Profile: Lawrence Teh

Commercial Litigation

Biography: Commercial Litigation

Lawrence Teh is a partner in Rodyk & Davidson LLP's litigation and arbitration practice group. He appears regularly as leading counsel in the Singapore courts, in arbitration and mediation sessions.

Lawrence deals in a wide scope of commercial matters including shipping, aviation, banking, international trade, construction and engineering, and investment disputes.

Lawrence has handled both wet and dry shipping matters in the Singapore courts and advises major owners, banks and shipyards on shipping and commercial issues. He represents major air carriers in cargo and passenger claims and also in commercial disputes. Lawrence also advises and represents clients in international trade, including structured commodity trading, trade finance and logistics disputes. In relation to construction and engineering work, he advises on project planning and risk management issues, very often from inception to completion of the project and represents owners, consultants and contractors in construction and engineering disputes under standard form and bespoke contracts.

Lawrence is the secretary of the Maritime Law Association of Singapore and a vice chairman of the International Bar Association's Maritime & Transport Law Committee. He is also the chairman of the Civil Practice Committee of the Law Society of Singapore. He was the chairman of the subcommittee that drafted the Singapore Law Society's arbitration rules.

Lawrence graduated from Queen Mary College, University of London in 1991. He was admitted as Barrister (Inner Temple) in England & Wales in 1992 and as Advocate and Solicitor in Singapore in 1994.