Peh Aik Hin

Peh Aik Hin is a Partner at Allen & Gledhill LLP, specialising in arbitration and mediation. His main areas of practice are commercial litigation and international arbitration, including complex cross‑border disputes. He regularly acts for clients in a wide range of corporate‑related matters, including commercial contract disputes, sale of goods, property and trust cases, insurance and banking claims, shareholder disputes, claims for breach of directors' duties, land and tenancy disputes, defamation and other tortious actions, and employment matters.

He has acted as lead counsel for a global financial institution in the enforcement of a foreign judgment in excess of US$60 million in the Singapore Courts, including obtaining post‑judgment worldwide Mareva injunctions. He has also acted as lead counsel in a SIAC arbitration seated in Singapore involving claims of more than US$80 million and an ICC arbitration seated in Paris with claims of more than US$30 million. He has acted for a global financial institution in insolvency‑related proceedings of Hin Leong Trading Pte Ltd, one of Asia's largest oil traders with debts of more than $4 billion, and for two investors in a multi‑billion dollar investor‑state treaty arbitration against an Asian State. He also has niche expertise in public and administrative law, having advised and acted for statutory boards and multinational companies in judicial review and ministerial appeals.

Peh Aik Hin graduated as Valedictorian from the National University of Singapore with an LL.B. (First Class Honours) in 2007, winning several academic prizes including the Chief Justice's Prize. He was called to the Singapore Bar in 2011. Prior to joining private practice, he served at the Supreme Court of Singapore as a Justices' Law Clerk, Senior Justices' Law Clerk and Assistant Registrar, and at the Ministry of Law as Deputy Director, Legal Policy Division. He is a Fellow of the Insolvency Practitioners Association of Singapore and has been recognised as a "National Leader" and "Thought Leader" by Who's Who Legal and as a "Rising Star" for International Arbitration by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific.