Daryl WONG is a Partner in the Banking & Financial Disputes Practice.
His main areas of practice include international arbitration, litigation and mediation across a wide range of matters from banking, commercial, fraud, and investments with a focus on complex, high-value, and multi-jurisdictional disputes.
Daryl has advised and represented global private, public, and individual clients from various jurisdictions in the Singapore courts and in both ad hoc and institutional arbitrations under leading arbitral rules, as well as in the Singapore International Commercial Court.
Daryl has extensive experience in arbitration-related court proceedings and has acted for clients in setting aside and enforcement applications, and other court applications arising from arbitration proceedings.
Daryl graduated with First Class Honours from the University of Tasmania, Australia, and is admitted to the Singapore Bar.
Matters of significance which Daryl has been involved in include advising / acting for the following:
Banking & Financial Disputes
- Banks and financial institutions on various matters, including successfully resisting claims brought by an investor on the basis of, e.g., a breach of a duty of care.
International Arbitration
- Clients in arbitration-related court proceedings, including acting for a world-leading, LSE-listed steel plant designer and manufacturer in successfully setting aside an arbitral award rendered in an ICC arbitration involving claims exceeding £280 million; for a Chinese multinational technology conglomerate in successfully resisting a setting-aside application arising from a trademark infringement dispute involving cryptocurrency; and for an Omani military and security systems integrator in successfully resisting a setting-aside application and an arbitrator challenge in an infrastructure dispute against an Indian public sector enterprise.
- Clients in complex and high value international commercial arbitrations, including for one of the world's largest solar panel manufacturers in two SIAC arbitrations over claims of more than US$100 million brought by a notable construction group over alleged defective solar panels.
Commercial litigation
- Clients in complex, high-value commercial disputes before the Singapore Courts at all levels, including acting for a well-known German confectionery company against its South Korean distributor in a contractual dispute governed by German law with parallel proceedings in the Korean courts; for the owner of a cosmetics company in a dispute concerning an alleged trust involving the application of Californian and Singapore law; and for an individual in a multi-jurisdictional estate dispute involving assets across several jurisdictions and the application of Indian and Singapore law.
Related Practices
- Banking & Financial Disputes
- Curbs on Foreign Court Intervention Clarified (2025)
- Soft law in the Paris Climate Agreement: Strength or weakness? Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law (2017)
Contact Details
- d+65 6416 8697
- f+65 6532 5722
- edaryl.wong@wongpartnership.com
Qualifications
University of Tasmania (LL.B., First Class Honours)
Singapore Bar