Amanda Lees

Partner

Amanda leads KWM’s Dispute Resolution Team in South East Asia. Amanda enjoys getting stuck into knotty legal problems and learning all about her client’s businesses and industries. Based in Singapore since 2012, Amanda is at home in hawker markets as much as the arbitration centre at Maxwell Chambers. When not reading arbitration cases or drafting arbitration awards, Amanda loves travelling with her family across Asia and beyond.

Posts From This Author

Show Me The Money – Strategies For Enforcement

5 July 2021

By Amanda Lees

In our first Arbitration Award Enforcement Issues in Asia and Beyond session, litigation funder Omni Bridgeway provides some strategies at each stage of arbitration for maximising chances of recovery

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SIAC’s Dramatic New Case Statistics Clarified by Singapore Ministry of Law

28 June 2021

By Amanda Lees

The Singapore Ministry of Law has clarified SIAC's case statistics 2020 which drops it back into second place in the rankings behind the ICC

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Third Party Funding in Singapore Extended to Domestic Arbitration and International Commercial Court Cases

23 June 2021

By Amanda Lees

New rules for third party funding for domestic arbitration in Singapore extending to domestic arbitration, mediation and cases at the SICC

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SIAC Statistics: Looking behind the large increase in SIAC caseload

29 April 2021

By Amanda Lees

SIAC has released its impressive statistics for 2020 with new cases topping 1,000 for the first time. Here we outline some of the highlights

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Joinder of third parties – still not easy under all institutional rules

27 April 2021

By Amanda Lees

The decisions in CJD v CJE has sparked a lesson to be learnt on the consent requirement in joinder of third parties under institutional rules

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