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Sharon Chong is a dispute resolution partner with a broad practice spanning aviation, international arbitration, joint venture and shareholders’ disputes, commodities, fraud and asset recovery, as well as insolvency and restructuring. She has acted as advocate in a wide range of complex cross-border disputes, appearing before all levels of the Malaysian courts and in international arbitrations in Asia and Europe. Sharon is a former President of the Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators and currently serves on the Maxwell Chambers Steering Committee. In addition to her work as counsel, Sharon sits as arbitrator and has served as sole arbitrator in proceedings under the AIAC, SIAC and ad hoc rules. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) and the Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators (FMIArb). She is also on the panel of arbitrators of several leading international arbitration centres. In the restructuring and insolvency sphere, Sharon is a member of INSOL International and a Director of the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC). She is a founding member and immediate past Co-Chair of IWIRC Malaysia. She also contributes to advocacy training as a faculty member of the Bar Council of Malaysia’s Advocacy Training Course and Delos’s Remote Oral Advocacy Programme (ROAP) Asia edition. Sharon is regularly recognised by leading legal directories. She is ranked Band 5 for Dispute Resolution by Chambers Asia-Pacific, named a “Leading Partner” by The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific, and a “Litigation Star” in commercial disputes, dispute resolution and international arbitration by Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific. She is also recommended for Southeast Asia – Arbitration in the Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal). Her accolades include listings in The Legal 500 Arbitration Powerlist: Southeast Asia (2022 and 2023), ALB Asia’s Top 15 Rising Lawyers 2021, and recognition as a “name to know” in the Global Arbitration Review 100 (GAR 100).