The Singapore International Arbitration Act: A Commentary

About Jonathan LimNelson GohPaul Tan

Nelson Goh is a partner at Pallas Partners LLP an elite dispute resolution firm with offices in London and New York. He holds an LL.B. from the National University of Singapore and LL.M.s from New York University and the University of Cambridge (First Class Hons) where he was a Cambridge Trust Scholar. Nelson has been involved in arbitrations administered by all leading institutions and ad hoc arbitration under the UNCITRAL Rules. He teaches investment arbitration at Queen Mary University of London and sits on Peer Review Board of the ICSID Review and Editorial Board of the European Investment Law and Arbitration Review. He has published extensively on international arbitration and public international law in leading academic journals and is admitted to practice in England & Wales (solicitor-advocate) and Singapore. Jonathan Lim is a partner at WilmerHale LLP with a focus on complex international disputes. He has represented companies and governments in over 25 'bet-the-company' commercial and investment treaty arbitration disputes in Africa Asia Europe and the Americas. He also regularly sits as arbitrator. He has advised international organizations and governments on public international law issues and assisted with the drafting of legislation including in Fiji Iraq Palau Papua New Guinea Somalia and Tonga. Among other appointments he is a visiting senior fellow at the National University of Singapore where he lectures on arbitration Co-Chair of the Asia-Pacific Forum for International Arbitration and a member of the International Court of the Arbitration Foundation of South Africa. Paul Tan is a partner of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP and heads the firm's arbitration practice for Asia. He is globally recognised by Chambers & Partners Legal 500 and Who's Who Legal as a lead advocate in international arbitrations (including treaty-based arbitrations) and arbitration-related litigation. He is a co-author of the forthcoming edition of Mustill & Boyd's treatise on international arbitration and co-authored Singapore Law: 50 Years in the Making. Paul also holds first class degrees from the National University of Singapore and the University of Oxford.