy. She works at the State Attorney's Office of the Republic of Croatia, where she manages cases in international commercial and investment arbitration, as well as disputes before foreign courts.

Jelita Pandjaitan is Partner and Asia Head of Litigation, Arbitration & Investigations at Linklaters, based in Singapore. She has more than 20 years' experience advising clients on complex cross-border disputes, regulatory investigations and crisis situations across Asia, with a particular focus on Southeast Asia. Jelita represents multinational corporations, financial institutions and investors in high-stakes arbitration, litigation and investigations, and regularly advises on the legal, regulatory and reputational challenges arising from technological change and business transformation. She has acted as counsel and arbitrator under the rules of major arbitral institutions, including SIAC, LCIA, ICC and UNCITRAL, and is recognised by leading legal directories for her disputes and investigations practice. A frequent speaker at regional arbitration forums, Jelita is a member of P.R.I.M.E Finance and the Chartered Institute of Arbitration. In her management roles in Linklaters, Jelita leads the transformation of legal practice with AI technology as well as considering the sustainability impacts for legal business.

Guy Pendell is the Chair and founder of pinq, a London-based lawtech start up, focussed on using technology to drive better and more efficient dispute resolution. He is also a disputes partner at CMS in the UK, with 30 years' experience of international dispute resolution. His practice at CMS involves a mix of international arbitration and litigation, primarily in the technology, corporate, commercial, life sciences and hotels & leisure sectors. He is the chair of ICC UK's arbitration and ADR committee and the co-head of CMS's global dispute resolution practice group.

Lara Quie is a Senior Director at FTI Consulting in London. A former Antitrust and Competition Solicitor, her role is to connect lawyers to the expertise they need to resolve their cases. Lara cares deeply about building long-term relationships and helping her clients succeed. She lived in Singapore between 2014 and 2024 and loves to visit the Little Red Dot to reconnect with friends and colleagues in the Legal Community. Lara is the host of the Legal Genie Podcast, a top legal Podcast featuring movers and shakers in the legal ecosystem.

Jaikanth Shankar is a partner and the CEO of Davinder Singh Chambers. He undertakes a broad range of work in the areas of international commercial arbitration, commercial litigation, international investment treaty arbitration and insolvency. He also has an active investigations practice. He regularly appears before the Singapore Courts and has been involved in arbitrations under various institutions.

Jaikanth has handled joint venture and shareholder disputes, claims involving fraud, breaches of directors’ duties, complex contractual and commercial disputes, employment disputes, cases involving white-collar crime as well as insolvency-related disputes. He has also acted for high-profile clients in defamation suits.

Jaikanth has been consistently recognised for his counsel work in notable publications. He has been described as “the best advocate in his generation”, a “top – notch lawyer”, a “brilliant court advocate”, an “excellent strategiser who pays attention to detail” and as having “an encyclopaedic knowledge of Singapore law”.

Elizabeth Silbert is Partner and Co-Head of the International Disputes Group at King & Spalding, based in Atlanta. Her practice spans international commercial and investor-State arbitration, with a particular focus on the energy, infrastructure, and pharma industries. She is recognised in Chambers USA, Legal 500, LawDragon Top 500 Global Litigators, and was named one of GAR’s 45 under 45 International Arbitration Lawyers. She has repeated experience with disputes in Southeast Asia, and with arbitrations seated in Singapore.

Sun Huawei specialises in international commercial and investment treaty arbitration. Over her twenty years of practice, she has represented clients in international commercial and investment treaty cases adjudicated under major arbitration rules around the world. Huawei has particular experience of complex and parallel proceedings involving different jurisdictions. She has expertise in public international law and is assisting China in defending treaty claims brought by foreign investors.

Huawei is HKIAC’s Vice-Chair, a member of the HKIAC Proceedings Committee, a former member of the HKIAC Appointments Committee and an officer at the IBA Arbitration Committee. Huawei is listed on the Panel of Arbitrators of HKIAC, CIETAC, CMAC and SCIA. She is also a designated member of the General Panel of Mediators of the International Organisation for Mediation.

Joe Tirado is an Independent International Arbitrator, Adjudicator, Expert Determiner, Conciliator, Accredited Commercial and Investor-State Mediator and ADR Consultant based in London. He has over 35 years of dispute resolution experience having held global leadership positions in leading firms from four major jurisdictions; UK, US (Illinois and Texas) and Spain. He has handled hundreds of cases in more than 70 jurisdictions with a combined total in dispute of over US$ 10 billion. He is a solicitor-advocate with full rights of audience before all civil courts in England & Wales, a CEDR accredited commercial and Investor-State mediator, a Civil Mediation Council Fellow, a former ICSID conciliator appointed by the President of the World Bank Group (2018-2024) and a panel member of a number of leading invitation-only arbitration and mediation panels, including the European Union and the United Nations.

Mr Edwin Tong SC was appointed Minister for Law and Second Minister for Home Affairs in May 2025. Prior to this, he served as Minister for Culture, Community and Youth, and Second Minister for Law from 2020 to 2025, and as Senior Minister of State at the Ministry of Law and the Ministry of Health from 2018 to 2020.

As Minister for Law, Mr Tong drives policies and initiatives to uphold the rule of law, strengthen Singapore’s legal framework, advance access to justice, and develop the legal industry.

Before entering public service, Mr Tong was Head of the Restructuring and Corporate Insolvency Department, Co-Head of the Litigation & Dispute Resolution Department, and member of the Executive Committee at Allen & Gledhill LLP. Widely acknowledged to be a leading lawyer of the Singapore Bar, he was appointed Senior Counsel in 2015.

Mr Tong read law at the National University of Singapore.

Byung-Chol (B.C.) Yoon is a senior partner at Kim & Chang’s International Arbitration Practice and is widely regarded as a foundational authority on disputes in the Asia-Pacific region. With a distinguished career spanning 35 years, he has served as counsel in over 200 complex commercial and investment treaty cases.

His expertise covers a vast range of sectors, from energy, infrastructure, and technology to high-stakes M&A projects. Beyond his work as counsel, B.C. serves as an arbitrator and has contributed to the governance of several leading institutions. He has previously served on the boards or courts of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), and the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board (KCAB), is currently an inaugural Court Member of the Abu Dhabi International Arbitration Centre, or arbitrateAD. He had also been designated by the Republic of Korea to the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) panel of arbitrators.

Professor Mimi Zou is a Barrister on Tenth Floor Chambers (Wentworth/Selborne) in Sydney, with a broad commercial, tax and regulatory practice. She is also a globally renowned scholar in AI and law and is Head of School of Private and Commercial Law at UNSW.

Mimi was previously Chair/Professor in Commercial Law at Exeter (UK) and inaugural Fellow in Chinese Law at Oxford, where she founded the Deep Tech Dispute Resolution Lab. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and recipient of the 2025 Women in Law Trailblazer Award.

Mimi holds a DPhil and BCL from Oxford. She has been admitted as a solicitor in NSW (Australia) and called to the Bar in England and Wales, with experience advising on cross-border transactions and disputes across Asia and Europe. She has previously worked in the disputes teams at Linklaters and Mallesons. She has professional proficiency in Mandarin and Cantonese.