Timothy Tai

Timothy Tai is a Senior Associate at A&O Shearman in Singapore. He acts for and advises clients in international commercial arbitrations and investment treaty arbitrations across a wide range of sectors and jurisdictions.

He has experience in arbitrations under the ICC, HKIAC, SIAC, LCIA, DIAC, and UNCITRAL rules, and in disputes governed by both common law and civil law systems. In addition to his counsel practice, he has served as tribunal secretary in ICC and HKIAC arbitrations, and has practised international arbitration at the firm's Hong Kong and London offices.

His representative matters include acting for a Southeast Asian state-owned telecommunications company in a Singapore-seated SIAC arbitration worth over US$400 million; a Chinese pharmaceutical company in an LCIA arbitration against an Indian counterparty; a US private equity firm in an HKIAC arbitration arising from an aborted M&A transaction, in which the claims against the client were dismissed and the client was awarded its full counterclaim of US$90 million; and two oil & gas clients in a dispute arising from the termination of production sharing contracts, which settled for payment of US$800 million to the clients in 2021.

He holds a BBA (Law) (1st) and an LLB (1st) from the University of Hong Kong, and a PCLL (Distinction) from the University of Hong Kong (2017). He was admitted in Hong Kong in 2020 and in England and Wales in 2023.