Vivian Ang

Vivian Ang is a Consultant at Allen & Gledhill and a Notary Public and Commissioner for Oaths in Singapore, specialising in maritime law, international arbitration, and commercial litigation. She handles litigation and arbitration matters including wet and dry shipping work, international sale of goods, charterparty disputes, ship repair and construction disputes, sale and purchase of vessels, mortgage enforcement of ship and aircraft, insurance, carriage of goods, and the arrest, detention and re-possession of ship and aircraft.

Vivian has acted for the owners and master of the ORAPIN GLOBAL in a civil claim and criminal action arising out of a collision which gave rise to the largest oil spill in Singapore; for cargo owners in a US$15.8 million claim against the CHERRY, ADDAX and EPIC for delivery of cargo without production of bills of lading; and for the owners of the MAMITSA in defending claims in excess of US$150 million arising from a collision. She has also been actively involved in many arbitration disputes, both administered and ad hoc, acting as counsel and sitting as arbitrator.

Vivian holds an LL.B. (Hons) from the National University of Singapore (1980), where she graduated at the top of her class, and an LL.M. in Maritime Law from the University of Wales (UWIST). She was called to the Singapore Bar in 1981 and joined Allen & Gledhill as a Partner in 1989. She is a Senior Accredited Specialist in Maritime and Shipping Law by the Singapore Academy of Law and a member of the SCMA Panel of Arbitrators.

She has been named Global Elite Thought Leader by Lexology Index Shipping, inducted into The Legal 500 Hall of Fame, and recognised as a Litigation Star by Benchmark Litigation. She is also a member of the Maritime Law Association of Singapore (MLAS), WISTA, IBA, SCMA, and SIArb, and an Associate Mediator with the Singapore Mediation Centre.