Singapore is well known for its favourable legal framework and policies towards inbound and outbound investment. As part of Singapore’s thriving investment landscape, Singapore is starting to build its thought leadership in investor-state dispute settlement, as evidenced by Singapore’s execution of investment treaties such as the EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement with new dispute settlement provisions and the Singapore court’s willingness and ability to grapple with the most thorny and difficult issues of investment treaty law.
In the sixth edition of the Investor-State Arbitration 2024 guide by International Comparative Legal Guides, our Head of International Arbitration Koh Swee Yen, Senior Counsel, and Commercial and Corporate Disputes Partners Tiong Teck Wee, Monica Chong Wan Yee and Joel Quek contributed a chapter on the current status and future developments of investor-state dispute settlement in Singapore.
This article was first published in ICLG - Investor-State Arbitration.
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