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Lek Siang Pheng is a partner in Rodyk & Davidson LLP's Litigation & Arbitration Practice Group.

Siang Pheng handles civil and commercial litigation, including banking cases (banking advice, loan and mortgage recovery actions and bankruptcy actions), insolvency matters (work-outs, receivership, scheme of arrangement, judicial management and liquidation) China investment disputes, partnership and shareholders' disputes, domestic and international arbitration, contractual disputes, corporate disputes, medical litigation and insurance cases. He represents banks, companies and individuals, medical defence organisations and insurance companies in the course of his work.

He has acted as counsel in both domestic and international arbitrations, and also in several Subordinate Courts and High Court trials, as well as appeals to the High Court and Court of Appeal. He has appeared as counsel in numerous coroner's inquiries and disciplinary proceedings before the Singapore Medical Council.

His notable cases, in his 20 years of litigation and arbitration practice, include acting for lenders and borrowers in various insolvency and debt restructuring cases at the height of the Asian financial crisis; the successful defence of five insurance companies in the Singapore courts against a fraudulent insurance claim in respect of an alleged drowning of the insured; various high profile and successful defences of hospitals and doctors in malpractice cases; the successful claim in a high value international arbitration case arising from a failed joint venture in China; and the successful dismissal of a commercial claim by way of a preliminary application on behalf of a respondent in an international arbitration case.

Siang Pheng is a Fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators. He is also a Fellow of the Insolvency Practitioners Association of Singapore. He has been appointed by the Singapore International Arbitration Centre as sole arbitrator and co-arbitrator in international arbitrations.

He is a Honorary Legal Advisor to both the Singapore Medical Association and the College of Family Physicians Singapore. He is a member of the National Healthcare Group Research Ethics Committee, the NHG Domain Specific Review Board "C", the Parkway Independent Ethics Committee and the Changi General Hospital Medical Ethics Committee.