Kenny Yap

Practice Areas

International Arbitration; Litigation; Maritime & Aviation

Career

Kenny co-Heads the Firm’s Maritime & Aviation Practice and the Shipping (Contentious) team. His main areas of practice are international trade and shipping.

Kenny has acted on various litigation and arbitration disputes, including trade and commodities disputes, customs and letters of credit disputes, mortgage enforcement, charterparty disputes, shipbuilding and repair disputes, ship sale and purchase disputes, cargo claims, bunker claims, maritime fraud claims, shipping casualty matters, insurance and insolvency.

Kenny’s experience also encompasses advising on various trade and shipping matters including trade licensing and regulatory compliance, customs issues, import and export, UN sanctions, export control, transfer of strategic goods and technologies, storage and warehousing.

In 2019, Kenny was among the inaugural batch of select practitioners to be recognised as a Senior Accredited Specialist in Maritime and Shipping Law by the Singapore Academy of Law.

Professional Memberships

Kenny is a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (SIArb), and is a member of the Legal & Insurance Committee, Singapore Shipping Association (SSA) and the Maritime Law Association of Singapore (MLAS).

He is on the panel of arbitrators for the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration (SCMA), SIArb and the Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC).

Kenny is also an associate mediator with the Singapore Mediation Centre (SMC), and is on the panel of mediators for the AIAC.