Smitha Menon

Smitha Menon is the Head of the Restructuring & Insolvency Practice and a Partner in the International Arbitration, India and Special Situations Advisory Practices at WongPartnership, specialising in bankruptcy and insolvency law. Her main areas of practice are corporate disputes and cross‑border restructuring. She is widely recognised as a leading practitioner in restructuring and insolvency, with extensive experience advising on complex cross‑border restructurings, corporate disputes, and insolvency matters across multiple jurisdictions.

She serves as Vice President of the International Insolvency Institute, is a member of the World Bank's Insolvency and Climate Change Working Group, and is the Asia Group Leader of the World Law Group's Restructuring & Insolvency Practice Group. She is also on the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR, the Shanghai Arbitration Commission's Panel of Arbitrators, and the SIAC Specialist Panel of Arbitrators for Restructuring and Insolvency Disputes. She was the first female Singapore Court member on the ICC International Court of Arbitration and the inaugural Chair of the ICC Singapore Arbitration Group. She is a Fellow of the Insolvency Practitioners Association of Singapore and a former Council member of the Singapore Law Society. She is the first lawyer in Singapore to win the "Woman of the Year in Restructuring (Asia) Award" conferred by the International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation in 2020.

She graduated from King's College, London with an LL.B. (Hons) and is admitted to the Singapore Bar.