Smitha Menon

Partner, WongPartnership LLP

Smitha Menon is a partner in the firm’s international arbitration, restructuring and insolvency and special situations advisory practices. Her main areas of practice are corporate disputes and restructuring.

Smitha’s international and local appointments include being the chair of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Singapore Arbitration Group and on the ICC Commission for Arbitration and ADR. Smitha is also the Singapore alternate court member on the ICC International Court of Arbitration. She is a fellow of the Insolvency Practitioners Association of Singapore, on the board of the Singapore network of the International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation, and on the Insolvency Practice Committee of the Law Society. A former council member of the Singapore Law Society and the Professional Affairs  Committee of the Singapore Academy of Law, she serves on the Law Society’s Inquiry Panel and is regularly appointed on disciplinary matters, including representing the Law Society before the Court of Three Judges. She has been appointed arbitrator on Indian law-governed arbitrations conducted under the SIAC Rules and ICC Rules.

Smitha’s expertise has been recognised in legal publications such as Chambers Asia-Pacific, IFLR1000, The Legal 500 and The Global Restructuring Review’s list of the world’s leading restructuring lawyers.