Singapore’s Wong Partnership adds Daniel Gaw as partner

Daniel’s practice focuses on international arbitration and litigation. He has represented corporate clients and sovereign states in multi-billion-dollar disputes and investor-state arbitrations across various industries spanning oil and gas, mining, renewable energy, construction, commodities, and private equity.

Prior to Daniel's legal practice in his previous firms, he served as a justices' law clerk at the Supreme Court of Singapore from 2012 to 2015, where he assisted judges on various disputes before the High Court and Court of Appeal. He was concurrently appointed as a law clerk for the Competition Appeal Board in a case involving bid-rigging and also taught ethics and social responsibility at the Singapore Management University.

He is currently an APAC member of the YSIAC Council. He has also co-authored publications on commercial and civil litigation in Singapore and taught cross-examination at the Swiss Arbitration Academy as a guest lecturer in 2023.

He was twice appointed as a young independent counsel by the Supreme Court of Singapore to provide written and oral submissions on appeals raising significant legal issues of public interest.

Daniel graduated with first-class honors from the National University of Singapore. He also obtained an LLM in international business regulation, litigation and arbitration from New York University, where he received the Arthur T. Vanderbilt scholarship and the IBRLA Award for graduating at the top of the program.

Daniel has won numerous awards for excellence in advocacy. He was the winner of the Essex Court Chambers-Singapore Academy of Law Mooting Competition 2013/14, the Wong Partnership International Commercial Arbitration Moot 2010, and the B.A Mallal Moots Competition 2009.

Headquartered in Singapore, Wong Partnership is a market leader and one of the largest law firms in the country. The firm is part of a network spanning offices in China, India, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, and WPG, a regional law network of member firms in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, combining the expertise of over 400 professionals.