Personal bio
Ethan Goei is an arbitration practitioner with a distinctive combination of engineering, offshore and marine sector experience, and senior expertise in cross-border regulatory and transactional risk. His particular focus is on technically complex and highly regulated disputes arising in the offshore, maritime, energy, and infrastructure sectors.
With more than 15 years of industry experience, Ethan understands the commercial and operational environment in which these disputes arise. His engineering background enables him to engage meaningfully with technical evidence, project documentation, contractual specifications, operational records, and expert testimony. At the same time, his experience in compliance, sanctions, anti-bribery, data privacy, audit, and transactional risk allows him to assess disputes in their broader legal, regulatory, and commercial context.
Ethan is particularly well suited to disputes involving:
- offshore and marine projects, assets, and operations;
- energy infrastructure and technically complex commercial arrangements;
- engineering, procurement, construction, installation, and services contracts;
- vessel-related transactions, chartering, operations, and regulatory matters;
- contractual risk allocation, representations, warranties, indemnities, and compliance obligations;
- sanctions, export restrictions, anti-bribery, and other regulatory issues affecting contractual performance;
- cross-border transactions involving heightened regulatory or counterparty risk; and
- disputes requiring the careful evaluation of technical, audit, compliance, or investigative evidence.
His value as an arbitrator lies in his ability to bridge the gap between law, engineering, regulation, and commercial reality. He brings a disciplined and evidence-led approach to proceedings, with particular emphasis on procedural fairness, efficient case management, careful testing of expert and factual evidence, and the delivery of clear and commercially intelligible decisions.
Ethan holds a Master of Science in Power Engineering from Nanyang Technological University and a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering, with a specialisation in offshore oil and gas, from the National University of Singapore. This technical foundation is complemented by a Graduate Certificate in Law and Technology from Singapore Management University.
He is a certified ISO 37301 Compliance Management Systems Lead Auditor and ISO 37001 Anti-Bribery Management Systems Internal Auditor. He also holds the International Compliance Association Diploma in Managing Sanctions Risk, awarded in association with Alliance Manchester Business School. His privacy qualifications include the Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe credential and recognition as a Certified Practitioner in Personal Data Protection in Singapore. He has also undertaken executive education in General Management and Mergers and Acquisitions through the National University of Singapore Business School and Columbia Business School.
Ethan’s multidisciplinary experience is especially relevant where a dispute extends beyond the interpretation of contractual language and requires the tribunal to understand how projects, assets, regulatory obligations, and commercial decisions operate in practice. He offers parties and counsel an arbitrator who can engage confidently with complex evidence, identify the issues that are genuinely determinative, and conduct proceedings with independence, proportionality, and commercial focus.