International Arbitration Lawyers

Disputes across borders can feel overwhelming with different laws, competing jurisdictions, and high financial stakes. At Rajah & Tann Singapore, we recognise the pressures this creates for your business. Our award-winning international arbitration team is here to combine global expertise with a client-first approach, ensuring you have the right strategy, the right team, and the right outcome when it matters most.

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Depth and Breadth of Experience in International Arbitration

Every dispute is different. But whatever your challenge, chances are we’ve helped a client through something similar. Our team has decades of experience across industries and geographies and we bring that knowledge to bear in shaping a strategy built around your priorities.

We’ve represented clients in matters ranging from billion-dollar infrastructure projects to high-stakes joint venture disputes and energy investments across multiple jurisdictions. What this means for you is straightforward: a team that understands your industry, anticipates risks, and knows how to achieve enforceable outcomes.

That’s why clients around the world choose our International Arbitration team, consistently ranked among the best in Singapore. Our role is simple: to help you navigate complexity with confidence, resolve disputes efficiently, and keep your business moving forward.

Industries Where We Protect Clients’ Interests

Thanks to the diversity of the clients we work with, we have developed in-depth knowledge across a wide range of industries and routinely handle disputes involving complex, multi-layered legal and factual issues. Our team often works closely with industry experts and specialists in state-of-the-art technology to deliver commercially sound outcomes.

We have acted in disputes across the following sectors:

Construction and Real Estate: Including residential, industrial, mixed-use and commercial building projects, as well as land reclamation works and billion-dollar port developments.
Corporate and Commercial: Covering cross-border joint ventures, shareholder disputes, banking, finance, insurance, regulatory, distributorship and employment matters.
Energy and Resources: Involving power stations, power purchase and connection agreements, and major infrastructure such as power plants in China, coal mines in Indonesia, and oil fields in Africa.
Infrastructure and Civil Engineering: Including airports, railways, ports, highways, suspension bridges, tunnels and sewerage systems, as well as large-scale projects like steel plants in the Philippines and power infrastructure in Malaysia.
Maritime and Shipbuilding: Including disputes over drill ships and oil rigs in Singapore, and shipbuilding contracts.
Oil and Gas: Covering both upstream and downstream operations, including projects across Africa and Southeast Asia.
Telecommunications: Involving submarine cables connecting China to the United States, base transmission systems in Indonesia, and broader telecommunications infrastructure and sales.
Hospitality and Franchising: Including long-term hotel management contracts in Indonesia, hospitality resort projects in India, Pan-Asian vehicular franchises, and car distribution agreements in Singapore.
Mining and Natural Resources: Covering water, oil, coal and other mineral concessions.

Your Dedicated Multilingual Team in Cross-Border Arbitration

Arbitration can be daunting involving multiple jurisdictions, foreign law elements, and procedural hurdles. We help you cut through the noise. With a dedicated core team of arbitration specialists, supported by foreign-qualified and dual-qualified lawyers, we’re uniquely positioned to manage high-stakes disputes wherever they arise.

We draw on our strong regional network and global contacts to assemble the most effective legal teams.

Key strengths include:

Extensive experience in cross-border arbitrations involving a wide range of regional laws
Regular involvement in complex shipping and admiralty disputes
Dedicated and sizeable core team of arbitration specialists within the firm
Capability to conduct Chinese-language arbitrations
Support from foreign-qualified and dual-qualified lawyers
Frequent handling of disputes with foreign law elements and international arbitration venues
Strong collaboration with the firm’s regional offices and global network to deliver tailored legal teams and strategies
Focus on securing enforceable outcomes while mitigating risks of award challenges

Engagement with Leading Arbitration Institutions

Members of the team have been retained as arbitrators, advisors and / or counsel on arbitrations conducted under the auspices of the world’s leading arbitration institutions, including:

The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA)
The International Court of Arbitration of the ICC
The London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA)
The American Arbitration Association (AAA)
The Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC)
The Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC)
The China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC)
The Asian International Arbitration Centre (formerly known as The Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration) (AIAC)
The Thai Arbitration Institute (TAI)
The Society of Maritime Arbitrators (SMA)

Our International Arbitration Services

Engagement with Leading Arbitration Institutions

We provide full-service support across the entire arbitration lifecycle:

Drafting & Negotiating International Arbitration Agreements
Tribunal Formation & Arbitrator Appointment
Representation in International Arbitration Proceedings
Interim Measures & Relief
Enforcement of Arbitral Awards
Challenge & Setting Aside of Arbitral Awards
Arbitration Rule & Procedure Advisory (SIAC, ICC, and UNCITRAL)
Cross-Border Dispute Resolution
Advisory on Jurisdictional & Legal Issues in Arbitration
Pre-Arbitration Settlement & Negotiation

Our goal is always the same: to deliver an efficient process and a result that protects your business.

Selected International Arbitration Highlights

US$3.8 billion Singapore-seated treaty arbitration under the UNCITRAL Rules relating to Vedanta’s claims against the Republic of India under the United Kingdom-India Bilateral Investment Treaty

Rajah & Tann Singapore Wins Landmark Case: DDI v DDJ [2024] SGHC 68

Successfully assisted individual and related Singapore-based and Myanmar-based entities, all of whom are involved in the trading of hydrocarbon products, in negotiating a highly complex global settlement involving 17 parties and across 11 disputes

Let’s Talk About Your Next Step

If you’re facing a dispute or want to plan ahead, speak with us early. Having the right strategy from the outset can make all the difference.

Contact our International Arbitration team and let us help you protect what matters most.

Recognition

World's Top 100 International Arbitration Practice

Global Arbitration Review (GAR100) since 2009
Band 1 - Dispute Resolution: Litigation

Chambers Asia-Pacific (2025)
Tier 1 - Dispute Resolution

The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific (2025)
Band 2 - Dispute Resolution: Arbitration (Elite)

Chambers Asia-Pacific (2025)
Tier 2 - International Arbitration

The Legal 500 Asia Pacific (2025)
Tier 2 - International Arbitration

The Legal 500 Asia Pacific (2024)
Ranked - Dispute Resolution (International Firms) - Desk Abroad

Chambers Asia-Pacific (2025)
Ranked - Regional International Arbitration

The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific (2025)
Ranked - Asia Pacific Region - Arbitration (International)

Chambers Asia-Pacific (2025)
Ranked - Asia Pacific: Regional International Arbitration: Leading Firms

The Legal 500 Asia Pacific (2024)
Spotlight Table - Dispute Resolution: Arbitration (Foreign Expertise) (India)

Chambers Global (2024)
''The team is full of highly qualified lawyers with experience and commercial nous. They consistently deliver high level results with excellent service."

The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific (2025)
"Their strong teamwork, ability to form a strong bond with the clients and understand their needs, enabled them to guide the clients seamlessly through the litigation process.''The team is responsive to our needs and provides advice that is both commercial and detailed."

The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific (2025)
"This department is well rounded and has sound knowledge of the industry."

Chambers Asia-Pacific (2025)
"They have a proactive approach using an updated knowledge of law and deep analysis to find a solutions."

Chambers Asia-Pacific (2025)
"Rajah & Tann has highly competent lawyers who have delivered results in a complex matter in an extremely short timeframe."

Chambers Asia-Pacific (2024)
"Rajah & Tann is a leading firm in South East Asia. Its large arbitration practice is well established and highly regarded."

The Legal 500 Asia Pacific (2024)
"We have worked together with Rajah & Tann on a couple of disputes cases over the last 12 months. I would describe the team as flexible, open minded, diligent, and well-suited to working together in a colloborative capacity."

The Legal 500 Asia Pacific (2024)
"The team invest time to get themselves aware of the root cause and perform analysis to suggest next steps. They also take proactive steps to involve experts on a timely basis."

Chambers Asia-Pacific (2024)
"The lawyers involved make themselves available and think out of the box, looking for solutions when the need arises."

The Legal 500 Asia Pacific (2024)
"The Team is strategic, highly responsive and understands the commercial and legal issues. Overall one of the very best practices in Singapore."

The Legal 500 Asia Pacific (2023)
“Rajah & Tann has insight into commercial aspects and can dissect the problem and come up with a clear, consistent and workable strategy.”

Chambers Asia-Pacific (2023)
“They are adept in terms of how the industry operates and are very focused on delivering results – even if it calls for unconventional strategies.”

Chambers Asia-Pacific (2023)
"We were very impressed with both the legal advice provided as well as the way the team interacted with us. They were proactive and professional and very personable at the same time. The preparation of our witnesses in the arbitration hearings were detailed and done in a very diligent manner. We would highly recommend working with this practice again."

The Legal 500 Asia Pacific (2022)

Their strong teamwork, ability to form a strong bond with the clients and understand their needs, enabled them to guide the clients seamlessly through the litigation process.''The team is responsive to our needs and provides advice that is both commercial and detailed."

The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2025