Shaun Leong, FCIArb, is an international arbitration specialist with close to fifteen years of experience in complex cross border commercial disputes. Shaun is an internationally recognised leading practitioner at the forefront of emerging and revolutionary technologies including artificial intelligence (A.I.) and blockchain and digital assets. He is the International Arbitration Lawyer of the Year nominee in Law.com International’s Asia Legal Awards 2024, and is recognised for “particular expertise in cryptocurrency, A.I. and blockchain disputes” in the Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024.

Shaun became the first lawyer in the world to successfully obtain a worldwide proprietary injunction to freeze a non-fungible token on the blockchain in a commercial dispute, and separately represented investors in all three major collapses in the 2023 crypto winter, in particular the Terraform Luna involving the collapse of one of the world’s largest algorithmic stablecoin, the collapse of Three Arrows Capital and the world’s second largest crypto exchange, FTX. Shaun is actively involved in artificial intelligence matters. He was recently successful in representing a prominent digital assets company in a USD 36 million dispute involving novel and complex issues around legal liability arising from purported errors made by trading systems powered by artificial intelligence models and algorithms.