Mediating a $1B International Dispute

George Lim is Chairman of the Singapore International Mediation Centre. He is a Senior Counsel, and was President of the Law Society of Singapore between 1998-1999.

George is the co-editor of Mediation in Singapore: A Practical Guide. He was Singapore’s mediation consultant to UNCITRAL Working Group II, which led to the adoption of the Singapore Convention on Mediation.

In October 2019, he was appointed to the Roster of Panel Chairs of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) on Dispute Settlement.

In 2021, George was named by The International Who’s Who of Commercial Mediation as a global thought leader in mediation.

Sae Youn Kim is a senior member of Kim & Chang’s International Arbitration & Cross-Border Litigation team.

Previously, she served as a judge at various Korean district courts, and was a key member in major Korean law firms. Ms. Kim also sits as an arbitrator. Her expertise in international dispute resolution has been recognized by the variety of roles she holds and held in various institutions, including Commissioner of the Korea Trade Commission, a Vice-Chair of the Arbitration Committee of the International Bar Association, a Co-Chair of the Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Committee of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association, and a Court member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration.

She is regularly selected as a leading lawyer by publications such as Chambers Global, Who’s Who Legal, Legal 500, and Asialaw.

Gregory M. Williams’ practice focuses on complex commercial litigation and arbitration. His serves as lead counsel in high-stakes litigation and arbitration disputes cutting across multiple industries and regions. His matters are frequently multifaceted, with parallel or related proceedings in multiple fora.

Mr. Williams has received a number of recognitions and served on Law360’s International Arbitration Editorial Advisory Board. He earned his J.D. from the University of Virginia, where he was a Law Review editor. He also received an M.A., with distinction, from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He served as a law clerk for the Honorable Jacques Wiener of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Shen Yi practices exclusively in dispute resolution, primarily as counsel, and occasionally as arbitrator. He was appointed Senior Counsel in 2008 at 40 and elected a Master Bencher of The Middle Temple in 2016. He served as the President of the Law Society, and as Vice-President of the Senate of the Singapore Academy of Law from 2015-2016.

Shen Yi has been consistently recognised in leading law journals, such as Chambers Global, Asialaw Profiles, Legal500 Asia Pacific. He was identified as a Leading Individual (Dispute Resolution) in the Legal500 Asia Pacific 2020 as well as Elite Practitioner (Dispute Resolution) in the Asialaw Leading Lawyers 2020. He was also named Lawyer of the Year in the Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific Awards 2020.