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Over 20 years of experience in international arbitration. Specialised in resolving claims arising from the carriage of goods by sea and trading of commodities. Particular experience also of offshore energy and shipyard construction matters. Admitted in Singapore, Germany, England & Wales. Panel Arbitrator of SIArb, SIAC, SCMA, HKIAC, AIAC (KLRCA) and EMAC. SMC Associate Mediator on the Panel of Maritime Mediators. Fellow of the CIArb and the SIArb. Member of the LCIA Users' Council and Supporting Member of the LMAA. Recommended Lawyer for International Arbitration in Legal 500 Asia Pacific (2015-16) and Leading Individual in Shipping Litigation in Chambers Asia Pacific (2011-16).
Advocate and Solicitor, Supreme Court of Singapore
emily.choo@nus.edu.sg
Associate, ACIArb
investor-state arbitration; international commercial arbitration; public international law
Emily is Practice Fellow to Mr. J. Christopher Thomas QC and assists him on international commercial and investment arbitrations as well as other matters related to international arbitration where he was appointed as amicus curiae or as an expert. Publicly-reported arbitration and court cases include Antin Infrastructure Services and other v Spain (ICSID case), Louis Dreyfus Armateurs SAS (France) v India (PCA case), Natland Investment Group N.V. and others v Czech Republic (PCA case), Perenco v Ecuador (ICSID case) and Sanum Investments Limited v The Government of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, [2016] SGCA 57, and Swissbourgh Diamond Mines et al v Kingdom of Lesotho (as assistant to the amici curiae before the Singapore Court of Appeal). She is also currently acting as tribunal secretary in two SIAC arbitrations before tribunals chaired by Mr. Thomas QC and by former Attorney-General VK Rajah SC. Emily is a member of the CIArb Sub-Committee on Witness Conferencing in International Arbitration.
I have served as Singapore's representative to the Incoterms Committee and to the ICC Arbitration Council for 2 terms and is very well versed in international trading activities and issues. I have successfully mediated a whole range of trade and investment disputes between members of the Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry and also from the international community. I am a Court Appointed Volunteer Mediator with the State Courts of Singapore.
