KUA Lay Theng

KUA Lay Theng is a Partner in the Infrastructure, Construction & Engineering Practice.

Lay Theng graduated with LL. B Honours from the University of Leicester, UK and a LL.M. from the National University of Singapore. She is admitted to the Singapore Bar, the English Bar and the Malaysian Bar.

Her area of practice focuses on advising parties in the construction industry for the entire life cycle of projects. This encompasses front-end/transactional work such as drafting, reviewing, negotiating and advising on standard forms of building contracts and other related agreements in the building industry; project advisory work during the execution of the project and contentious work arising from the project in various forms of dispute resolution processes such as arbitration (both international and domestic), statutory adjudication, mediation and litigation.

Prior to joining WongPartnership, Lay Theng was a Partner at a leading law firm in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia where she handled construction-related disputes. She has considerable construction industry sector experience within the region especially in South East Asia.

She was the former Deputy Registrar of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) where she supervised the administration of arbitration cases filed at the SIAC including the scrutiny of arbitral awards and the appointment of arbitrators.

Lay Theng is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators. She also sits as an arbitrator and is on the SIAC Reserve Panel of Arbitrators, the Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC)’s Panel of Arbitrators and the Borneo International Centre for Arbitration and Mediation (BICAM)’s panel of arbitrators.

She is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Building and Construction Authority Academy.