Yi-Jun Kang Recognized as a Rising Star by Asian Legal Business

Yi-Jun Kang, an associate in MoFo’s Singapore office, has been recognized as a Rising Star by Asian Legal Business (ALB) in its 2024 edition. The list spotlights the next generation of lawyers in Singapore who are doing high-quality work and receiving endorsements from colleagues, superiors, and clients in the ALB review process.

Yi-Jun focuses on complex, cross-border commercial litigation and arbitration. She has a broad range of experience, across a variety of industry sectors, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity, shareholder, energy, and intellectual property disputes. In her complex cross-border commercial arbitration work, she has represented numerous conglomerates and multinational corporations in commercial arbitrations conducted under, amongst others, the International Chamber of Commerce, Singapore International Arbitration Centre, Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, London Court of International Arbitration, and United Nations Commission on International Trade Law arbitration rules.

Clients describe Yi-Jun as a “trusted resource for [their] organization” whose “clarity of thought shines through in her written work", and as having a “comprehensive understanding and superb control over [matters] all the way through.”

Yi-Jun is qualified in Singapore and England and Wales, and she is bilingual in English and Mandarin Chinese. Yi-Jun is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a member of the YSIAC Council, a member of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee of the Law Society of Singapore, and assistant editor for Southeast Asia of the Kluwer Arbitration Blog.

You can view the full list of individuals named on ALB’s Singapore Rising Stars 2024 list on the publication’s website.