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Tham Hsu Hsien

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+65 6890 7820

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+65 6302 3273

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tham.hsuhsien@allenandgledhill.com

 

Tham Hsu Hsien is a Partner in Litigation & Dispute Resolution. His main areas of practice are in banking and securities, insolvency and professional negligence. He acts regularly for major financial institutions and institutional creditors and a medical defence organisation defending medical professionals from malpractice and disciplinary actions. He also acts in employment, sale of goods, engineering and natural resource matters.

His recent litigation and arbitration practice includes the following:

acting for several financial institutions in Singapore on claims made by customers who purchased structured products;

acting for institutional bondholders in enforcing security against issuers in default of their obligations under the bonds;

acting for banks in the transfer of businesses to other banks using novel Schemes of transfer of business under the Banking Act;

acting for a group of doctors in a large claim brought by the parents of a young patient in the High Court;

advised and acted for a Chinese oil and minerals exploration company in contractual disputes and arbitration with its joint venture parties in an oil and gas exploration project;

acting for a large Chinese chemicals company in an arbitration under the ICC Rules with a Singapore company arising from the Singapore company’s failure to accept delivery of goods in China; and

acting for a subsidiary of a Singapore listed company in potential engineering arbitration in London under the UNCITRAL rules

 

As part of a larger team of lawyers at Allen & Gledhill LLP, he has also been involved in other large scale litigation, including having:

acted for the largest charitable organisation in Singapore in a claim against its CEO and directors for breach of fiduciary duties;

acted for a statutory body in a statutory inquiry into the collapse of a major highway in Singapore; and

acted for a director of listed companies in the first criminal case brought in Singapore against directors for breach of continuous disclosure requirements under the Securities and Futures Act.

 

Hsu Hsien was seconded to Fountain Court Chambers in England where he worked with senior barristers on major banking and insurance litigation and arbitration in London. These included an action brought by the authorities against eight financial institutions for alleged unfair bank charges on customers, and a multi-million pound claim by an investor against the arrangers of a note issue and the shareholders of the issuer arising from a collapsed securitization of receivables.

Hsu Hsien graduated from the National University of Singapore with an LLB (Hons) degree in 2002 and was called to the Singapore Bar in 2003.

 

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