Dentons Rodyk successfully defended Group Lease Holdings (GLH) and Mitsuji Konoshita (MK) in a High Court trial where JTrust Asia Pte Ltd (JTA) sued our client for alleged fraudulent misrepresentations and conspiracy in relation to certain investments made by JTA into GLH’s parent company, Group Lease Public Co Ltd (“GL”), and claimed more than US$230 million in damages. The month-long High Court trial was heard in October 2019 and the court found that JTA failed in its claims for deceit and conspiracy against GLH and MK. Consequently, JTA’s claims against our clients and the other defendants were dismissed entirely.

The Dentons Rodyk team was led by Senior Partners Lawrence Teh and Edric Pan, along with team members Senior Partner Melvin See, Partner Melissa Thng, Senior Associate Chia Huai Yuan and Associates Elias Arun and Sean Sim.

About Dentons Rodyk

Dentons Rodyk is one of Singapore's biggest law firms and part of the world’s largest, with a team of around 200 lawyers offering clients a full suite of legal services necessary to do business locally and globally. With over 160 years of establishment, consistently ranked highly in leading publications, we pride ourselves on providing the highest quality advice to our clients while maintaining strong working relationships with key public sector agencies and leading organisations in the private sector. Our combination with global law firm Dentons, makes us part of the world’s largest law firm with more than 12,500 professionals in over 160 locations in more than 80 countries.

Designed to be different, Dentons Rodyk can help you grow, protect, operate and finance your business. Our polycentric and purpose-driven approach, together with our commitment to inclusion, diversity, equity and ESG, ensures we challenge the status quo to stay focused on what matters most to you.

The first global pan-ASEAN law firm, Dentons ASEAN has an established history in Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Vietnam and Singapore and will continue to grow our presence through combinations with exceptional local firms across the ASEAN region and help clients navigate change wherever they are located.

In the new dynamic decade, clients continue to be confronted with complex scenarios and want to work with a purpose-driven law firm that has the experience and confidence to help them thrive at wherever they are located. Through our combinations with firms that are leaders in their respective communities and local markets, along with the partner firms in Dentons’ Nextlaw Referral Network, Dentons is ideally positioned to support our clients everywhere in ASEAN and around the globe.