Sharon Chong Tze Ying

Sharon Chong is a dispute resolution partner and her portfolio includes aviation, international arbitration, joint venture and shareholders’ disputes, commodity and oil and gas disputes, and insolvency and restructuring.

She acts as an advocate in a wide array of cross-border disputes and has appeared at all tiers of the Malaysian courts and in international arbitrations in Asia and Europe (including ad-hoc arbitrations and those conducted pursuant to ICC, AIAC, SIAC and TAI Rules).

Her other areas of practice include asset recovery and regulatory enforcement. Sharon is experienced in a broad range of corporate and commercial disputes and provides strategic input in advising corporate clients on fraud matters from the pre-dispute forensic investigation stage, to dispute resolution strategy.

Sharon’s clients have commented that her “skillset, integrity, intelligence and dedication to the case and client surprises all the time” (Legal 500 2022) and she been described as “extremely responsive and savvy”, “gives practical and clear advice” and has “impressed” with “both her round-the-clock availability and her ability to get up to speed with sometimes complex matters” (The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific 2021). She is also “very willing to roll up her sleeves and get the work done. Meticulous, with a strong work ethic and very easy to get along with” (The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific 2020).

Sharon is the Immediate Past President of the Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators (MIArb) and a Fellow of the CIArb (UK) and the MIArb. She is a member of the YSIAC Committee and Maxwell Chambers Steering Committee. She also sits as an arbitrator and is on the panel of arbitrators of AIAC, SIAC, HKIAC, KCAB and THAC.