Debate On The Motion:

Kate Apostolova - Senior Associate, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Kate is a senior associate based in Freshfields’ Singapore office and has experience in both international commercial and investor-State arbitrations. Recognized as one of the most highly regarded international arbitration practitioners in Asia, Kate has extensive experience representing clients in a wide-range of industries, including oil & gas, mining, nuclear power, construction, finance, technology. Kate is also on the committee of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre’s young practitioners group.
Kate previously worked as an associate at Cleary Gottlieb in New York City. Prior to that, she was a law clerk to the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and a research assistant to the late Professor David D. Caron. Kate has a juris doctorate degree from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, where she was editor-in-chief of the Berkeley Journal of International Law. She is admitted to practice in New York, before the Supreme Court of the United States and the Singapore International Commercial Court.

Wendy Lin - Partner, Wong Partnership

Wendy Lin is a Partner in the International Arbitration and Commercial & Corporate Disputes Practices at WongPartnership LLP. She is also presently the Co-Chair of the YSIAC Committee. Wendy has an active practice in a wide-array of high-value, multi-jurisdictional, and complex disputes, both before the Singapore Courts as well as in arbitrations conducted under various arbitral rules (including the SIAC, ICC, HKIAC, LCIA, UNCITRAL and ICSID rules). Amongst her many accolades, Wendy was selected as one of the four most highly-regarded litigation partners in Asia-Pacific under the age of 45 in the inaugural publication of Who’s Who Legal: Litigation – Future Leaders 2018. She has also been recommended for both her dispute resolution and arbitration work by The Legal 500: Asia Pacific.

Shilppa Sabarinathann - Senior Accountant, Matson Driscoll & Damico

Richard Hayler - Partner, Deloitte

Richard is Deloitte’s lead partner for disputes and arbitration in Southeast Asia. A fellow of multiple societies, he is internationally recognized as a leading accounting, finance and valuations expert. Richard has previously lectured at Singapore Management University as Adjunct Faculty and currently helps set global valuation standards as a member of the Standards Review Board of the International Valuation Standards Council. Richard was formerly the treasurer of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Singapore Branch, a position he held for almost seven years. Richard is an ICAEW and ISCA Chartered Accountant and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst.

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