Arthur is the Managing Director of Arthur, Darrell & Jing LLC and heads its Dispute Resolution department. He has been an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore since 2007.

He came to law from chemical engineering, and started out in patent litigation for the straightforward reason that he could read the science without needing it explained. That grounding still shapes the work. His practice now covers corporate and commercial disputes, construction, commodities, intellectual property and employment matters, in the courts and in arbitration, and much of it involves the kind of technical evidence that a case can turn on.

Arthur’s view is that litigation is the last resort rather than the first, and he says so early even when it is not what a client wants to hear. He also does a good deal of work before anything goes wrong, reading a client’s contracts and workflows the way an opposing counsel eventually will, and closing the gaps while they are still cheap to close. Where that is done alongside the firm’s corporate team, the client ends up with an arrangement that is commercially workable and holds up when it is tested. If a dispute comes anyway, they are the one holding the stronger hand. Most of his matters settle, which he regards as the point rather than a consolation.

He has taught advocacy since 2011 and now runs a couple of the Law Society’s other training programmes as well.

Experience

• First Currency Choice Pte Ltd v Main-Line Corporate Holdings Ltd and another appeal [2007] SGCA 50, and the subsequent proceedings on election of remedies and assessment, [2009] SGHC 232 and [2011] SGHC 268. Acted for First Currency Choice in a patent dispute over dynamic currency conversion technology for card payment systems, from the Court of Appeal through to quantum
• Société des Produits Nestlé SA and another v Petra Foods Ltd and another [2014] SGHC 252. Acted for the plaintiffs in proceedings concerning the validity and infringement of shape marks
• Yee Heng Khay (Roger) v Angliss Singapore Pte Ltd [2022] SGHC(A) 20. Acted for the appellant in the Appellate Division in a claim for breach of confidence against a former employee

Other matters

• Counsel in arbitrations under the SIAC, SCMA and KCAB rules, and in ad hoc arbitrations, in commodities, construction and technology licensing disputes
• Sits as arbitrator in commercial and intellectual property references, including proceedings administered by the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board
• Patent infringement and invalidity, trade mark and passing off, copyright, and breach of confidence claims taken to contested hearing
• Trade mark opposition, invalidation and revocation proceedings before the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore
• Construction and engineering disputes in both adjudication under the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act and arbitration
• Mareva injunctions, search orders and injunctions restraining the use of intellectual property and confidential information
• Matters involving parties or assets in Greater China, Europe and the United States
• Advisory work following which clients have rewritten their standard terms, changed how they protect their intellectual property, and overhauled internal processes

Education

• Bachelor of Laws (Honours), Second Class (Upper Division), National University of Singapore, 2006. Dean’s List, and overall Dean’s List on graduation
• Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical) (First Class Honours) with a minor in Business Administration, National University of Singapore, 2003. Dean’s List

Admissions and Appointments

• Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore, 2007
• Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators
• SIAC Panel of Arbitrators (Intellectual Property)
• Member, Advocacy Committee, Law Society of Singapore
• Sits as arbitrator in proceedings administered by the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board

Languages

• English
• Mandarin

Outside the Office

Arthur trains most days and climbed Mount Fuji in August 2026. He reached the summit in time to photograph a double solar halo, then went home and worked out the odds of seeing one.