Hong is an associate based in the Washington, DC office. She represents sovereigns, their instrumentalities and corporations in commercial and investment treaty arbitrations in the US, Asia and Latin America and in various sectors, including technology, energy, aerospace, mining, and telecommunications. She has also advised on matters of public international law.
Before joining private practice, Hong was State Counsel at the International Affairs Division of the Attorney-General’s Chambers Singapore, where she advised the Singapore government on a range of international law issues, including trade and investment disputes, international organisations, privileges and immunities, United Nations Security Council Resolutions compliance, extradition, and mutual legal assistance. She also represented the Singapore Government in FTA negotiations and was a delegate to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law Working Group III (Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform) and ICSID Rules amendment project. Hong was also a Justices’ Law Clerk at the Supreme Court of Singapore.
Hong currently serves on the board of the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR)’s Young & International group. Hong studied law at the University of Cambridge and New York University as a Singapore Public Service Commission scholar, graduating with First Class Honours from the University of Cambridge. She is bilingual in English and Mandarin Chinese, and has a working knowledge of Spanish.
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Mandarin
Representing a consortium of oil majors in distinct Geneva and Stockholm-seated billion-dollar UNCITRAL arbitrations brought by a Central Asian State, relating to the division of profits and recovery of costs
Representing a US aerospace multinational in a billion-dollar ICDR arbitration, seated in New York, against a Latin American aerospace company arising out of the termination of an M&A agreement
Representing a European sovereign defending a confidential investment treaty claim brought by a Russian investor
Representing one of the world’s leading technology companies in a high-stakes Beijing seated CIETAC arbitration arising out of a development and supply agreement governed by English law
Representing a leading mining company in an UNCITRAL arbitration arising from a joint venture dispute relating to one of the world’s largest gold/copper mines
Representing the Kingdom of Cambodia in an ICSID claim brought by a Chinese telecommunications investor
Representing a State agency in an SIAC arbitration against a North American contractor in a defence-related construction dispute
- BA (Law), University of Cambridge
- LLM, New York University