Wu Muyu
Associate
- Consultant & Head of Admiralty
- Advocate & Solicitor, Singapore
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Senior Accredited Specialist (Maritime & Shipping),
Singapore Academy of Law
Muyu is an associate in Incisive Law.
Muyu graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Laws in 2022 and was admitted to the Singapore Bar as an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore in 2023. Prior to joining Incisive Law, Muyu trained and practised at the leading Shipping and International Trade practice in Singapore. His main practice areas include shipping, trade, and trade finance disputes.
Muyu graduated with First Class Honours. He was a recipient of the Helmsman Prize in Maritime Law, the Rajah & Tann Asia Prize in the Legal Systems of Asia and made the Dean’s List in his third and fourth years of university.
Muyu represented his university in the International Maritime Law Arbitration Moot, where he led a small team to a first-place finish in the general rounds, and subsequently to the grand finals. He also participated in the MLAS Maritime Mooting Competition in 2023, finishing first runners-up, as well as the Essex Court Chambers-Singapore Academy of Law Moot 2025, where his team made it to the quarterfinals.
In his free time, Muyu assists in coaching the National University of Singapore’s team for the International Maritime Law Arbitration Moot.
Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), First Class Honours, National University of Singapore
The Law Society of Singapore
Singapore Academy of Law
English
Chinese
- Successfully obtained an anti-suit injunction against a foreign investor who commenced proceedings in breach of an exclusive jurisdiction clause in favour of Singapore Courts.
- Successfully represented subsidiaries of a Chinese bank before the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC) in a US$170 million claim against a director, shareholder, and executive chairman of a Singapore-listed company for breach of his obligations under letters of support.
- Successfully acted for a Singapore bank in a dispute with its customer in excess of US$40 million over banking facilities, letter of credit, and performance guarantee.
- Acted for a Singapore commodity trading company in a US$300 million fraud claim involving financing based on forged warehouse receipts. Successfully resisted pre-action discovery and interrogatories applications before the Singapore Court and obtained an injunction against the adverse parties.
- Acted for a Singapore commodity trading company in a fraud case arising from the trading and storage of gold and precious metals in warehouses.
- Acted for a terminal and arrested a VLCC for an allision caused by the VLCC against the terminal’s berth.
- Acted for an oil trading company in the arrest of multiple vessels arising out of the insolvency of an oil supplier.
- Assisted in acting for a Chinese state-owned company in a successful appeal before the Court of Appeal against the refusal of the General Division to grant an anti-suit injunction in support of arbitration.
- Assisted in successfully defending a Singapore listed oil trading company in respect of claims brought by the issuing bank of a letter of credit on the grounds of fraudulent misrepresentation, negligence, and breach of contract.
- Assisted in acting for a Chinese state-owned company to successfully resist a jurisdictional challenge brought against limitation proceedings commenced in Singapore.
- Assisted in acting for a Chinese state-owned company in resisting an application to stay and set aside an anti-suit injunction.
- Assisted in acting for a Singapore trading company in relation to a precious metals fraud case.
- Assisted in acting for a subsidiary of a Singapore listed company in an arbitration in connection with a brokerage agreement for various sales of biofuels.
- Assisted in the issuance of an advice on Singapore sale of goods law for the purposes of foreign proceedings arising out of fraudulent trades of various commodities.
- Assisted in advising and acting for for a bank in relation to potential claims arising out of a set of unlawfully switched bills of lading.
- Assisted in advising a Singapore listed company in relation to the severance of a submarine cable.
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