Walter Woon

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Biography

Mr. Walter Woon serves as Chairman & Senior Consultant at RHTLaw Asia. Troughout Mr. Woon's career he has held several prestigious positions and has had experience in legal practice, diplomacy and academia both locally and internationally. He has appeared in the High Court and Court of Appeal on many occasions, representing the President as co-counsel in Constitutional Reference No. 1 of 1995, which is the only case heard by the Constitutional Tribunal to date. He is the author of several law books, including The ASEAN Charter: A Commentary (2015); Walter Woon on Company Law (now in its third edition, edited by Professor Tan Cheng Han), a standard text on company law used in law and business schools in Singapore. In addition, he is also the author of reference works such as The Companies Act of Singapore: An Annotation (originally co-written with Andrew Hicks, now forming the basis of Woon's Corporations Law); and Towards a Rules-Based Community: An ASEAN Legal Service (with Jean-Claude Paris). He has also published articles in the Malayan Law Journal, the Malaya Law Review, the Securities Industry Review, the Law Society Journal, the Singapore Academy of Law Journal, the Australian Journal of Corporate Law, the Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal, the Korean Society of International Law Journal, and the Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs. He has a degree in LLM from Cambridge University.