Alessa PANG is a Partner in the Commercial & Corporate Disputes, and International Arbitration Practices.

Alessa's main area of practice is in international arbitration and litigation. She handles a wide range of cross-border commercial disputes before international arbitral tribunals, as well as before the Singapore courts. She has acted for clients in ad hoc and institutional arbitration proceedings under SIAC, ICC, LCIA, HKIAC, UNCITRAL and ICSID Rules. Alessa is adept at handling matters involving foreign law, having advised and acted for clients in disputes governed by laws from civil law and common law systems. 

In addition to her international arbitration practice, Alessa also has extensive experience in arbitration-related court proceedings. She has acted for clients in setting aside proceedings, enforcement proceedings, applications for anti-suit injunctions and other court applications arising out of ongoing arbitration proceedings. In addition to counsel work, Alessa also sits as an arbitrator.

In 2020, Alessa spent two months on secondment to a Philippine law firm, where she assisted with Philippine-seated arbitration proceedings and advised clients on disputes arising from infrastructure projects in the Philippines. 

Alessa was the appointed Regional Representative for the South Asia Chapter of the ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (YAF) for the 2019 to 2021 mandate.  She is a Group Advisor for the 10th Cycle of the Young ICCA Mentoring Programme, and is also an appointed member of the AAA-ICDR Singapore Committee. Alessa is also a tutor for trial advocacy in the National University of Singapore.

Alessa is recognised as an Arbitration Future Leader in Lexology Index – Arbitration guide. Alessa has been described by clients in Legal 500 as a "very strong litigator with a great ability to assimilate detail and reframe it for the fight". Legal 500 also says that Alessa "readily masters the detail of even the most complex disputes".

Alessa graduated from the National University of Singapore. She is dual-qualified, and is admitted to the Singapore Bar and to the Roll of Solicitors of England & Wales.
 

Matters of significance in which Alessa has been involved in include advising/acting for the following:

  • Various investor treaty arbitrations and related court proceedings for and against States and State-owned entities, including acting for the Independent State of Papua New Guinea in an ICSID arbitration against the Digicel group over tax claims of US$100 million, an African state in an application to set aside an investment treaty award arising out of an arbitration constituted under the South African Development Community Treaty before the Singapore High Court and the Singapore Court of Appeal, and an Asian state against investors to set aside an arbitration award arising from a free trade agreement (applying UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules) before the Singapore courts. 
  • Various arbitration-related court proceedings, including acting for an African parastatal body in Mauritius-seated SIAC arbitration proceedings and subsequent setting aside proceedings before the Mauritius Supreme Court and the UK Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, a State entity in an application to set aside an ICC arbitration award before the Singapore courts which included the first ever decision from the Singapore courts on an application for production of the records of arbitrators’ deliberations, a Chinese construction entity in an application to set aside an ICC arbitration award before the Singapore courts, with the Singapore courts having to decide on the use of attorney-eyes only orders in arbitration proceedings and the implications of such orders on due process, and a prominent hotel management company in an application for anti-suit injunction for breach of an arbitration agreement.  
  • Various international commercial arbitration proceedings, including acting for the owner / operator of a data centre against the design and build contractor in London-seated LCIA arbitration proceedings and related adjudication proceedings under the Irish Construction Contracts Act 2013 with Irish law as the governing of the contract, a Chinese manufacturing company in Singapore-seated SIAC arbitration proceedings involving parallel proceedings before the Chinese courts, a Chinese construction and engineering company in Singapore-seated ICC arbitration proceedings against a Singapore-listed construction company in relation to disputes arising out of an EPC contract governed by Indonesian law.
     

Related Practices

  • Commercial & Corporate Disputes
  • International Arbitration
  • Post-Refusal to Order Production of Arbitral Tribunal’s Deliberations, SICC Dismisses Setting Aside Application, CaseWatch, December 2023 
  • Records of Arbitrators’ Deliberations to be Produced Only in Very Rarest of Cases, Singapore International Commercial Court Rules, CaseWatch, June 2023
  • Climate change, human rights and international public policy: an Asia-Pacific perspective, ICC Institute of World Business Law Dossier XXI: “Navigating the New Contents of International Policy – Compliance in Environment an Human Rights”, January 2023
  • Accessing Investment Treaty Protection: The Investor’s Perspective, Global Arbitration Review – The Guide to Investment Treaty Protection and Enforcement, 2nd Edition, 2022
  • Inter-Pacific event predicts “great opportunities for change”, Global Arbitration Review, 2022
  • International Arbitration: Trends and Developments in Singapore, Chambers and Partners, 2021
  • The International Arbitration Review (7th and 8th editions) – Singapore chapter
     

Lexology Index 

  • Arbitration: Future Leader in Arbitration
     

Contact Details

Qualifications

National University of Singapore (LL.B., Hons.)

Singapore Bar
Roll of Solicitors of England & Wales
 

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