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Jonathan Lim is a Counsel with WilmerHale’s leading International Arbitration Group in London. He will be speaking about overseas career opportunities in international arbitration, drawing on his various work experiences in Singapore, the US and the UK since graduating from NUS in 2011. He will also discuss opportunities currently available to NUS students in London, as well as how students can prepare and position themselves to best take advantage of these opportunities.

About the Speaker

Jonathan Lim
Counsel, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr

Jonathan Lim is a triple-qualified English solicitor, Singapore advocate and New York lawyer with a focus on complex international disputes. He has particular experience with disputes in the energy, financial services, technology and telecommunications sectors, and has represented clients in ad hoc and institutional arbitrations (including under the HKIAC, ICC, LCIA, SIAC and UNCITRAL Rules) in common law and civil law jurisdictions in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas. Mr. Lim has also worked on WTO dispute settlement matters involving claims under multiple WTO agreements (including GATT, GATS, TRIPS, TBT and SCM) and is part of the team representing the government of Somalia in its WTO accession process.

In addition to his practice as counsel, Mr. Lim has a developing practice as arbitrator and has received SIAC and DIS appointments as sole and party-appointed arbitrator in proceedings seated in Europe and Asia, including
bilingual English-Chinese arbitrations and arbitrations governed by the
CISG. He has also advised international organizations and governments in
Africa and Asia on public international law issues (including state and
international organization immunities, treaty accession, international trade
law, and law of the sea) and assisted with the drafting of legislation in Fiji,
Iraq, Papua New Guinea, Somalia and Tonga.

Mr. Lim is also a Visiting Senior Fellow at the National University of Singapore, where he teaches a course on commercial and investment arbitration and a course on international arbitration in China. He publishes and speaks regularly on international arbitration and financial regulation. He has also lectured on international arbitration and financial regulation at Kings College London, the National Law School of India University, the London School of Economics, and the Singapore Management University.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Lim worked with the World Bank’s Finance,
Private Sector and Infrastructure Practice Group in Washington DC. There, his portfolio included providing legal advisory services, on financial regulation, corporate insolvency and infrastructure-related issues, to developing country governments in Asia, Eastern Europe and the Pacific Islands. Mr. Lim also worked as a research fellow and associate for the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation in Cambridge, MA. He trained with a major Singapore law firm.

Firm/Group: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr (WilmerHale) is a leading US law firm with headquarters in Washington DC and Boston. WilmerHale’s International Arbitration Group, centred in the London office, handles virtually all forms of international arbitration, and is frequently cited as one of the world’s top teams in its field. The group is headed by Gary Born, one of the world’s preeminent authorities in the field, and has successfully represented clients in a number of the largest institutional arbitrations and several of the most significant ad hoc arbitrations to arise in the past decade. Our lawyers are or were recently involved in arbitrations seated in the United States (various situses), London, Geneva, Zurich, Stockholm, Vienna, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, The Hague, Singapore, Hong Kong, Mexico, Canada, Frankfurt and Berlin. In recent years, the arbitration group has handled disputes governed by the laws of more than 70 different legal systems.
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London Intern Program: The firm’s London Intern program provides a
unique opportunity for young lawyers from across the globe to experience the realities of a busy international arbitration practice and to learn from
colleagues who are leaders in their field. This is a paid internship that
welcomes students in the final stages of their legal education, and
practitioners in the early stages of their legal careers. The program provides
participants from both civil and common law jurisdictions with exposure to
the wide range of international commercial disputes handled in our Global
International Arbitration Practice. During their time at WilmerHale, interns are given the chance to put theory into practice by working with the International Arbitration Group’s lawyers on factual and legal assignments stemming from current cases, as well as the opportunity to further academic interests with involvement on research projects in conjunction with lawyers in the practice.