Profile and Expertise

Edward is one of only a few Singaporean lawyers who are effectively bilingual in both English and Japanese. He focuses on international arbitration, but also handles cross-border litigation and dispute resolution and provides general corporate legal advice to Japanese clients.

Edward has experience in litigation before the Singapore High Court, and in arbitration before the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). Besides those governed by the laws of Singapore, he also has experience handling issues governed by the laws of Japan, Indonesia and Bangladesh. In particular, Edward’s arbitration experience includes infrastructure and project-related disputes.

Before attending law school at the Singapore Management University (SMU), Edward spent a stint studying the politics of Japan at Waseda University in Tokyo, where he was selected as the cohort valedictorian. He then graduated from the SMU with a Doctor of Jurisprudence (JD, Magna Cum Laude), and was then called to the Singapore Bar in May 2023.

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• [Commercial arbitration]
  - Obtained award for Japanese electric generator supplier in ICC expedited procedure arbitration governed by Japanese law.
  - Obtained favourable settlement for Tokyo-listed advertising agency in SIAC arbitration against Hong Kong-listed game developer.
  - Successfully resisted application for consolidation of SIAC arbitrations arising out of public engineering project.
  
  [Civil litigation]
  - Successfully defended client against application for committal for contempt of Court in ILC Co Ltd v Saitama Hiroshi and others [2023] SGHC 280
  - Successfully discharged freezing order for over JPY 17 billion in HC/S 716/2021.
  
  [General corporate]
  - Retained by global SAAS provider for corporate legal advice.
  - Legal support for Japanese companies setting up business and subsidiaries.
  
  

• One Asia Lawyers Group, Q&A: Regulation and Practice of Personal Data Protection in Asia and Oceania (Chuo-Keizai, 2022)