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William Ong

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william.ong@allenandgledhill.com

 

William Ong is a Partner in Litigation & Dispute Resolution. William’s areas of practice encompass arbitration, banking litigation, corporate insolvency and restructuring, corporate litigation such as shareholders’ disputes and breach of directors’ duties, partnership disputes and competition law. William is adept in the Chinese language and has advised various Chinese clients. He is on the Panel of Mediators of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) Mediation Centre. William is also an Associate in the Insolvency Practitioners Association of Singapore (IPAS).

Some of the cases which William has represented and advised on include:

 

acted for a major European airline in an arbitration with another airline in relation to a joint venture dispute which involved the provision of IT services;

acted for an international bank that was sued by its Indonesian clients for alleged breach of its mortgagee duties in a claim exceeding US$130 million;

acted for a bank in defending claims in relation to a fraud allegedly committed by an ex-employee;

acted for Moody’s in defending a claim in relation to the issuance of credit ratings;

acted for an international wines and spirits producer in its dispute with a golf events organiser over the staging of a PGA golf tournament in Singapore;

acted for the Singapore subsidiaries of Refco Inc on various issues resulting from Refco Inc being placed under Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code;

acted in an appeal filed by an energy player against a decision of a regulatory authority that it had breached certain statutory provisions similar to the Chapter I and Chapter II Prohibition under the UK Competition Act 1998;

acted for the judicial managers of a Singapore company in proceedings which involved the issue of when a judicial manager is deemed to have adopted a contract under section 227I of the Companies Act; and

a cross border scheme of arrangement and compromise for a Malaysian company. The scheme took place concurrently in two jurisdictions, Singapore and Malaysia.

William graduated from the National University of Singapore with an LLB (Hons) degree in 1999. He was called to the Singapore Bar in 2000, passing the bar examinations in the top 20 of his year’s cohort. He joined Allen & Gledhill in June 2000.

 

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