Yan Yee Wong
Associate
Norton Rose Fulbright (Asia) LLP
Related services and key industries
Biography
Yan Yee, Wong is a litigation and disputes lawyer based in Singapore. She focuses on international commercial arbitration and investor-state arbitration.
Yan Yee's experience extends across a wide range of disputes including contractual disputes, shareholder disputes and investor-state disputes.
Professional experience
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- qualified in Singapore 2018
- Acted for the directors and majority shareholders of a landmark 26-year-old departmental store in Singapore known as "Mustafa Centre" with an annual revenue exceeding S$464 million (as at 2018), to defend against claims of minority oppression and breach of directors' duties before the Singapore Courts. Currently acting for the majority shareholders in the valuation of shares for the buy-out ordered.
- Acted for South African investors to resist an application by the Kingdom of Lesotho to the Singapore Courts to set aside a Permanent Court of Arbitration award directing that a tribunal be convened to resolve expropriation claims of US$1.8 billion. The Singapore Court of Appeal's decision on the matter is found in Swissbourgh Mines (Pty) Ltd and others v Kingdom of Lesotho [2019] 1 SLR 263.
- Acted for the Republic of India in an application to the Singapore Courts to set aside a Permanent Court of Arbitration jurisdictional ruling obtained by Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., involving claims of approximately US$290 million, and an application involving the same dispute to resist the admission of Queen's Counsel in Re Gearing, Matthew Peter QC [2019] SGHC 249.
- Acted for a state-owned company to resist an application to the Singapore Courts by a company to set aside an ICC award permitting the termination of a 20-year procurement contract worth at least US$449 million in BVU v BVX [2019] SGHC 69.
- Acted for a company in 2 Singapore-seated arbitrations relating to the licensing of a massively multiplayer online role-playing game concerning aggregate claims of US$2.072 billion.
- Co-author, "Amendment of Pleadings in Arbitration" [2022] SAL Prac 21, SAL Practitioner, 7 October 2022
- Co-author, "Imposing Conditions on a Stay of Proceedings in Favour of Arbitration" [2022] SAL Prac 5, SAL Practitioner, 22 February 2022
- Co-author, "CBS v CBP: Appeal Mechanism for Procedural Rulings Infringing Natural Justice" Kluwer Arbitration Blog, 6 November 2021
- Co-author, "Setting Aside an Investment Arbitration Award: A Case Brief of Swissbourgh v Lesotho" ICC Dispute Resolution Bulletin, 2019 Issue 1
- Co-author, "What's next for Asia Pacific?" Global Arbitration Review, 15 August 2019
- Contributor, Singapore Civil Procedure 2020 (Sweet & Maxwell, 2019)
- Contributor, Singapore Civil Procedure 2019 (Sweet & Maxwell, 2018)
- Contributor, A Guide to the SIAC Arbitration Rules (Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition, 2018)
- English
Insights
Insolvency and arbitration: A landmark judgment in Sian Participation Corp v Halimeda International Ltd [2024] UKPC 16
Publication | September 23, 2024