Rebecca Chia

Partner

Rebecca’s main areas of practice are in commercial litigation and international arbitration. She regularly acts in complex contentious matters, with a particular interest in technology-related disputes, involving payment services, crypto exchanges and digital banking services. She also acts and advises in contentious corporate commercial matters including employment disputes and disputes involving shareholders and directors.

Rebecca was seconded to Google’s legal team in 2021 where she was involved in matters relating to payment services, platform services, marketing, and procurement. She was appointed as a Young Independent Counsel by the Singapore High Court in 2024. She is an Accredited Mediator with the Singapore Mediation Centre.

Rebecca graduated from the University of Oxford with a B.A. (Hons) in Law degree (First Class). She is a co-author of the publication Lexology In-Depth: Asset Tracing and Recovery (12th Ed, 2024).

Work Highlights

• Acted for Indonesian entities in a EUR multi-million claim against a European multinational corporation in an International Chamber of Commerce arbitration.
• Acted for a major local bank in the Singapore High Court and Singapore Court of Appeal in relation to a multi-million arbitral dispute against an Indian corporation.
• Acted for liquidators in a successful clawback action in the Singapore High Court and Singapore Court of Appeal against the company’s former directors and shareholders for unfair preference transactions and breaches of fiduciary duties.
• Acted for a digital bank licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore in a Singapore High Court claim and worldwide freezing injunction application.
• Acted for two investors in a multi-billion dollar investor-state treaty arbitration against an Asian state.
• Acted as Young Independent Counsel in Public Prosecutor v Marlene Wise [2024] SGHC 320.