Melissa Ng

Melissa Ng is an Associate Director in Drew & Napier's Dispute Resolution practice group, focusing on international arbitration and complex commercial and corporate disputes. She has acted in a broad range of cross-border matters involving shareholder and company disputes, infrastructure and construction projects, and commercial and investor-state disputes involving sovereign governments.

She has advised and acted for clients in international arbitrations under the rules of the SIAC, HKIAC, ICC, KCAB and ICSID, and has appeared at all levels of the Singapore courts. Notable matters include representing more than 300 affected investors from Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan with a claim size of US$300 million in disputes against the Swiss Federal Government arising from the write-down of Credit Suisse Additional Tier 1 bonds; representing an international telecommunications supplier in enforcement proceedings arising from an ICC arbitration against a sovereign Asian government for claims amounting to US$25 million over an aborted satellite communications project; representing the founders and minority shareholders of an algorithmic trading company worth US$120 million in High Court suits against majority shareholders involving allegations of diversion of assets and intellectual property; and representing the BVI holding company of a power generation business in a HKIAC arbitration in claims worth US$20 million against a minority shareholder.

Melissa holds an LL.B. (Magna Cum Laude) from Singapore Management University (2018), where she was winner of the Michael Hwang Prize for International Commercial Arbitration and represented SMU in the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot and the Philip C. Jessup International Moot. She was admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore in 2021 and served as a Justices' Law Clerk of the Supreme Court of Singapore. In 2025, she was appointed as Young Independent Counsel by the Supreme Court of Singapore.