Sharon Chong Tze Ying

Partner at Skrine (Malaysia)

Speaker

Sharon Chong is a dispute resolution partner and her portfolio includes aviation, international arbitration, joint venture and shareholders’ disputes, commodity disputes, fraud & asset recovery and insolvency & restructuring.

She acts as an advocate in a wide array of cross-border disputes and has appeared at all tiers of the Malaysian courts and in international arbitrations in Asia and Europe.

Sharon is the Past President of the Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators and a member of the Maxwell Chambers Steering Committee and the YSIAC Council. In addition to her work as counsel, Sharon sits as arbitrator and has served as sole arbitrator in AIAC, SIAC and ad hoc arbitrations. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) and the Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators (FMIArb). She is also on the panel of arbitrators of AIAC, SIAC, HKIAC, KCAB and THAC.

Sharon is a member of INSOL International and a founding member and immediate past Co-Chair of the Malaysia Network of the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC). She has recently been elected as a Director-At-Large of IWIRC International for 2024-2025. She is part of the faculty for the Bar Council of Malaysia’s Advocacy Training Course and Delos’s Remote Oral Advocacy Programme (ROAP) Asia 2023-2024 edition.