Wendy Lin

Practice Areas

Wendy Lin is the Deputy Head of the Commercial & Corporate Disputes Practice, and a Partner in the International Arbitration Practice.

Wendy has an active practice spanning a wide array of high-value, multijurisdictional and complex commercial, fraud and asset recovery disputes before the Singapore Courts, as well as in arbitrations conducted under various arbitral rules. Wendy is widely recognised as one of the top enforcement / asset recovery practitioners in Singapore; she is one of two ranked Global Elite Thought Leaders (reserved for 5% of those ranked across the world by Who’s Who Legal) in Asset Recovery, and the sole fellow of the International Academy of Financial Crime Litigators, based in Singapore.

Professional Memberships

In addition to her busy practice as counsel, Wendy also sits as an arbitrator in cases administered by the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, the International Chamber of Commerce and the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre. Wendy is presently serving her third term as Co-Chair of the YSIAC Committee, and is a member of the Singapore Academy of Law's Law Reform Committee.

Publications

- Chambers Global Practice Guide - Litigation 2023 & 2024

- The Global Legal Post - The International Commercial Litigation and Cross Border Enforcement Comparative Guide Book Singapore 2023

- CDR - Essential Intelligence: Fraud, Asset Tracing & Recovery, 2023

- The Global Legal Post Law Over Borders Comparative Guides - Arbitration 2023

- The Legal 500 Country Comparative Guide Singapore: Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters, 2023

- ABLI-SAL Cryptoassets Series on Cryptoassets and Civil Procedure Law (Singapore edition), 2023

- Cryptoassets Are Property and Can Be the Subject of a Trust — But Can They Be Enforced Against? (CaseWatch, 2023)

- Fraud and Asset Recovery: Cryptoassets (LegisWatch, 2022)

- Singapore High Court Issues First Reported Decision in Dispute Arising from Circuit Breaker Measures (CaseWatch, 2021)

- Singapore Court of Appeal Partially Sets Aside Arbitral Awards and Provides Key Observations on Important Costs and Consequential Issues (CaseWatch, 2021)

- Indian Supreme Court Recognises Emergency Arbitration Under SIAC Rules (CaseWatch, 2021)

- Singapore Court of Appeal, in Landmark Decision, Modifies Scope of Law of Confidence to Provide Greater Protection for Confidential Information (CaseWatch, 2020)

- Contributing Editor of the Singapore "White Book" (Singapore Civil Procedure) as well as to the Annotated Acts for the International Arbitration Act (Chapter 143A) and Arbitration Act (Chapter 10)

- Enforcement of Arbitral Awards in Singapore - Pitfalls and Strategies, 2019

- SFO v ENRC (Part 2): Litigation Privilege in Internal Investigations Clarified (CaseWatch, 2018)

- Court of Appeal Gives Guidance on Bringing of Shareholder Oppression Action (CaseWatch, 2018)

- Brand New Possibilities - Opening Up Third-Party Funding for International Arbitration in Singapore (LegisWatch, 2017)

Work Highlights

Matters of significance which Wendy has been involved in includes advising/acting for the following:

- Three-related ICC arbitrations and related Singapore Court proceedings arising out of the sale and purchase of one of South East Asia's leading renewable energy companies based in Thailand involving claims of over US$1 billion. In the related court proceedings, Wendy achieved an unprecedented setting-aside of an award worth over US$525 million.

- Various heavily-contested Singapore Court proceedings concerning arbitral awards / claims valued in total at over US$1 billion, which arise from the misappropriation of gaming/casino investments in Laos, and which gave rise to numerous investment treaty arbitration issues decided for the first time before the Singapore Court.

- Successfully acting for J&F Investimentos S.A. ("J&F"), Brazil's largest private economic group, as well as its ultimate shareholders in a complex multi-party purported derivative action arising from the proposed issuance of bonds in the amount of US$500 million in Singapore by Eldorado Intl. Finance GmbH, one of J&F's subsidiaries. The parties to the dispute are also involved in various related proceedings including proceedings in Brazil and the United States of America, as well as an ongoing ICC arbitration.

- Successfully acting for the Korean co-licensor / owner of an extremely popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game in a complex ICC arbitration against its Chinese licensee / other co-licensor, which involves multiple parties, multiple contracts as well as multiple legal issues under Korean law, Chinese law and Singapore law.

- Successfully acting for a Cayman Islands hedge fund based in Hong Kong S.A.R. in an SIAC arbitration, obtaining the full return of a significant investment made in a blockchain and cryptocurrency business due to various false and misleading representations made as to the nature and financial viability of the business.

- The liquidator of one of the largest steel manufacturers in South East Asia in a dispute with Indian purchasers involving claims of over US$600 million governed by Philippine law, and achieving a rare setting-aside of the arbitral award of over US$100 million, which gave rise to novel and complex issues as to the implications of this setting-aside (decided for the first time by the Court of Appeal).