“Clients appreciate the team’s ‘great resources; they are able to handle highly complex matters demanding a large team and great depth.’” Chambers Asia 2008

“A local leviathan, this firm has more than 60 lawyers engaged in disputes and can boast blue-chip clients in the banking and corporate arenas.” Chambers Global 2007

We have one of the largest litigation teams in Singapore, offering a full range of top quality services across a broad spectrum of contentious work. This includes banking, commercial contracts, shareholders' disputes and other corporate matters, commodities and futures, construction, media and entertainment, defamation, employment, family, insurance, insolvency, medical and professional negligence, probate, public and administrative, property, securities and trusts. Furthermore, we have an active corporate recovery and insolvency practice, which regularly acts for receivers, liquidators, banks, creditors and distressed companies. We also advise on settlement negotiation and alternative forms of dispute resolution. Many of our Partners and lawyers have extensive experience in the field of arbitration and are widely sought after in arbitrations both inside and outside of Singapore.

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Andrew Yeo

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Our arbitration team is heavily engaged in domestic and international arbitrations. Several of our lawyers are Fellows or Associates of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and act frequently, both as counsel and as arbitrators, in ICC, SIAC and UNCITRAL arbitrations, involving not only matters in Singapore, but elsewhere in the Asia Pacific region. Our expertise extends to disputes relating to Malaysia, China, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines and India. Our team has the capability to handle international arbitrations in any jurisdiction. We are also very familiar with other forms of ADR and will not hesitate to recommend these where they are more suited for the disputes at hand.

We also have a specialist team for construction and property arbitration and litigation. We work closely with Banking and Project Financing, Property Financing and Investments as well as Telecommunications, Energy and Infrastructure in advising clients on the construction and property aspects throughout the course of a project, from financing, regulatory clearance, documentation and project management to the eventual sale or release of the relevant project.

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Andrew Yeo
Edwin Tong

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Commercial & General Litigation

Our commercial litigation team actively engages in litigation in all aspects of commercial and general disputes.

Banking

Our banking litigation specialists within the team have acted at one time or another for all the major Singapore banks and most offshore banks with a presence in Singapore. The banking matters handled range from straightforward enforcement actions across the spectrum to complex recovery actions against domestic and foreign customers.

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Ang Cheng Hock
Edwin Tong

Commercial Crime

Our litigation team has one of Singapore’s leading white-collar crime practices. We have represented clients in several major complex fraud prosecutions. Our high profile matters include defending persons charged with corruption, criminal breach of trust and breaches of the Official Secrets Act.

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Ang Cheng Hock

Companies and Commercial

We have extensive experience in all aspects of corporate and commercial litigation, having advised and acted for clients in a variety of matters, ranging from shareholder disputes to litigation arising from the sale and supply of goods. Our lawyers are well-known for their capabilities and expertise in corporate disputes, having acted for directors accused of breach of their duties, as well as minority shareholders alleging oppression or unfair treatment.

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Ang Cheng Hock
Edwin Tong

Competition

Our competition law team has advised and acted successfully in probably the first competition litigation of its kind in Singapore. With the Competition Act coming into effect shortly, we see this as a growing and significant area.

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William Ong

Defamation

We have experience in dealing with various matters involving libel and slander, having handled the major defamation cases in Singapore in the last ten years. We advise both the local and international media on general matters of media law, as well as in contempt proceedings. Apart from editors of major newspapers, our clients include public figures in Singapore.

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Ang Cheng Hock

Employment

We advise and assist both employers and employees on all employment-related litigious matters, including contracts of employment, issues relating to the termination of employment and CPF contributions, income tax matters and duties owed between employer and employee.

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Chan Hian Young

Family, Probate and Trusts

We have a long tradition and wide experience of family matters, including divorce and separation, custody disputes, maintenance and division of family assets. We also advise and assist clients in a variety of trust-related matters, whether or not in a family context. Our trust specialists regularly advise on the creation of trusts, the duties and responsibilities of trustees and breaches by trustees of their trustee duties. We also assist on applications for the grant of probate, letters of administration, estate duty matters, the distribution of a deceased’s estate and the resolution of disputes arising between beneficiaries and creditors.

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Chan Hian Young
Bernice Loo

Insurance

Our team has considerable experience in dealing with insurance claims, in particular, liability insurance. Several of our lawyers sit on panels of advisers appointed by underwriters to deal with claims brought against professionals. We also deal with general insurance matters, ranging from motor accident claims to health and life assurance matters.

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Corina Song

Professional Negligence

We advise on all matters when negligence or alleged breaches of professional standards are in issue, including coroners' inquiries, disciplinary proceedings, civil suits and criminal proceedings. Our clients include professionals from various disciplines, including medical practitioners.

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Ang Cheng Hock
Edwin Tong

Securities and Futures

We regularly advise and act in matters involving insider trading and other securities and futures related offences, such as market manipulation or fraudulent misrepresentations. We also act for banks, brokers, investors and customers in relation to securities disputes.

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Ang Cheng Hock
Edwin Tong

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We have an active team specialising in construction and engineering disputes. Where such or any other disputes require arbitration or other forms of ADR, we harness our capabilities in Arbitration and ADR. We act for international and major Singapore construction companies, state authorities, consultants, and a broad spectrum of owners, including listed property developers, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, power and gas companies.

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Ho Chien Mien
Andrew Yeo

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Our corporate restructuring and insolvency practice covers both corporate and personal insolvencies. We act for and advise liquidators, judicial managers, receivers, managers and creditors on corporate restructuring programmes, litigation disputes and matters concerning the liabilities of directors or insolvent companies. Our clients primarily include a large number of liquidators, judicial managers, and receivers and managers from the major accounting firms. The Firm also acts for various creditors and directors of insolvent companies. Our insolvency practitioners also work closely with members of our Banking and Project Financing team in relation to the restructuring and rescheduling of corporate debt.

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Andrew Yeo
Andrew Chan

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Our international trade practice group advises and acts for clients on contentious as well as non-contentious matters relating to international sale of goods, trade financing and related banking matters, customs and other regulatory issues, guarantees, letters of credit, trade documentation, storage contracts and warehousing agreements.

Our general transportation practice group advises logistics companies, banks, carriers, passengers and cargo owners on all issues related to transportation, both civil and criminal, including pre- and post-shipment storage, transportation and delivery of goods, storage and carriage of dangerous cargo, advising on and drafting limitation and exclusion clauses, aviation and air carriage matters and aircraft repossession.

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Vivian Ang
Kenny Yap

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Our admiralty and shipping team deals with all aspects of maritime law, including claims and disputes relating to bills of lading, charterparties, cargo loss and damage, salvage, towage, death and personal injury, crew wages, collision, oil spillage and pollution, mortgage enforcements, shipbuilding and repair.

We represent clients in admiralty proceedings involving the arrest and release of ships, judicial sale of ships and disputes as to the proceeds of sale of a ship. We also advise on limitation actions and the constitution of limitation funds for loss of life and personal injury, loss or damage caused to property and pollution.

We deal with a wide variety of domestic and international arbitrations, as well as mediation, together with related matters, including staying of court proceedings and the enforcement of awards.

We also handle all aspects of marine and general insurance law in particular, matters relating to marine cargo, hull and machinery insurance. Our team has acted for underwriters in major insurance and re-insurance arbitration and litigation.

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Vivian Ang
Yap Yin Soon