Ho Chien Mien is a Partner in Litigation & Dispute Resolution and heads the Construction & Engineering Practice. Chien Mien’s areas of practice encompass a wide range of contentious and non-contentious work in the areas of construction, engineering and infrastructure projects.

On the contentious side, he has extensive litigation, arbitration, adjudication and mediation experience - both domestic and international. His experience includes disputes relating to power, utilities, desalination, petrochemical and manufacturing plants, water treatment facilities, roads and tunnels, dams and waterways, mass rapid transit projects, sports complexes, aircraft hangars, major office buildings, retail malls, hotels, condominiums and specialised warehouses.

On the non-contentious side, he has been involved in some of the largest building and infrastructure projects in Singapore and the Asia-Pacific region including greenfield developments of power and utilities plants, oil storage terminals, LNG terminals and regasification plants, petrochemical and pharmaceutical plants, manufacturing facilities, mega-malls and transportation hubs, prime office towers and luxury hotels and condominium developments.

Chambers Asia (2009) commends Chien Mien as being “(t)he obvious choice for building and construction work” and for being “really savvy from a commercial and legal point of view”. According to Who’s Who Legal Singapore (2008), Chien Mien “is known for his ‘formidable’ litigation, arbitration and mediation experience, both at home and abroad”. The Asia Pacific Legal 500 (2007/2008) notes that “construction specialist Ho Chien Mien has a solid reputation” and that he “continues to be a leading light in construction disputes”. He is also listed as a key practitioner for Project Finance, Infrastructure and Energy in Asia Law Profiles (2007), for Construction in Asia Pacific Legal 500 (2009/2010/2011) and Who’s Who Legal 2011 and for Projects and Energy in Chambers Asia 2011.

Chien Mien sits on the main panel of arbitrators of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre and Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration. He is an Accredited Adjudicator with the Singapore Mediation Centre. He is also a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators and Accredited Arbitrator under the Law Society Arbitration Scheme.

Chien Mien graduated from Bristol University, UK with an LLB (Hons) degree in 1989. He qualified as a Barrister-at-Law at Gray’s Inn in 1990 and was called to the Singapore Bar in 1991, when he joined Allen & Gledhill. He became a Partner in Litigation & Dispute Resolution in 1997.

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