Joint Managing Partner
CurrentDescribed by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific as “‘impressive and clearly knows his way around the Singapore courts’”, I have acted for international clientele in a wide spectrum of corporate and commercial litigation. I have also been engaged in some of the most significant cross-border insolvency and restructuring matters in Singapore.I have been consistently ranked as a Recommended Lawyer for Dispute Resolution, and Restructuring and Insolvency by leading independent legal directories such as The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, Chambers Asia-Pacific, Asialaw Profiles, and The Best Lawyer.A selection of my experience includes:(a) acting for the liquidators in relation to the investigations and potential action (including claims of audit negligence) against the former auditors and officers of Hyflux Ltd, a well-known water treatment company in respect of a public-private service concession;(b) representing a working group of bank lenders comprising approximately S$930 million of the unsecured debt of Hyflux Limited, in the well-publicised restructuring, judicial management and subsequent liquidation of the Hyflux Group;(c) representing Malayan Banking Berhad before the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC) in a dispute with Barclays Bank PLC, involving SWIFT payments. The case is the first of its kind in the common law world, involving novel issues of banking law relating to the allocation of risk/liability in the area of cross-border funds transfers: see the decision in Malayan Banking Bhd v Barclays Bank PLC [2019] 4 SLR 109. The SICC’s decision has ramifications on the jurisprudence and practice of bank payments around the world; and(d) representing one of Singapore’s largest banks, United Overseas Bank Ltd (UOB) in a widely reported multi-million dollar intellectual property dispute involving a currency conversion system – Dynamic Currency Conversion for Card Payment Systems, which spanned more than a decade.
