Lawrence Boo obtained his LLB (Hons) in 1980 and his LLM in 1988 from the National University of Singapore. After 10 years in private practice, he was appointed as the first Chief Executive Officer and Registrar of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC). He left the SIAC in June 1996 to set up The Arbitration Chambers. He is a Chartered Arbitrator and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London (FCIArb), the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (FSIArb) and the Arbitrators and Mediators Institute of New Zealand (FAMINZ). He is also admitted as a solicitor of England and Wales.

His experience in arbitration is evident from the more than 100 cases he had heard and the numerous reasoned awards he had made. He is appointed to the Panel of International Arbitrators and Mediators of the American Arbitration Association (AAA) New York, the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), China Maritime Arbitration Commission (CMAC), Korean Commercial Arbitration Board (KCAB), the Centre for International Commercial Dispute Resolution (CIDR) Hawaii, Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration (KLRCA), the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC), and the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC). He has also been appointed as arbitrator under the auspices of the Cour Internationale d'arbitrage de la CCI (ICC International Court of Arbitration). The High Court in Singapore had appointed him as arbitrator as well as Special Examiner in pending court proceedings.

Concurrently with this practice as arbitrator, he teaches Commercial Arbitration and supervises postgraduate and doctoral candidates at the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore and acts as a Law Reform Consultant to the Attorney-General's Chambers.

He has published many articles on arbitration, mediation and ADR and is the author of the title “Arbitration” in Volume 2 Halsbury's Laws of Singapore (1998) and the chapter on Singapore in the book “International Handbook on Commercial Arbitration” (1996). He is an advisor to the China Law Reports (Peoples' Republic of China), the international correspondent for the “The Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Law Journal” (London) and Singapore's National Correspondent to UNCITRAL's Case Law on UNCITRAL Text (CLOUT).