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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, institutional creditors and medical and other 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:
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acting for several financial institutions in Singapore on claims made by customers who purchased investment products, including acting for a distributor of Minibonds in a claim by an action group of investors; |
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acting for institutional bondholders and creditor banks in enforcing security, restructuring, and insolvency proceedings; |
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acting for banks in the transfer of businesses to other banks using novel Schemes of transfer of business under the Banking Act; |
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acting for an institutional trustee in a High Court suit brought by the wife of a deceased settlor in a trust / restitutionary claim; |
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acted successfully for a former CEO and a former director of a Singapore listed company in alleged claims by the company of breach of restrictive covenants and fiduciary duty; |
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acted successfully for a large Chinese chemicals company in an ICC arbitration with a Singapore company arising from the Singapore company's failure to accept delivery of goods in China; and |
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acting for several consultant surgeons in negligence claims brought by patients in the High Court. |
As part of a larger team of lawyers at Allen & Gledhill LLP, he has also been involved in other large scale litigation, including having:
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acted for the largest charitable organisation in Singapore in a claim against its CEO and directors for breach of fiduciary duties; |
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acted for a statutory body in a statutory inquiry into the collapse of a major highway in Singapore; and |
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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 UK 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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