Biography

Cheng-Yee Khong leads IMF Bentham's Hong Kong office and works closely with our Singapore office to assess and manage funded cases throughout Asia, including arbitration, litigation and insolvency claims.

Cheng-Yee is an international arbitration specialist and lawyer with a global career. She has lived and worked in Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, France and Malaysia and advised on matters throughout the Asia Pacific region, Europe, U.S.A. and the Gulf. 

Cheng-Yee began her career as Deputy Counsel for the International Chamber of Commerce International Court of Arbitration Secretariat (ICC) in Paris, before qualifying as a solicitor with leading global law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London and working in the International Arbitration Group in Paris on international commercial / investment treaty arbitrations.  During this period, she had the opportunity to assist the Litigation team in representing an Asian State before the French courts in relation to a terrorist kidnapping.  She then returned to Asia to join leading Malaysian law firm Shook Lin & Bok in Kuala Lumpur.  Subsequently, Cheng Yee was appointed by the ICC as the regional director to head its Asia liaison office in Kuala Lumpur.  She was subsequently promoted as the Director and Counsel to the ICC in Hong Kong, where she helped launch the ICC's Asia Office and was in charge of developing and managing ICC arbitrations in the Asia Pacific region.

Cheng-Yee is a member of the Mauritius Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) Mediation & Arbitration Centre (MARC) Court and former Vice-President of the Asia Pacific Regional Arbitration Group (APRAG).

Cheng-Yee is a qualified lawyer in England and Malaysia. She has an Honours Degree in law from the University of Hull (United Kingdom) and a Masters Degree in International Business & Management from the University of Westminster, London.

Cheng-Yee is fluent in English, French and Cantonese and has conversational Malaysian, Indonesian, Mandarin and German.