Joint Managing Director, Senior Accredited Specialist
(Maritime and Shipping Law), Singapore Academy of Law;
Partner and Chief Representative, Ince Beijing;
and Partner, Ince Hong Kong
Tel: +65 6505 3438
waiyue.loh@incisivelaw.com
Wai Yue is a litigator specialising in shipping, international trade and insurance disputes. Apart from having spent his early years of his career as a lawyer working on complex cases in the High Court and the Court of Appeal in Singapore, working with Singapore’s leading Senior Counsel specialising in shipping and international trade, Mr Steven Chong SC (now Justice of Appeal Steven Chong of the Court of Appeal), Wai Yue has extensive experience of arbitrations in Singapore, London and Hong Kong as well as litigation and mediation across multiple jurisdictions.
A significant part of his practice involves representing various international clients (including Chinese clients) in both ad hoc and institutional arbitrations. He is particularly familiar with arbitrations carried out under the SIAC Rules, LCIA Rules, LMAA Rules, and HKIAC Rules, as well as with enforcement issues that arise following such arbitration proceedings.
With almost 20 years of experience both in Singapore and internationally, Wai Yue’s expertise spreads across contracts and disputes in relation to the trading of oil, dry bulk cargoes (including coal and iron ore) and trade finance. He is also a leading lawyer on charterparties, bills of lading, contracts for port services, unsafe port and cargo claims, and ship building/sale and purchase disputes. His experience and reputation particularly in the Chinese Hull & Machinery and Marine Cargo insurance markets also makes him a port of call for insurers and insureds on issues of coverage and subrogated recoveries. As a member of the Ince’s Asia Casualty Team, Wai Yue also has considerable experience in the investigation and handling of maritime casualties and claims.
Wai Yue practised in Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai before moving to Beijing in 2012 to set up the Ince Beijing office where he has been Managing Partner for the last 7 years, and is responsible for all aspects of the firm’s practice in northern China. He is a regular speaker, both regionally and internationally, on topics relating to commercial disputes, maritime law, international trade, and risk & compliance.
In addition to being a Singapore lawyer with rights of audience and extensive experience before the Singapore Courts, Wai Yue is also qualified to practise Hong Kong and English law, making him one of the few triple – qualified lawyers in Asia with a deep knowledge of the various legal systems and clients’ commercial needs within the region.
Wai Yue is often ranked as a leading lawyer in various legal directories and is noted for being “commercial” and a “strategist who can come up with detailed solutions”, and has more recently been described as being “brilliant in the way he deal with complexities” and “an excellent lawyer with rich professionalism and experience’ who is ‘familiar not only with English law but also with Hong Kong, Singapore and mainland China’.
Wai Yue is on the Panel of the International Arbitrators of the Shanghai International Arbitration Center. Recently, he was appointed as member of the Procedure Committee of the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration (SCMA).
National University of Singapore
The Law Society of Singapore
Singapore Academy of Law
Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration (Member of the Procedure Committee)
The Law Society of England and Wales
The Law Society of Hong Kong
Panel of the International Arbitrators of the Shanghai International Arbitration Center
English
Mandarin
Cantonese
Hokkien
Bahasa Indonesia/Malay (Basic)