Sidley Partner Ing Loong Yang Relocates to Hong Kong

HONG KONG--( BUSINESS WIRE )--International law firm Sidley Austin LLP has announced that Ing Loong Yang , an international arbitration partner based in Singapore, is relocating to the firm’s Hong Kong office. He will continue to serve as a Global Coordinator of the firm’s international arbitration practice. The practice is based in the firm’s Washington, D.C., London, Brussels, Geneva, Hong Kong and Singapore offices.

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Thomas W. Albrecht , the firm’s Managing Partner for the Asia Pacific region, said, “Ing Loong has built a top-tier reputation as a key player in international arbitration matters. His wealth of talent and experience will be extremely beneficial as we continue to build our Greater China practice and serve a variety of clients throughout the Asia Pacific region.”

Mr. Yang regularly acts as Counsel in international arbitrations and cross-border litigation, particularly on matters in the Greater China region, as well as Southeast Asia. He regularly acts for corporate clients in international arbitrations and complex commercial litigation, ranging from shareholders’ disputes, investment disputes, joint venture disputes and technology licensing disputes, FCPA investigations and advises clients on compliance and regulatory issues, especially in the life sciences industry. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators and an accredited mediator. He also serves on the panels of all the major arbitration institutions in Asia, such as the Singapore International Arbitration Center, the China International Economic & Trade Arbitration Commission, the Hong Kong International Arbitration Center and the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration. He has also sat as arbitrator in arbitrations conducted under CIETAC Rules, HKIAC Administered Arbitration Rules and SIAC Rules.

Mr. Yang’s admissions in England and Wales, New York, Singapore and Hong Kong enable him to advise clients on their international and multi-jurisdictional disputes. He is fluent in English and is a native speaker of Mandarin and several other Chinese dialects, including Cantonese, Chiu Chow and Fujianese. He also has a good working knowledge of Bahasa Malaysia and Bahasa Indonesia.

“Given that my practice focuses on arbitrations with a Greater China element, it makes for better client service for me to relocate to Hong Kong so as to be closer and more accessible to our China-based and North Asian clients. Major PRC companies are now actively engaged in M&A and other commercial activities overseas and these generate potential arbitration work for the major arbitration centers in Asia, including Hong Kong and Singapore,” said Mr. Yang. “As a Hong Kong solicitor, I will be able to advise clients in spin-off litigations from Hong Kong-based arbitrations, enforcement of arbitral awards in Hong Kong and commercial litigation generally. At the same time, I will continue to work with and oversee the dispute resolution team in Singapore, and will therefore continue to service clients that have arbitrations in Singapore. Recently, I was with the SIAC in Mainland China meeting with Chinese companies and law firms.”

Sidley has had a presence in the Asia Pacific region for nearly 30 years, having opened its first office in the region in Singapore in 1982 and its Hong Kong office in 1994. Sidley’s International Arbitration team is a leader in assisting clients with complex, cross-border dispute resolution. The firm’s commercial arbitration lawyers represent clients in connection with all types of commercial disputes before a wide variety of international arbitral forums around the globe. A key aspect of Sidley’s practice involves the representation of clients in high-stakes investment treaty disputes before a wide array of international tribunals. In the area of investment treaty arbitration, Sidley has one of the largest dockets of high-profile investor-state cases. Sidley is consistently ranked as among the top practices in international arbitration by the leading legal directories, and Sidley won the 2010 gold award for “best U.S. law firm for international arbitration” from the International Legal Alliance.

Sidley Austin LLP is one of the world’s premier full-service law firms, with more than 1600 lawyers practicing in 17 U.S. and international cities, including Beijing, Brussels, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hong Kong, London, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo. Sidley is recognized for service and responsiveness. Sidley received the most first-tier national rankings of any U.S. law firm in the inaugural U.S.News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” rankings for 2010. BTI, a Boston-based research and consulting firm, has named Sidley as one of only three firms to have been in the top ten of the BTI Client Service rankings every year since the inception of those rankings in 2001, and as number one in three of those years.

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