Jonathan Yong

Jonathan Yong is a Director in the firm's Dispute Resolution practice group, focusing on complex and high-stakes commercial litigation and international arbitration. He is frequently called upon to argue significant disputes across a wide spectrum of industries, especially where issues span multiple jurisdictions, are highly time-sensitive, and involve novel points of law.

He represents clients through disputes at all levels of the Singapore courts, including the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC), as well as in international arbitration proceedings conducted under the SIAC, ICC, PCA, UNCITRAL and ICSID Rules. Notable matters include representing an international contractor in two UNCITRAL arbitrations against the Government of Maldives for claims amounting to over US$155 million relating to a public housing project; representing a Korean manufacturer in two SIAC arbitrations against its Iranian exclusive distributor for claims worth more than US$387 million; representing an international communications equipment company in an ICC arbitration against a sovereign Asian government for claims amounting to US$25 million; representing a Singapore advertising and graphic design firm in a copyright infringement claim against a renowned luxury hotel operator; and representing 377 purchasers of the TerraUSD cryptocurrency in a representative action suit against Terraform Labs and its founders arising from the TerraUSD crash in 2022.

Jonathan holds an LL.B. (Hons) from the National University of Singapore (2016), where he was a Kent Ridge Scholar, and was admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore in 2017. He represented NUS in the prestigious Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot.