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Ms Grace Morgan

Work Department

Dispute Resolution

Position

Director, Dispute Resolution

Career

Grace has an active practice in litigation and arbitration with a particular focus on complex, high-value, and cross-border disputes. She is experienced in employment matters, shareholder’s disputes, joint venture disputes, tortious matters, white-collar criminal matters, complex contractual disputes, fraud investigations, and arbitration-related court proceedings. She is experienced in handling matters involving foreign law issues.

She advises prominent ultra-high net worth and high net worth individuals, companies listed on the Singapore stock exchange and multinational corporations.

Grace regularly argues contentious matters as lead counsel and has appeared in all levels of the Singapore Courts, including the General Division of the High Court, the Singapore International Commercial Court and Court of Appeal.

Apart from litigation matters, Grace has an active arbitration practice. The matters she has handled involve damages of significant value or span multiple jurisdictions.

Grace graduated from the Singapore Management University (SMU) as a Max Lewis Scholar. During her time at SMU, she was Champion of the Attorney-General Chamber’s Law Reform Essay Competition a total of three times. This competition challenged participants to review and reform the existing law in specified areas.

Grace also participated in various mooting competitions as an oralist. She was Champion of the Rodyk Moot Challenge 2014. She also represented SMU as an oralist in the Monroe E Price Moot Court Competition 2014 held at Oxford University, where her team emerged quarterfinalists in an international field.

Grace actively volunteers with the Law Society of Singapore. She is Co-Chairperson of the Young Lawyers Committee, where she advocates for young lawyers and trainees and seeks to address the practice-related issues they face.

She was also a founding member of the Women In Practice Committee which focuses on matters concerning women lawyers.

Grace is an active volunteer with the Law Society Pro Bono Services Office Criminal Legal Aid Scheme and is on the Supreme Court’s Register of Assigned Counsel Legal Assistance Scheme for Capital Offences.

She speaks English and Mandarin fluently and frequently advises clients based in the People’s Republic of China.

Languages

English
Chinese

Memberships

• Member, Law Society of Singapore
• Member, Singapore Academy of Law
• Co-Chairperson, Young Lawyers Committee, Law Society of Singapore
• Committee Member, Women In Practice, Law Society of Singapore
• Committee Member, Chairpersons Court Practice Committee, Law Society of Singapore
• Publications Consultative Panel Member of Infocomm Media Development Authority
• Junior Assisting Counsel, Register of Assigned Counsel Legal Assistance Scheme for Capital Offences, Supreme Court
• Volunteer, Criminal Legal Aid Scheme, Law Society Pro Bono Services

Education

• LL.B., Singapore Management University (2014), Max Lewis Scholarship
• Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore (2015)
• Certificate for Bioethics: The Law, Medicine, and Ethics of Reproductive Technologies and Genetics, HarvardX (2020)