Naing Oo MINN

Minn Naing Oo is the Managing Director of Allen & Gledhill (Myanmar) and a Partner of Allen & Gledhill. He is an experienced international arbitration practitioner and arbitrator. Minn is also the former Chief Executive Officer and Registrar of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC).

As Registrar of SIAC, Minn oversaw the management of arbitral cases at SIAC and the operation and implementation of the SIAC Arbitration Rules in SIAC-administered cases. He was involved in the drafting of the SIAC Arbitration Rules 2010 which introduced the Expedited Procedure and the Emergency Arbitrator procedure. While at SIAC, he was Singapore’s representative to the UNCITRAL Working Group on revising the UNCITRAL arbitration rules. In addition, after SIAC, he worked on the drafting of the Myanmar Arbitration Law 2016.

As an arbitrator, Minn has sat in cases involving various subject matter and sectors, including investment and joint ventures, project development, telecommunications, insurance, and distribution. Minn has spoken at numerous events and written widely on international arbitration.

Minn is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators. He is a member of the panel of arbitrators of various arbitral institutions. He is also an arbitrator for World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes, and is a Specialist Mediator Panel member of the Singapore International Mediation Centre (SIMC).

Apart from his time at SIAC and in private practice, Minn was previously a Director at the Ministry of Trade and Industry Singapore overseeing Singapore’s WTO and free trade agreement negotiations.

Minn graduated from the National University of Singapore with an LLB and obtained an LLM from Columbia University as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.