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Edward Tiong

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+65 6890 7887

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+65 6302 3276

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edward.tiong@allenandgledhill.com

 

Edward Tiong is a Partner in Litigation & Dispute Resolution. His main areas of practice are corporate restructuring and insolvency, banking litigation, commercial litigation and property disputes.

Matters of significance that Edward has been involved in include:

 

successfully defended Credit Suisse against a claim from Pertamina Energy Trading Limited on allegations of fraud, conspiracy, breach of trust and breach of contract;

representing Fu Yu Corporation Limited in its financial and operational re-structuring;

advised a major property developer on insolvency issues relating to the closure of the SOGO chain of retail stores;

represented a syndicate of major international and local banks for the recovery of funds from prominent Indonesian company and other prominent individuals;

represented a public listed company against former directors in a matter before the Court of Appeal on issues concerning breaches of employment contracts, fiduciary duties, and confidentiality and non-competition agreements;

represented Bank of America in a matter concerning cross-border transactions with allegations of fraud and misappropriation of funds;

represented Parkway Holdings Limited in a multi-million dollar contractual dispute against the UAE Health Office over patient bills; and

successfully represented four creditors in contractual disputes against prominent businessman, Peter Kwee in relation to the sale of Laguna Golf & Country Club.

 

Edward was also seconded to Linklaters in London in 2002. Some significant cases during his tenure include:

 

represented a joint venture vehicle between two major supermarket retailers in England over issues raised by the Office of Fair Trading, including complex and novel issues of law; and

advised Airbus on a multi-jurisdictional dispute relating to the supply of aircraft engines worth several hundred million Euros.

 

Edward has recently been appointed as an independent non-executive director and a member of the audit committee of Japan Land Limited, a company listed on SGX. He graduated from the University of Hull with an LLB (Hons) degree and joined Allen & Gledhill after his call to the Singapore Bar in 1998.

 

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