Career Highlights
 

Career Highlights

  • Scholarship winner and holder of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from Oxford University, 1962-1966

  • Partner, Allen & Gledhill, Singapore for over 30 years.

  • Admitted to practice in Singapore, England and Wales, West Malaysia and Victoria, Australia.

  • Judicial Commissioner, Supreme Court of Singapore, 1991-1992

  • Senior Counsel, Supreme Court of Singapore since 1997

  • United Nations Compensation Commissioner (Geneva), 2000 – 2002
  • Deputy Chief Justice, Dubai International Financial Centre since 2005-2010.
  • Chief Justice, Dubai International Financial Centre since 2010
  • President, Law Society of Singapore, 2008-2010.

  • Singapore’s Non-Resident Ambassador to Switzerland since 2003.
  • Vice Chairman, International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (Paris) since 2006-2009

  • Vice President, International Council of Commercial Arbitration 2002 - 2010

  • Vice Chairman, International Bar Association, Arbitration Committee D, 2001 - 2003

  • Member, Permanent Court of Arbitration (The Hague) since 1995 - 2010
  • Member, ICSID Panel of Arbitrators (Washington DC) since 2000

  • Member, HKIAC Court of Arbitration since 2001 
  • Council Member, International Council of Arbitration for Sports since 2007

  • Trustee, Dubai International Arbitration Centre since 2007

  • Council Member, Singapore Institute of Arbitrators 2005-2007

  • Member, Executive Committee of the lnstitute of Transnational Arbitration, (Dallas) 2002 - 2008

  • Member, IBA Working Party on “Guidelines on Conflicts of lnterest in International Arbitration” 2001 - 2004
  • Member, HKIAC Advisory Council since 2009
  • Member, SIAC Advisory Council since 2009
 

 
Qualifications as arbitrator

  • Accredited Arbitrator of more than 20 international and  national arbitration centres

  • Chartered Arbitrator

  • Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

  • Fellow, Singapore Institute of Arbitrators

 

Qualifications as mediator

  • Mediator and Evaluator, Singapore Mediation Centre

 

Academic and Editorial Appointments

  • Adjunct Professor, National University of Singapore since 2005

  • Member, Advisory Board of the Faculty of Law, Singapore Management University since 2007

  • Member, Advisory Board of the Journal of Intemational Arbitration since 2006

  • Editorial Adviser to the Chinese Arbitration Association  Journal of Arbitration, Taipei since 2001

  • Associate Editor, online arbitration joumal “Transnational Dispute Management” since 2005

  • Member, Editorial Board of “Global Arbitration Review” since 2005

  • Singapore Correspondent, Kluwer Arbitration Website since 2002

  • Member, Advisory Committee of the Journal of Arab Arbitration since 2009

  • Guest Lecturer for:
    • Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Entry, Fast Track and Diploma courses in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta and Hong Kong (2000 – 2007)
    • National University of Singapore – King’s College London MSc in Construction and Arbitration Law (2004 – 2008)
    • Singapore International Arbitration Centre – Panel of Arbitrators Training Course (2005)
    • ICC Course on ICC arbitration, Bangkok (2005)
    • Sophia University, Tokyo (2005)
    • Course Director, Singapore Institute of Arbitrators Fellowship course (2006 – 2007)
    • King’s College London-Dubai International Arbitration Centre – Advanced Course in International Arbitration Dubai (2006-2008)
    • International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) Symposium, Singapore (2007)
    • University of Lucerne, Switzerland (2008)

 

Commendations

  • Listed in “The International Who’s Who of Commercial Arbitration (2005)” as “Singapore’s leading lawyer for commercial arbitration expertise”

  • Listed in Global Arbitration Review (2006) as Asia's top arbitrator

  • Named in PLC Which Lawyer? (Yearbook 2008) as “Sole practitioner Michael Hwang is another pre-eminent expert, especially in arbitration, where he competes with some of the best-known local and international firms for instructions” and ranks him as one of the four leading dispute resolution practitioners in Singapore

  • Named in Who’s Who Legal 2008 (Commercial Arbitration) as “the most highly nominated individual" in (the Directory’s Singapore)  research a  “quite outstanding lawyer having received multiple nominations from within Singapore and overseas” and  an “illustrious figure in the local market” who “has a practical sense and a wealth of knowledge”

  • Named in Chambers Asia 2008 as “a world – class arbitrator” who is “brilliant, popular, prominent, incisive and decisive” and “always one of the first names to be mentioned … in regional arbitration”

  • Named in Who’s Who Legal 2008 (Commercial Litigation) as one of 7 recommended litigators for Singapore

  • Named in PLC Cross-Border Dispute Resolution Handbook 2008/9 as one of the 3 top dispute resolution practitioners in Singapore

  • Described in Asia Pacific Legal 500 2008/9 as “in terms of diversity of cases and sheer academics prowess, there is no finer Senior Counsel working in Singapore today”

  • Listed in The Best of the Best 2009 as one of the top 38 international commercial arbitration practitioners in the world

  • Guide to the World’s Leading Commercial Arbitration Experts (8th Ed, 2009) describes him as having received personal nominations for inclusion placing him in the world’s top 15 in this field.
  • Named in “PLC Which Lawyer? (14th Ed) Yearbook 2009” as one of the 3 top (leading) individual dispute resolution practitioners in Singapore
  • Described in “Who’s Who Legal – Commercial Arbitration 2010”  as “very meticulous, versatile and a household name”
  • Name in “Guide to the World’s Leading Litigation Lawyers (9th  Ed)” as one of Singapore’s leading litigation lawyers
  • Named in “The International Who’s Who of Construction Lawyers 2010” as being among 421 of the world’s leading construction lawyers
  • Named in “Asialaw Leading Lawyers 2010” as one of the most highly acclaimed legal experts in the Asia Pacific region following an extensive survey of senior corporate executives, in-house counsel and private practice lawyers
  • Named in “Guide to the World’s Leading White Collar Crime Lawyers (5th Ed, 2010)” as one of the recommended lawyers for Singapore