Swee Yen Koh, SC
Koh Swee Yen, Senior Counsel, is the Head of International Arbitration of Wong Partnership, a law firm headquartered in Singapore. Her practice has a particular focus on complex, high-value and multi-jurisdictional disputes involving asset recovery, commodities, energy, fraud, infrastructure, international trade, joint ventures, transport and technology. She has extensive experience acting for and against States and State-owned entities, multinational corporations and high net-worth individuals both before the Singapore Courts (including the Singapore International Commercial Court) as well as in international commercial and investment arbitrations. She is admitted to the Roll of Solicitors of England & Wales and also has rights of audience before the DIFC Courts.
Swee Yen is the Co-Chair of the IPBA Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Committee, and a former Vice-Chair of the IBA Arbitration Committee. She is also a member of the ICC Court. She has sat as an arbitrator in HKIAC, ICC, LCIA and SIAC administered arbitrations, and is on the Panel of Arbitrators of the AEIC, BICAM, BAC/BIAC, HKIAC, KCAB and SIAC. She is designated by Singapore to the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators.
She was listed in GAR’s exclusive 45 under 45 list, and is recognised as a Global Elite Thought Leader in Who’s Who Legal Arbitration 2024. Swee Yen was also awarded Litigation Lawyer of the Year at The Legal 500 Southeast Asia Awards 2023, and is described as "an absolute standout", "razor-sharp" in her advocacy and "brilliant, decisive and fearless".