Personal bio
Kelvin Aw is a Director in CMS Holborn Asia, the Formal Law Alliance between CMS Singapore and Singapore law practice, Holborn Law LLC. Kelvin represents clients in their transactional and litigation matters in the construction, engineering, and infrastructure industries. He provides advice throughout the changing dynamics of a project cycle, ranging from front-end structuring and procurement to back-end work in which disputes have arisen. In Singapore, he represents clients in large-scale, landmark development matters. He also advises parties with projects in China, India, Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Myanmar, and the Middle East. Kelvin is committed to add value to clients’ operations and often identifies areas that can benefit from best practices in the industry, such as developing in-house standard contracts and operational guides for developers and constructors. He also brings his wealth of experience in the industries to the handling of contentious matters. Kelvin is particularly active in statutory adjudications under Singapore’s Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act (Cap. 30B), and delivers consistently with an impressive track record. Kelvin regularly represents clients in both international and domestic arbitrations in Singapore and the region, under arbitration rules of various arbitral institutions including the SIAC, KLRCA, CEITAC and ICC. His specialist knowledge of building and construction law and tenacity as a lawyer puts him in a position of strength in any arbitration. Kelvin is consistently ranked as a leading individual for construction by the Chambers Asia-Pacific: Leading Lawyers for Business and by The Legal 500. He is a fellow of the Singapore and Chartered Institutes of Arbitrators, and an accredited Senior Adjudicator with the Singapore Mediation Centre. In addition, he has served on the Council of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators and has taught construction law modules at the National University of Singapore.