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Foo Yuet Min

Foo Yuet Min

Work Department

Dispute Resolution

Position

Director, Dispute Resolution

Career

Yuet Min graduated with First Class Honours from the National University of Singapore in 2006. Yuet Min was one of four NUS law school undergraduates who represented the University at the 2006 Phillip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in Washington D.C.  Prior to joining Drew & Napier in 2008, Yuet Min was a Justices’ Law Clerk at the Supreme Court of Singapore. She was also appointed to the Supreme Court’s Young Amicus Curiae Scheme in 2010 and 2011.

Yuet Min advises clients mainly on civil disputes relating to a wide range of commercial contracts, with the aim of achieving commercially-viable solutions for clients. She has been described by clients as “very skilled”, “an excellent lawyer who is on point, effective and innovative” with “great judgement and a strong focus on the client’s objectives”.

Yuet Min regularly appears before the Singapore Courts as lead counsel. She has successfully handled complex and high-value matters ranging from offshore drilling contracts and construction matters including powerplant disputes, to disputes relating to commercial rights to major sports events and banking and finance disputes, among others. Besides maintaining an active court litigation practice, many of Yuet Min’s matters involve SIAC and ICC arbitrations as well as arbitration-related Court proceedings. She has particular experience and interest in dealing with multi-lingual proceedings and has conducted a bilingual international arbitration under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules.

She has been appointed arbitrator in a number of SIAC, ICC, and ad hoc international arbitrations. She has also conducted SIAC arbitrations under the expedited procedure.

Yuet Min is a recognised Dispute Resolution and International Arbitration practitioner, recommended by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific for two consecutive years in 2024 and 2025, recognised as a Recommended Lawyer in International Arbitration for four years, and listed in The Legal 500 Arbitration Powerlist: Southeast Asia for two consecutive years, 2023 and 2024.

She was also identified as one of the top 50 disputes lawyers in Asian Legal Business (ALB) Asia Super 50 Disputes Lawyers 2022. Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal), has named her a Recommended Lawyer for both Commercial Litigation and Arbitration, as a Global Elite Thought Leader – Under 45 for Arbitration. She was awarded Young Lawyer of the Year at the ALB South East Asia Law Awards in 2021.

Yuet Min is co-author of the Chambers and Partners Global Practice Guides – Litigation 2022, 2024 & 2025 (Singapore chapter).

Brought up in a multi-lingual environment, Yuet Min speaks English, Mandarin, Malay, and the Hokkien dialect.

Practice areas

Administrative & Public Law Arbitration Commercial Litigation Competition Law & Regulatory Practice Corporate Litigation Financial Services Regulation Hotels & Leisure International Arbitration Investigations Public International Law SICC Expertise Sports

Languages

English

Memberships

Director, BABSEACLE Director, T.H.E. Dance Company Ltd Board of Advisors, Delos Dispute Resolution (since December 2024) Co-chair, Engagement Sub-committee and Core Committee member of the ICC Singapore Arbitration Group (January 2023 to December 2024) Member of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Board of Review (2020 to December 2025) Member of the Accreditation Committee (Accreditation Panel) under SILE’s CPD Scheme (since September 2020) Member of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Board of Review (2020 to December 2025) Member of the Home Detention Advisory Committee 4 (HDAC4) (since late 2018) Steering Committee Member, Young MCIA (Mumbai Centre for International Arbitration) (2019 to 2021) Member of the Law Society Inquiry Panel (since December 2017) Committee Member, YSIAC (2014 to 2018) Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Member of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University (instructor for a course on International Arbitration Practice) Member, Singapore Academy of Law Member, Law Society of Singapore Member, Public and International Law Committee of the Law Society of Singapore (2011/2012) Honorary Treasurer, Society of International Law, Singapore (2007 to 2015)

Education

LL.B (Hons), National University of Singapore (2006) Admitted to the Singapore Bar (2008)

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