Commercial Litigation and International Arbitration

• A Singaporean company and its CEO: Defending a USD 230 million multi-jurisdictional claim for deceit, fraud and conspiracy in relation to certain investments made by the plaintiff into the client’s parent company (a major Thai listed company). The matter resulted in, among other things, a leading Singapore Court of Appeal decision on the conditions for granting a freezing injunction after judgment is issued: see JTrust Asia Pte Ltd v Group Lease Holdings Pte Ltd and others [2021] SGCA 26.
• Confidential Client: Acting for an Italian blockchain investment company in a USD 8 million SIAC arbitration involving issues of whether a clause confers a party a unilateral right or discretion to terminate an agreement, and alleged violations of US Securities Laws by decentralised cryptocurrency exchanges.
• Confidential Client: Representing a majority shareholder of a medico-diagnostic multinational company in a SIAC arbitration in a dispute with its minority shareholder, concerning issues of alleged minority oppression and share valuation.
• Confidential Client: Acting for a Statutory Board in relation to claims of breach of confidence in connection with a popular exhibition hosted in Singapore.

White-Collar Crime, Fraud and Investigations

• Confidential Client: Acting as defence counsel for a Singaporean businessman charged with allegedly orchestrating Singapore’s largest ever Ponzi scheme involving almost SGD 1.5 billion in a nickel trading scheme.
• Confidential Client: Defending a trading firm charged with supplying luxury goods to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in violation of the United Nations Act.
• Confidential Client: Acting for a Statutory Board against multiple persons who perpetrated fraud on multiple government agencies in obtaining funding for public events.
• Confidential Client: Acted for a multinational media company to successfully obtain and execute a search (Anton Pillar) order against a former employee to uncover the extent of data theft and corporate espionage, as well as obtaining an injunction restraining the former employee from joining a competitor firm.

Insurance

• QBE (Singapore) Insurance Pte Ltd and MS First Capital Pte Ltd: Acting for insurers in landmark insurance proceedings in the High Court and Court of Appeal involving the first case in Singapore of business interruption claims arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Confidential Client: Advising insurers on claims by contractors following the collapse of an uncompleted section of the Pan-Island Expressway in 2017.
• Law Society of Singapore: Acting for insurers under the Law Society Professional Indemnity Scheme in various claims against lawyers and law firms.

Employment

• Confidential Client: Acting for the founder and former CEO of a Singaporean FinTech start-up involving claims of constructive dismissal and shareholders’ dispute.
• Various multinational companies: Advising on issues such as breach of confidential information, data theft, wrongful dismissal, non-competition and non-solicitation clauses and others, as well as on proceedings before the Tripartite Alliance for Dispute Management (TADM), Employment Claims Tribunal (ECT), and Ministry of Manpower under the Industrial Relations Act.