Civil & Commercial Litigation Lawyers

Some of our Commercial, Civil & Arbitration Cases

• Acting in protracted and highly complex litigation in the Singapore High Court of one of the largest corporate bond defaults in emerging markets history. The claim was worth US$300 million and involved legal experts from the US and Indonesia. The case was heard in 3 different countries, and the parties litigated all the way up to the Supreme Court of New York, the Supreme Court of Indonesia and the Singapore High Court.
• Advising the leading global operator of water services in employment matters and general corporate advice for its Asia Pacific office.
• Acting for a government statutory board in property disputes and to obtain possession of property from errant tenants.
• Acting for all 8 defendants to successfully defend a US$27 million multi cause of action claim for breach of contract, breach of agency and conspiracy to defraud. The matter reached the Court of Appeal, which upheld our arguments.
• Acting for one of the largest property agency companies in Singapore claims against some of its former employees and agents for poaching its staff and for breach of contract.
• Defending former students in a defamation suit brought by a well- known options trading trainer.
• Acting for a US-listed MNC in litigation over the construction of a wafer fab plant in Singapore.
• Acting for DBS Bank in the recovery of credit card and housing loans.
• Acting for the Nominee to successfully seek bankruptcy protection under the Bankruptcy Act for two directors of a Singapore listed company. This allowed the directors to resolve and restructure their personal liabilities of about $51 million arising out of corporate guarantees they had executed in connection with the company’s debts.
• Advising a major international hotel chain in their dispute against their Singapore landlord.
• Acting in the Singapore High Court in litigation with an international construction and engineering company over the construction of a plant. The case was one of the first in Singapore to involve electronic discovery of documents stored in servers.