Singapore’s Essex Court Chambers Duxton has added yet another heavy-hitter to its stable in the form of Chan Leng Sun SC, Baker McKenzie’s global head of arbitration.
A senior counsel of the Supreme Court of Singapore, Chan is deputy chairman of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, deputy chairman of the Singapore Exchange (SGX) Appeals Committee, as well as a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR. He was, until quite recently, president of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (SIArb)
Chan joins VK Rajah SC, a former attorney general of Singapore, and Toby Landau QC, the first Queen’s Counsel to be admitted to the Singapore bar, at Essex Court Chambers Duxton. The other lawyers at the chambers are Colin Liew, Tham Lijing and Calvin Liang.
Chan’s practice includes covering technical disputes, maritime law, international trade, insurance and company law. He has acted as counsel or arbitrator in arbitrations within jurisdictions in Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Korea, Malaysia, the UK and the U.S.
Chan joined Baker & McKenzie.Wong & Leow as a principal in that firm’s dispute resolution practice in 2011 from local maritime firm Ang & Partners, where he became an equity partner in 2004. He started his career in Kuala Lumpur with legacy Malaysian firm Mah-Kok & Din, which is now Raja, Darryl & Lo in 1988. Chan joined Ang & Partners in 1993 and was appointed as a senior counsel in Singapore in January 2011, shortly before his move to Bakers.
Essex Court Chambers Duxton was set up in Singapore last year. It initially ran into a spot of trouble with the city state’s Ministry of Law (MinLaw) over reports that it was connected to London-based English barristers’ chambers, Essex Court Chambers. That was resolved after Essex Court Chambers Duxton wrote to MinLaw to “explain that media reports suggesting that the Singapore group practice was set up by Essex Court Chambers were mistaken, and that any communications that may have contributed to this were inadvertent.”
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