Gabriel Lim

Gabriel Lim is a Senior Associate at A&O Shearman, based in Singapore. His practice focuses on Arbitration and Mediation.

Gabriel represents and advises companies and entities in commercial and investment treaty arbitrations.

He has acted on arbitrations conducted under the auspices of major arbitration rules, including ICSID, SIAC, HKIAC and UNCITRAL. The matters he has worked on span various sectors, including construction, energy, telecommunications, marine heavy transport, technology, pharmaceuticals and finance.

His representative matters include acting for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. as the Claimant in an ICSID arbitration against the Kingdom of Sweden (ICSID Case No. ARB/22/2) concerning Sweden's ban of Huawei's equipment from 5G infrastructure under the China–Sweden bilateral investment treaty; acting for a South East Asian company as Claimant in a SIAC arbitration in Singapore against a European oil & gas company in a USD multi-billion dispute concerning the price and terms on which LNG was to be sold; acting for a major oil & gas company on its defence of hundreds of local court proceedings in South Asia; acting for an international consortium in a dispute arising from the development of a power project in Indonesia; acting for a joint venture partner in a series of arbitrations and court proceedings arising from a failed joint venture; acting for a bank in multiple disputes in Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong, including proceedings to set aside and resist enforcement of an arbitration award; and acting for a pharmaceutical company in an HKIAC arbitration arising from an investment in a Taiwanese biosimilar business, with a claim in excess of USD120m concerning allegations of fraud and trade secrets theft.

Prior to joining the firm, Gabriel was an associate in a leading US law firm. He was also a deputy prosecutor in the Attorney-General's Chambers (AGC) of Singapore, where he prosecuted a wide variety of criminal and regulatory matters and successfully argued a number of appellate cases before the High Court in Singapore.

He holds a B.A. in Jurisprudence with First Class Honours from the University of Oxford and was admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore in 2021. He speaks English and Mandarin.