Mr Yeo Chuan Tat

School of Law

Tel: +65 6248 0265

Email: Y3R5ZW9Ac3Vzcy5lZHUuc2c=

2012
LL.M., Columbia University School of Law

2005
LL.B., National University of Singapore

2021 - Present
Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Singapore University of Social Sciences

2018
Adjunct Faculty, School of Law, Singapore Management University

2016 - 2021
Director, Ascendant Legal LLC (in a Formal Law Alliance with Norton Rose Fulbright (Asia) LLP)

2014 - 2021
Part B Course Facilitator, Singapore Institute of Legal Education

2014 - 2016
Partner, Oon & Bazul LLP

2012
Student Editor, Columbia Law School American Review of International Arbitration

2010 - 2011
Adjunct Tutor, Department of Strategy and Policy, National University of Singapore Business School

2008 - 2014
Associate, Norton Rose Fulbright (Asia) LLP

2006 - 2008
Associate, Chambers of Michael Hwang, S.C.

"Singapore" chapter in Carel J.H. van Lynden (Gen. Ed.), Enforcement of Judgments, Awards & Deeds in Commercial Matters (London: Thomson Reuters, 2013) (co-author: K C Lye)

"Institutional Overreach?", Global Arbitration Review, Vol. 8 Issue 1 (January 2013) (co-author: K C Lye)

"Neither Fish nor Fowl - Legal Status of the Emergency Arbitration under the SIAC 2010 Rules" [2011] 23 SAcLJ 93 (co-author: K C Lye)

Case note on Transocean Offshore International Ventures Ltd v Burgundy Global Exploration Corp [2010] 2 SLR 821 – Singapore Law Watch Commentary, Issue 1/Dec 2010 (co-author: K C Lye)

"Interim Measures in Aid of Foreign Arbitrations: Time for the Deus Ex Machina?" [2009] 21 SAcLJ 429 (co-author: K C Lye)

Chapter "Recognition and Enforcement of Arbitral Awards" in M. Pryles and M. Moser (Ed.), The Asian Leading Arbitrators' Guide to International Arbitration (Juris Publishing, 2007) (co-author: Michael Hwang S.C.)

(non-practising)

2015 - Present
Attorney and Counselor-at-law, State of New York

2009 - Present
Solicitor, Supreme Court of England & Wales

2006 - Present
Advocate and Solicitor, Supreme Court of Singapore

2022 - Present
Member, Professional Standards & Ethics Working Group of the Professional Affairs Committee, Singapore Academy of Law

2022 - Present
Member, Programmes Committee, SILE CPD Scheme

2018 - 2021
Member, Practising Certificate and Accountant’s Report Committee, Law Society of Singapore

2014 - 2017
Council Representative, CPD Committee, Law Society of Singapore

2014 - 2017
Council Representative, Social and Welfare Committee, Law Society of Singapore

2014 - 2017
Council Member, Law Society of Singapore

2013 - 2014
Member, Public and International Law Committee, Law Society of Singapore

2012 - 2013
Member, Publications Committee, Law Society of Singapore

Dispute Resolution
Private Law (including Private International Law)
Legal Theory
Legal Ethics

Mr Yeo Chuan Tat

Senior Lecturer, Law Programmes

Educational Qualifications

Academic and Professional Experience