Shaun Leong, FCIArb, is an equity partner of global law firm Withers and international arbitration specialist with close to fifteen years of experience in complex cross border commercial disputes. He focuses on developing successful strategies to achieve clients’ objectives in cross jurisdictional disputes, and often works with clients to design disputes prevention processes prior to the occurrence of any disputes. Shaun is an internationally recognised leading practitioner at the forefront of emerging and revolutionary technologies including Artificial Intelligence (A.I.), Blockchain and digital assets. Awards and accolades include being the International Arbitration Lawyer of the Year nominee in Law.com International’s Asia Legal Awards 2024 and the (Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific Awards 2022), as well as the Digital Assets Lawyer of the Year nominee in Law.com International’s Asia Legal Awards 2023.

Shaun is actively involved in artificial intelligence matters. He was recently successful in representing a prominent digital assets company in a USD 36 million dispute involving novel and complex issues around legal liability arising from purported errors made by trading systems powered by artificial intelligence models and algorithms. He also advised a leading global A.I. powerhouse on cross border disputes and acted as its relationship Partner for projects in Asia and the Middle East.

He is a panel arbitrator with the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) and is the Head of the Academy of the Thailand Arbitration Centre (THAC). He is also an arbitrator with the Korean Centre of Commercial Arbitration Board, the Bali International Arbitration and Mediation Center, the Center for International Investment and Commercial Arbitration, the Tashkent International Arbitration Centre (TIAC), BeiHai Asia International Arbitration Centre, and the Bangalore International Mediation, Arbitration and Conciliation Centre.