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 has worked with Judge Ronnie Abrams on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and assisted with the representation of low-income individuals in the Bronx at The Bronx Defenders. His work on the termination of intra-EU BITs has been published in the American Review of International Arbitration.
YiKang obtained his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a James Kent and Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and was awarded the Whitney North Seymour Medal for excellence in trial advocacy. He also holds an LL.B with First Class Honours from King’s College London, where he finished top of his class in consecutive years.
YiKang is admitted to practice in England & Wales (as a Solicitor-Advocate) and in New York.
Bar and court admissions
Languages
English
Mandarin
Secured a $100 million award for Elliott Associates against the Republic of Korea in an UNCITRAL arbitration under the United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement
Secured full dismissal of a $200 million claim made against the Sultanate of Oman in an ICSID arbitration relating to an oil and gas construction and engineering contract
Representing the Republic of Finland in two ICSID arbitrations under the Energy Charter Treaty in the power distribution sector
Secured full dismissal of a $430 million claim made against an Asian national oil company in an ICC arbitration arising from the client’s withdrawal from a production sharing contract in Central Asia
Secured a $150 million award for an Asian national oil company in an ICC arbitration arising from a production sharing contract with another Asian national oil company, while defeating a $140 million counterclaim in the same proceeding
Representing an international investment group in an SIAC arbitration arising out of tariffs imposed by the United States
Secured full dismissal of a claim made against an international investment group in an LCIA arbitration relating to the valuation of a global tech start-up
- J.D., Columbia Law School
- LL.B, King’s College, London