Mr Jimmy Yim Wing Kuen is the Lead Independent Director of the Company. He also holds directorships in Drew & Napier LLC and Vanda Global Capital Pte. Ltd.
JJimmy Yim, Senior Counsel, is Chairman of Drew & Napier LLC, one of Singapore’s most established law firms. The firm has a regional reach through its Drew Network Asia firms.
He has over four decades of experience in civil and commercial law and international arbitration. He has been involved in disputes in the laws of many different jurisdictions and spanning across a wide spectrum of areas from energy, joint venture, infrastructure, telecommunication and technology as lead counsel before the Supreme Court and numerous tribunals under the rules of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, International Chamber of Commerce, The London Court of International Arbitration and The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law.
As a leading dispute practitioner, he is recognised as a top dispute lawyer by all independent legal ranking publications such as Asia Legal Business, Best Lawyers, Chambers, The Legal 500 and Asialaw Profiles.
When Jimmy Yim was appointed Senior Counsel in January 1998, he had the honour of being one of the youngest Senior Counsel below 40 years of age at that time.