Sarbjit Singh Chopra

Sarbjit Singh Chopra is Managing Director of Duane Morris & Selvam LLP, the Joint Law Venture between Duane Morris LLP and Selvam LLC. Mr. Singh is concurrently a Director of Selvam LLC, a Singapore law entity, where he heads the dispute resolution and construction practices. He has more than nearly four decades worth of experience and he focuses his practice in the areas of commercial litigation and arbitration. He has handled a wide range of cases from construction disputes to defamation suits. Mr. Singh has been cited in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2018-2022 edition as a recommended lawyer in Singapore Dispute Resolution and recognized in the area of Arbitration and Mediation by The Best Lawyers in Singapore since 2018.
 
Mr. Singh has acted in numerous matters in the High Court and the Court of Appeal over the years. He has also undertaken substantial projects for various clients and these include involvement in tenders for structural projects (e.g., The Mass Rapid Transport (MRT), telecommunication contracts and construction of power plants) and matters related to joint ventures. He has conducted numerous arbitration, mediation, adjudication and Court proceedings.
 
Mr. Singh was admitted as a Barrister-at-Law (Gray’s Inn) and has been in practice as an Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore since 1984. He has successfully completed the course in arbitration law and practice conducted by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and Singapore Institute of Arbitrators. Mr. Singh can speak English, Malay and Punjabi.

• Acting for a contractor in respect of a claim for tunneling works done for underground railways tracks. The claim was against the main contractor.
• Acting for a main contractor in an arbitration resisting a claim by a sub-contractor for works done at a public school.
• Numerous Adjudication matters in Singapore Mediation Centre under the Security of Payment Act from approximately $300,000 to $150 million.
• Acted for an Austrian Company against a noted engineering company in relation to the construction of sewage tank covers for a sewage plant in Singapore.
• Acted for a majority shareholder in defending a minority oppression claim involving a company having a value in excess of $400 million.

• Appellate
• Civil litigation
• Commercial and transactions
• Insolvency
• International arbitration

• Construction and materials
• Consumer goods and services
• Financial services
• Government and public policy
• Tech and telecoms

• Singapore (1984)

• Law Society of Singapore
• Singapore Academy of Law

• University of London, LL.B., 1982
• Gray's Inn, London, Barrister-at-Law, 1983