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About
Provided by Shen Yi Thio SC
Practice Areas
Commercial & Corporate Litigation
International Arbitration
Competition/Antitrust
Restructuring & Insolvency
Construction & Engineering
Career
A founding partner of TSMP and an influential figure in the legal community, Shen Yi read law at Cambridge, subsequently topping the English Bar Examinations, and was called to the Singapore bar in 1993. Since then, he has practiced exclusively in dispute resolution, primarily as counsel, and occasionally as arbitrator, over a wide spectrum of corporate, financial, infrastructure, trusts and insolvency law. He was appointed Senior Counsel in 2008 at age 40. He was elected a Master Bencher of The Middle Temple in 2016.
Shen Yi is fully committed to the wider issue of the role of the legal community in Singapore’s social and economic system. 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. A firm believer that pro bono legal work is a debt that every lawyer owes, he also currently serves on the board of the Law Society Pro Bono Services Limited, a registered charity.
Professional Memberships
Barrister at Law (Middle Temple) in England, July 1992
Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators, 2006
Fellow of the Singapore Academy of Law, 2008
Chambers Review
Asia-Pacific
Thio Shen Yi SC is a key driving force at TSMP Law Corporation in Singapore and regularly advises both high net worth individuals and large corporates.
Thio Shen Yi SC is a respected figure in Singapore's legal market, active for a range of parties including creditors and debtors.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Heis commercial in his outlook and is keenly aware of meeting the clients' commercial objectives."
"Shen Yi is a strong smooth operator and has very, very strong advocacy skills."
"He knows our business and objectives. He is very attentive and drives the legal and business outcomes that we need."
"He is pragmatic and dogged."
"Heis commercial in his outlook and is keenly aware of meeting the clients' commercial objectives."
"Shen Yi is a strong smooth operator and has very, very strong advocacy skills."
"He knows our business and objectives. He is very attentive and drives the legal and business outcomes that we need."
"He is pragmatic and dogged."
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