Rachel Low
Rachel is a Singapore lawyer who is regularly briefed by law firms as counsel or co-counsel, and frequently assists King’s Counsel and Senior Counsel on complex disputes in Singapore and abroad.
Rachel possesses extensive experience in a broad spectrum of disputes including investment treaty arbitrations, commercial arbitrations, arbitration-related court proceedings, private international law disputes, financial services-disputes, and fraud and asset recovery claims. She has particular expertise in arbitration-related disputes having worked on many significant cases, including Halliburton v Chubb and Enka v Chubb that led to landmark decisions by the UK Supreme Court.
Practice Area
Panel
- Contributing Author
Qualified Year
- 2013
Experience
- Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP (2013 - 2018)
Membership
- Singapore Academy of Law
- The Law Society of Singapore
- David Grief International Consultancy
Qualification
- LL.B. (Hons) (2012)
Education
- National University of Singapore (2008-2012)
1 Contributions by Rachel Low
PRACTICE NOTES
Singapore third-party funding and conditional fee agreements: statutory regime, disclosure duties, institutional guidance and recent case law in arbitration, SICC and related proceedings
Third-party funding in Singapore arbitration
This Practice Note centres on the statutory scheme governing third-party funding in Singapore arbitration, together with guidance derived from case law and relevant soft law instruments. For an overview of third-party funding in international arbitration generally, see Practice Note: Third-party funding and arbitration.
Since its legalisation in 2017, the use of third-party funding has grown across Singapore litigation and arbitration. Although not novel to international arbitration, leading arbitral hubs—including London, Paris and Geneva—have long allowed such funding.
Singapore’s statutory framework was introduced in 2017 and, under section 5B of the Civil Law Act, applied to specified dispute resolution proceedings. At the outset, this captured international arbitration and court or mediation proceedings associated with that arbitration.
In 2021, the Civil Law (Third-Party Funding) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 broadened the regime to domestic arbitration proceedings, certain proceedings before the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC), and related mediation proceedings. Funding is also permitted under specific circumstances in insolvency proceedings, as set out in case law and the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act...
Arbitration
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