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Philip Jeyaretnam SC

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Rodyk & Davidson LLP

80 Raffles Place
#33-00 UOB Plaza 1
Singapore 048624

Tel: +65 6885 3605
Fax: +65 6225 1838
philip.jeyaretnam@rodyk.com
www.rodyk.com


Philip Jeyaretnam, SC is managing partner of Rodyk & Davidson LLP. He continues to run a full-time litigation and arbitration practice as a partner in Rodyk & Davidson LLP’s Litigation & Arbitration Practice Group.

Philip graduated from Cambridge University (First Class Honours) in Law and was a visiting Fulbright Fellow at Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the Singapore Bar in 1988, and was appointed Senior Counsel in January 2003.

A commercial litigator, Philip’s principal area of focus is project related disputes, including property, building and construction claims, and joint venture and investment disputes.

Philip was president of The Law Society of Singapore from January 2004 to December 2007. He was the founding chairman of the Society of Construction Law, Singapore. Philip acts as arbitrator, and is a member of the Regional Panel of Arbitrators, Singapore International Arbitration Centre. He is a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators.

He has been appointed as Chairman of Maxwell Chambers, the world’s first integrated dispute resolution complex housing both best-of-class hearing facilities as well as top international ADR institutions.

Philip is a member of the Public Service Commission, the constitutional body that oversees the public service in Singapore.