From Mareva to Metaverse: Interim Injunctions in Cross-border Commercial Disputes

Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon
Chief Justice 
Supreme Court of Singapore

Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court on 6 November 2012.

Chief Justice Menon graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) from the National University of Singapore in 1986 and a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1991. He was admitted as an advocate and solicitor in Singapore in 1987, and as an attorney and counsellor-at-law in New York in 1992.

After he was called to the Bar in Singapore, he practised with major local and international law firms, primarily as an advocate, in the fields of commercial litigation and arbitration, construction law and insolvency law. From 2006 to 2007, he served as a Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court. He was appointed Senior Counsel in 2008. In 2010, he was appointed the 6th Attorney-General of Singapore, a post he relinquished in 2012 shortly before his appointment as a Judge of Appeal. He was appointed to the Presidential Council for Minority Rights upon his appointment as Attorney-General in 2010 and was later appointed as its Chairman in 2012, upon his appointment as Chief Justice.

Between 2012 and 2020, Chief Justice Menon served on the Governing Board of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration, and he also served as a member of the International Chamber of Commerce Governing Body for Dispute Resolution Services from 2021 to March 2024.

He is also an elected member of the American Law Institute, an Honorary Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple in England and the President of the Singapore Academy of Law. Chief Justice Menon was conferred the Honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by the University of Western Australia in 2022 for his services to the law and by the National University of Singapore in 2024 for his outstanding service to the practice and adjudication of law. In 2024, he was also awarded the White & Case Distinguished Jessup Alumni Award.

Chief Justice Menon is married with three children.

Justice Philip Jeyaretnam
President 
Singapore International Commercial Court

Justice Philip Jeyaretnam is the President of the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC). Appointed as High Court Judge in 2021, his focus on the Bench includes complex commercial cases, arbitration law, building and construction, and company and trust law. He serves as a member of the Judicial Service Commission and the Presidential Council for Minority Rights. In June 2022, he was appointed by the Chief Justice as the co-chair of the Commercial Practice Panel of the Supreme Court, to develop best practices for the management of commercial cases. 

Prior to joining the Bench, he was widely recognised in all major legal publications as a leading expert in commercial litigation, arbitration and construction law. He also sat as an arbitrator and is a Fellow both of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) and Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (SIArb). He was the founding chairperson of the Society of Construction Law (Singapore) from 2002 to 2004, and President of the Law Society from 2004 to 2007. In the last decade of his practice, he was managing partner of Rodyk & Davidson LLP and then ASEAN CEO for Dentons, following the combination between Rodyk and Dentons.

Professor Yeo Tiong Min SC
Yong Pung How Chair Professor of Law 
Singapore Management University

Professor Yeo Tiong Min SC (honoris causa), is the Yong Pung How Chair Professor of Law at the School of Law, Singapore Management University, where he has served since July 2007. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy and Bachelor of Civil Law from the University of Oxford and a Bachelor of Laws from the National University of Singapore. Admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor of Singapore in 2002, he was appointed an Honorary Senior Counsel in 2012 in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the legal profession and academia.

He previously served as Dean of the School of Law at SMU from 2012 to 2017 and was Associate Dean (Research) from 2009 to 2011. Before joining SMU, he was an Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore’s Faculty of Law, where he also held earlier appointments as Senior Lecturer, Lecturer, and Senior Tutor. Between 1998 and 2000, he was Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford.

Professor Yeo’s academic and professional service includes membership in several key bodies of the Singapore Academy of Law: the Law Reform Committee, the Council of Law Reporting (as Co-Chair), the Selection Panel for the Singapore Law Reports, and the Commissioning Panel for Academy Publishing. He also chairs the Advisory Board of the Asian Business Law Institute.

At SMU, he teaches Contract Law and Commercial Conflict of Laws. His principal research interests lie in Conflict of Laws, Equity, Restitution, Contract, and Remedies.

Steven Gee KC
Monckton Chambers

Steven Gee KC is a highly experienced commercial litigator and arbitration specialist with extensive expertise in commercial fraud, cross-border disputes, chancery matters, conflicts of law, insolvency, and partnership and joint venture disputes. He is admitted to practice in New York and the US District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, as well as in the British Virgin Islands, the Eastern Caribbean, and Antigua. He is also a member of the Irish Bar. Steven has appeared before appellate courts in the Eastern Caribbean, Cayman Islands, Bermuda, the Bahamas, Hong Kong, the Republic of Ireland, England, and the European Court of Justice post-Brexit.

He has served as a Recorder (part-time judge) presiding over civil, criminal, chancery, and family matters, including complex financial authorisations, as well as serious sexual offence and criminal appeal cases. Previously, he was Standing Junior Counsel to the Department of Trade and Industry (ECGD). A Chartered Arbitrator—the highest distinction conferred by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators—he holds internationally recognised standing in the field.

Steven is the author of Gee on "Commercial Injunctions", now in its 7th Edition (2021) with a 2022 Supplement published by Sweet & Maxwell, a leading authority on the subject featuring a US appendix. He has lectured internationally, including at the University of Cyprus (2024) on “Legal Ethics in a New Age,” and previously to the Commercial Bar Association, Chancery Bar Association, Hong Kong Arbitration Association, and the General Council of the Bar and Cyprus Bar Association. He has also addressed postgraduate doctoral students at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law and served as an assessor for the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

A tenant of Monckton Chambers, Gray’s Inn, since 2019, Steven was formerly a Litigation Partner at JHA LLP, Head of Chambers at Stone Chambers for 15 years (1999–2014), and previously a tenant at 1 Essex Court (1990–1999) and 4 Essex Court (now Essex Court Chambers) (1976–1990). Earlier in his career, he was a tutor at University College London (1975–1976).