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Rodney Keong is a partner in Rodyk & Davidson LLP's Litigation & Arbitration Practice Group.

Rodney's area of practice is in commercial litigation, arbitration and mediation. He has experience in a wide range of commercial cases, from banking, international trade and insolvency, to construction, commercial fraud and corporate finance cases, including investment and joint venture disputes. He also handles insurance, defamation and negligence cases, as well as general contractual disputes. He advises and represents clients through all stages of the dispute resolution process: from strategy-forming and pre-action ancillary proceedings, to prosecution or defence of claims, and, finally, to the enforcement of judgments and awards. This includes, where appropriate, mediation and negotiation of commercial settlements. In construction disputes, he has represented developers, main contractors, and subcontractors, as well as building owners and management corporations.

Rodney previously advised and acted for several international investment funds in disputes over substantial Indonesian investments, including successfully obtaining and enforcing worldwide Mareva relief ancillary to arbitration proceedings. Rodney also successfully represented the plaintiffs in the landmark professional negligence case of RSP Architects Planners & Engineers (Raglan Squire & Partners FE) v MCST Plan No 1075 & Anor [1999] 2 SLR 449. The case established that building consultants owed a duty of care to management corporations to guard against pure economic loss. His recent cases include representing a major international trading company in international arbitrations against various parties involving international commodities trading, and representing a major property developer and main contractor in contractual claims against a leading ready-mixed concrete supplier in disputes relating to the 2007 Indonesian sand ban.

Rodney was recently appointed the international legal financial market expert for an economic sector development program, conducted by a Singapore government agency and funded by an international development bank, to review, and recommend reforms of, the debt-recovery laws of a developing South Asian nation. He has conducted seminars and talks for banks and financial institutions, Real Estate Developers' Association of Singapore and Singapore Corporate Counsel Association, on contract, banking and property law issues.