Samuel LEONG

Samuel is a Deputy Registrar of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre.

With over a decade of specialist international arbitration experience, Samuel has acted as both arbitrator and arbitration counsel in international arbitrations. Prior to rejoining SIAC, he practised international arbitration in the Singapore office of a prominent global law firm.

Samuel has been recognised by Lexology Index (previously Who’s Who Legal) as a Global Elite Thought Leader and a “most highly regarded” Future Leader in Arbitration; by The Legal 500 in its International Arbitration Powerlist for Southeast Asia; and as a Thomson Reuters Stand-out Lawyer.

Described as “one of the leaders of the next generation”, he has been commended for his “impeccable knowledge of arbitration”, for having “deep knowledge of the practices and procedures of arbitral institutions” and as “a persuasive advocate, with a bold and creative writing style.”

Samuel graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Columbia University School of Law, New York (as a Fulbright and Harlan Fiske Stone scholar). Samuel is admitted to the Malaysian Bar, is fluent in Bahasa Melayu and conversant in Mandarin Chinese.