Andrew Yeo

Andrew Yeo is a Partner and Co-Head of the Litigation & Dispute Resolution Department at Allen & Gledhill, specialising in dispute resolution, international arbitration, and construction and engineering disputes. He has extensive experience in several large international arbitrations centring on transport, infrastructure, information technology, industrial plants, and construction projects, as well as a broad litigation practice that encompasses a wide range of areas.

Andrew has acted for a government authority in an arbitration concerning a major infrastructure project including an underground/underwater tunnel with sums in excess of S$200 million in dispute; for the employer in two public inquiries that attracted headline media interest in Singapore, one relating to the collapse of a cut and cover tunnel and the other to major incidents of disruption to the subway transport system; for a statutory authority in litigation with one of the world's largest IT services companies in a dispute over a major software development project with the amount in dispute exceeding S$40 million; for a multinational media company in an arbitration concerning the broadcast rights of major events where the amount in dispute exceeded US$80 million; and for the plant owner in an arbitration concerning an investment in a major chemical plant in Indonesia where the amount in dispute exceeded US$60 million.

Andrew holds an LL.B. (Hons) from King's College London. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales (Middle Temple) in 1991 and to the Singapore Bar in 1992. He joined Allen & Gledhill's Litigation & Dispute Resolution Department in 1992 and was made a Partner in 1998, becoming Co-Head of the Department in 2008. He is a Fellow of both the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (SIArb) and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb).

He has been recommended for his expertise in litigation and international arbitration in Chambers Asia-Pacific, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, Who's Who Legal: Asset Recovery, and Benchmark Asia-Pacific, with clients describing him as a "very seasoned lawyer" who is "always honest and upfront" and praising his "sagacity and ability to keep things on an even keel".