KOH Swee Yen, Senior Counsel

Koh Swee Yen, Senior Counsel, is the Head of the International Arbitration Practice and a Partner in the Asset Recovery & International Enforcement, Commercial & Corporate Disputes and Shipping, International Trade & Commodities Disputes Practices at WongPartnership, specialising in arbitration and mediation. Her practice focuses on complex, high‑value and multi‑jurisdictional disputes involving asset recovery, commodities, energy, fraud, infrastructure, international trade, joint ventures, transport and technology. She regularly appears as counsel before the Singapore Courts (including the Singapore International Commercial Court) and in international commercial and investment arbitrations under various institutional rules including ICSID, ICC, ICDR, LCIA, LMAA, SIAC and UNCITRAL.

She is a recognised Global Elite Thought Leader in Arbitration (reserved for the top 5% of practitioners worldwide), Thought Leader in Commercial Litigation and Global Leader in Asset Recovery and Energy by the Lexology Index. She was awarded Dispute Resolution Lawyer of the Year at the ALB SE Asia Law Awards 2024 and Litigation Lawyer of the Year at The Legal 500 Southeast Asia Awards 2023. She is described by Chambers as "a top legal mind" and "the best of a new generation of savvy, fully internationalised disputes specialists." She has been appointed to the ICCA Governing Board and is a member of the ICC Court, and sits on the Panel of Arbitrators of AIAC, BICAM, BAC/BIAC, DIAC, HKIAC, IIAC, KCAB and SIAC. She has been designated by Singapore to the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators.

Koh Swee Yen holds a First Class Honours LL.B. from the National University of Singapore (NUS), where she was awarded the Singapore Academy of Law prize for being the top student in her final year. She is admitted to the Singapore Bar, the Roll of Solicitors of England & Wales, and has rights of audience before the DIFC Courts. She served as a Justices' Law Clerk to the Chief Justice of Singapore and is President of the Singapore branch of the International Law Association. She is appointed by the Ministry of Home Affairs as a member of the Criminal Law Advisory Committee (Hearing) and is a Board member of the Singapore Land Authority.