Shook Lin & Bok LLP

International Arbitration; Litigation & Dispute Resolution; Restructuring & Insolvency

Sarjit Singh Gill, S.C. has more than 40 years of experience in litigation and international arbitration. He has a special focus on corporate and commercial disputes, and in particular banking and finance disputes; international trade disputes, and fraud. He has also been involved in numerous significant restructuring and insolvency matters, both domestic and cross-border. Sarjit frequently acts for banks, financial institutions, major international and domestic corporations, and insolvency practitioners (liquidators, judicial managers, and administrators).

Sarjit has an active international arbitration practice, both as arbitrator and counsel. He has represented clients in a significant number of complex arbitrations, both in Singapore and abroad. Sarjit also heads the firm’s India Desk and frequently acts for Indian clients in both litigation and arbitration matters.

Sarjit is a director of Seatrium Limited, and concurrently a member of its Audit and Risk Committee. He served on the board of the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore, and the Central Provident Fund from 2012 to 2018, and was a non-executive director of Heliconia Capital Management Pte Ltd from 2021 to 2025. He is a member of the Life Imprisonment Review Board, The President's Pleasure Review Board, Long Imprisonment Review Board and MAS Appeal Advisory Panel. He has also been appointed to serve as a member of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) Panel of Arbitrators and has served as a member of the Singapore International Mediation Centre Specialist Mediator Panel (Singapore) from 2020 to 2022.

English, Malay, Hindi, Punjabi

Senior Counsel, Supreme Court of Singapore (since 1998) Solicitor, England & Wales, 2003 Advocate & Solicitor, Singapore, 1977 LLB (Hons), University of Singapore, 1976