Mr Kenny Yap > Allen & Gledhill LLP > Singapore, Singapore > Lawyer Profile
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Mr Kenny Yap
Work Department
International Arbitration; Litigation; Maritime & Aviation
Position
Co-Head of the Firm’s Maritime & Aviation Practice and Co-Head of the Shipping (Contentious) team
Career
Kenny co-Heads the Firm’s Maritime & Aviation Practice and the Shipping (Contentious) team. His main areas of practice are international trade and shipping.
Kenny has acted on various litigation and arbitration disputes, including trade and commodities disputes, customs and letters of credit disputes, mortgage enforcement, charterparty disputes, shipbuilding and repair disputes, ship sale and purchase disputes, cargo claims, bunker claims, maritime fraud claims, shipping casualty matters, insurance and insolvency.
Kenny’s experience also encompasses advising on various trade and shipping matters including trade licensing and regulatory compliance, customs issues, import and export, UN sanctions, export control, transfer of strategic goods and technologies, storage and warehousing.
In 2019, Kenny was among the inaugural batch of select practitioners to be recognised as a Senior Accredited Specialist in Maritime and Shipping Law by the Singapore Academy of Law.
Languages
Written: English, Malay. Spoken: English, Malay, Mandarin.
Memberships
Kenny is a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (SIArb), and is a member of the Legal & Insurance Committee, Singapore Shipping Association (SSA) and the Maritime Law Association of Singapore (MLAS).
He is on the panel of arbitrators for the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration (SCMA), SIArb and the Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC).
Kenny is also an associate mediator with the Singapore Mediation Centre (SMC), and is on the panel of mediators for the AIAC.
Education
Graduated from the University of Cambridge, Trinity College with an B.A. (Hons) degree, an M.A., and an LL.M.
Lawyer Rankings
Singapore > Shipping: local firms
The maritime team at Allen & Gledhill LLP provides a full service which covers advising on the remit of shipping and offshore in both contentious and non-contentious contexts. The firm advises a variety of local and international insurance companies, P&I Clubs, and major financial institutions. In regards to its financing, the team frequently assists in shipping and shipyard transactions and insurance-related matters. The team has also seen a recent uptick in restructuring and insolvency work. Co-heads are ‘leader in the field’ Kenny Yap, who has expertise in international trade and shipping; Yin Soon Yap, who has marked knowledge in maritime, offshore and aviation disputes; and Yin Chuin Soh who focuses on transactions. Vivian Ang and Corina Song also both particularly renowned for their work on contentious cases. Consultant Gina Lee-Wan is also noted for her shipping expertise.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
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- Banking and finance: local firms
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- Capital markets: structured finance, derivatives and securitisation: Local firms
- Construction: Local firms
- Corporate and M&A: local firms
- Data protection and cyber security
- Dispute resolution: local firms
- Fintech and financial services regulatory: local firms
- Intellectual property: Local firms
- Investment funds: local firms
- Labour and employment: local firms
- Projects and energy: local firms
- Real estate: local firms
- Restructuring and insolvency: local firms
- Shipping: local firms
- Start-up and venture capital – Local firms
- Tax: local firms
- TMT: local firms
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