Samuel Chacko

SAMUEL CHACKO

Samuel Chacko heads Legis Point LLC’s Dispute Resolution Practice Group. His areas of practice include arbitration, banking, building contracts, commercial disputes, copyright infringement, defamation, debt recovery, employment contracts, international trade, judicial review, probate matters, land disputes and general civil litigation. He has appeared at all levels of the Singapore Court structure and has handled numerous cases which have been reported in the Singapore Law Reports. A number of these cases are now leading decisions in various areas of law.

Samuel graduated from the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1991 with an LLB in the top five percentile of his class winning the Calcott Pryce Prize for Evidence. He went on to obtain an LLM from the University of Cambridge in 1993. Samuel also holds a Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration from the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and an MSc in Construction Law & Arbitration awarded jointly by King’s College, London and the National University of Singapore.

Whilst at university, Samuel participated in and won a number of national and international debating competitions and academic prizes. When he obtained his Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration, he graduated at the top of his class and won the Course Director’s Prize. When he obtained his MSc in Construction Law & Arbitration, he topped his class winning the E.C. Harris Prize and Davis, Langdon & Seah Medal in the process.

Samuel was called to the English bar in 1992 and admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore in 1994.

Samuel has an active international arbitration practice and has been lead counsel in a number of substantial international arbitrations involving complex cross-border legal and factual issues. He is a Chartered Arbitrator and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators. He has also been appointed to the arbitration panels of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration, the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators, the Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre and the Law Society of Singapore.

Samuel is the current Chairman of the Advocacy Committee and the Vice-Chairman of the ADR Committee of the Law Society. Samuel has been an advocacy trainer of the Law Society since 2004.

Samuel has been awarded the NITA Master Advocate designation by The National Institute for Trial Advocacy in the United States. Samuel’s expertise in Dispute Resolution has also been recognized in numerous legal publications.