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Mr Hock Keng Chan

+65 6416 8139 hockkeng.chan@wongpartnership.com View profile

Work Department

Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group; Insurance Practice; International Arbitration Practice ; China Practice.

Position

Co-Head – Commercial & Corporate Disputes Practice;
Partner – International Arbitration Practice.

Career

Active in the Singapore Courts and in arbitrations. He appears as solicitor/counsel in court cases and domestic/international arbitrations relating to building & engineering contracts, joint venture and other forms of commercial disputes. He has also acted as an expert on Singapore law in a China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission arbitration in Beijing as well as Thailand’s Central Intellectual Property and International Trade Court.

Awards & Accolades

Hock Keng graduated top of his class from the University of Bristol with First Class Honours and was awarded the Sweet & Maxwell Law Prize. He was placed fifth in the UK Bar Exams the following year and was called to the Singapore Bar. He clerked for the Chief Justice for a year before entering private practice in 1995. Hock Keng is also admitted to the Roll of Solicitors of England & Wales.

Hock Keng is identified as a leading individual in Singapore for Arbitration work by Chambers Asia-Pacific – Asia-Pacific’s Leading Lawyers for Business since 2013. He has been described by Chambers as “a lawyer who brings valuable PRC expertise to the team, and is well versed in CIETAC and SIAC matters”. Hock Keng is also commended by clients as “a very creative lawyer” who offers “great ideas on how we can come up with a solution” and is “commercially minded and very quick to grasp whatever points opposing counsels make”.

Languages

English, Mandarin.

Memberships

Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; Panel of Arbitrators of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, the Asian International Arbitration Centre, the International Council for Commercial Arbitration, the Wuhan Arbitration Commission, the Hainan International Arbitration Court, the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, the Japan Commercial Arbitration Association, the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board, the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration, and the South China International Economic Trade Arbitration Commission; Member, Infrastructure Committee of the Singapore Business Federation; Income Tax Board of Review; Honorary Council Member, Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce & Industry.

Education

Admitted, 1994, Singapore Bar; 2000, Roll of Solicitors of England & Wales; University of Bristol (LL.B., Hons.); Middle Temple (Barrister-at-Law).