About
Founded by practice leaders with decades of experience in leading international firms, Three Crowns is recognised as “one of the premier arbitration practices in the world” and “the go-to firm for high-value and complex matters”. With 90+ lawyers qualified in over 35 jurisdictions and offices in Dubai, London, Madrid, Paris, Singapore and Washington, DC, we offer clients a seamless service and experienced practitioners on every mandate. We have represented many of the world’s leading corporations, in addition to States and State-owned entities. Clients seek our advice on their most significant disputes, including those with novel legal issues and issues that are commercially important to their operations.
Practice areas
Lawyers in this office
Daryl Chew
Daryl is the managing partner of the firm’s Singapore office. He has an active portfolio of arbitrations involving a wide range of applicable laws and venues, arising from energy, construction, M&A, joint venture, and general commercial disputes. Daryl also serves as presiding arbitrator, co-arbitrator and sole arbitrator in institutional and ad hoc arbitration proceedings. · International Commercial Arbitration
Lee Wake
Lee is a senior associate in our Singapore office. He focuses on dispute resolution on major infrastructure and resources projects, with a particular focus on complex delay claims and delay analysis. His experience includes advising government and industry clients, as well as acting for owners, contractors, subcontractors and lenders to projects. Lee regularly advises on numerous dispute resolution mechanisms, including ICC and SIAC arbitrations, expert determinations, mediations, adjudications, and court proceedings. Lee is experienced in advising clients in relation to projects based in East Asia, the Middle East, Europe, the Americas and Africa in the power generation, oil and gas, petrochemical, civil engineering and transport industries. Clients have praised Lee for his “sound strategic judgement” and “technical ability, dedication and collegiality”, as well as having “a very good read on how Tribunals would react to arguments” and having “litigation in his blood”. · Dispute Resolution
Penny Martin
Penny, counsel in the Singapore office, has more than a decade of experience in international commercial arbitration and public international law. Her primary focus is on high-stakes energy disputes, including those relating to long-term oil and gas agreements (including environmental, abandonment and decommissioning, and cost recovery issues), renewable energy, mining, gas pricing, technology licensing, and intellectual property. · International Commercial Arbitration
Shaun Pereira
Shaun, counsel in the Singapore office, has represented States, State-owned entities and multinational corporations in disputes subject to arbitration under the ICC, SIAC, HKIAC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, CIETAC, ICSID and AAA-ICDR rules in proceedings across the energy, infrastructure, and financial services sectors. Shaun has a particular focus on disputes over the development and construction of major projects, and has advised on and acted in proceedings involving many such projects in Asia. · International Arbitration
Simon Elliot
Simon, a partner in the Singapore office, provides advice and representation in commercial and treaty proceedings conducted under the rules of the major arbitral institutions and ad hoc, and in pre-arbitration dispute resolution processes. His practice has a particular focus on disputes arising out of large infrastructure and major projects involving disputed technical, delay, and quantum related issues. Simon is admitted and entitled to practice at both the Paris Bar as an Avocat and in England and Wales as a Solicitor. He is also admitted in New Zealand. · International Commercial Arbitration
YiKang Zhang
YiKang is a dual-qualified senior associate in the Singapore office. He regularly represents clients in both investment treaty and commercial arbitrations under all major arbitral rules, with particular expertise in the energy and financial services sectors, and in joint venture/shareholder and M&A disputes. YiKang also has substantial experience in arbitration-related litigation and post-award proceedings. YiKang is admitted to practice in England & Wales (as a Solicitor-Advocate) and in New York. · International Arbitration