Z.J. Jennifer Lim is Partner at Sidley Austin LLP in Singapore. She focuses her practice on international dispute resolution and arbitration, representing clients in investor-state and commercial arbitrations, including proceedings conducted under the ICSID, ICSID (Additional Facility), and UNCITRAL Rules, as well as ICC, HKIAC, SIAC and LCIA arbitrations seated in Hong Kong, Singapore, Spain, Washington DC and New York. Jennifer also sits as arbitrator and has broad experience advising on general transnational litigation matters, including arbitration-related court proceedings and complex cross-border disputes. Jennifer is an active member of the YSIAC Committee, where she is contributing to a report on resolving ESG disputes through international arbitration. Jennifer is recognized as a Who’s Who Legal (WWL) “Thought Leader – Global Elite 2023: Arbitration Future Leader”, the publication’s highest accolade for outstanding lawyers aged 45 or under.

Michael Lee directs the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR)® Asia Office in Singapore. Mr. Lee recruits and maintains the highest qualified panel in Asia for the ICDR’s International Panel of Arbitrators and Mediators. He is responsible for the ICDR’s Asia regional operations, including arbitration and mediation in the rapidly expanding Singapore arbitral seat, providing executive oversight of large cases. Michael is a frequent speaker to corporate and outside counsel on the importance of using arbitration and mediation to solve cross-border disputes, augmenting with research data on dispute management and business negotiation and clarifying the AAA-ICDR’s comprehensive rules and administrative process. He has been serving as the Chair of Legal Committee for AMCHAM (American Chamber of Commerce) Singapore since 2009.

Michael is partner with Control Risks, a specialist risk consultancy, responsible for the Forensic and Technology practice in Asia Pacific. He is an accountant who also studied both valuation techniques and arbitration law, meaning he brings a different perspective to the complex problems clients ask him to assist in resolving. Michael has had the privilege of working in many regions over the course of his career. First in North America, then Europe, the Caribbean, Central and Eastern Europe and now Asia, which helps him understand the cultural nuances at play in disputes. Michael’s practice focuses on establishing facts so that the parties to a dispute can base their negotiations on an agreed fact pattern, advising clients on possible financial outcomes of a dispute, sometimes as a jointly appointed expert, as well as assisting both judges and arbitrators to understand the accounting and valuation issues put before them for resolution, either as an expert witness or a tribunal member.