WongPartnership LLP

Alvin Yeo, Senior Counsel, is the senior partner of WongPartnership. His main areas of practice are banking and corporate disputes, insolvency and restructuring, and construction and civil engineering matters. Alvin has extensive experience as counsel in arbitration proceedings both in Singapore and in the region, and sits on occasion as arbitrator.

Alvin graduated from King’s College London, University of London, and was admitted to the English Bar (Gray’s Inn) in 1987 and the Singapore Bar in 1988. In January 2000, Alvin became the youngest lawyer to be appointed Senior Counsel.

He is a vice-chair of the IBA Arbitration Committee, a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration, the Court of the LCIA, the Singapore International Arbitration Centre’s Council of Advisors, a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators and on the panel of arbitrators of the International Centre for Dispute Resolution, the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board and the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration. Alvin has served on various public committees which undertook comprehensive reviews of the legal services sector. He is a member of the Appeals Advisory Panel of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). Alvin also serves on the boards of various public companies in Singapore, and is an elected Member of Parliament.

Alvin is recognised as a leading litigation and arbitration lawyer in international legal directories such as The Legal 500: Asia Pacific; IFLR 1000; Chambers Global; Chambers Asia; PLC Which Lawyer - Dispute Resolution (Litigation & Regional Arbitration), Best Lawyers International; Guide to the World’s Leading Litigation Lawyers; Guide to the World’s Experts in Commercial Arbitration and The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers.