Expert Legal Advice for Litigation & Arbitration

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Our firm has handled matters with our lawyer(s) being lead counsel at all levels in the State Courts, Family Court, Juvenile Court, High Court and the Court of Appeal, Military Courts, tribunals constituted by bodies such as clubs, the Malayan Racing Association (MRA), Strata Title's Board (STB), Singapore, Disciplinary Tribunals constituted under the Legal Profession Act, Singapore, Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) etc.

Our Managing Partner has worked with Queen's Counsel in London, New Zealand and Australia since 1996, Senior Counsel in Singapore and President's Counsel from Sri Lanka.

 Assisting counsel in early 1990s for Japanese claimant as contractor agent Indian state owned entity for construction of a power station in India in an ICC administered arbitration.

Acted as counsel for Claimant in a 2004 SIAC arbitration ARB No. 27/04 against a Netherlands Antilles respondent company claiming damages for breach of contract for the supply of military hardware that resulted in an award and successful enforcement of the award obtained.

Assisted a single arbitrator as secretary to the tribunal from commencement of arbitration in 2011 in an international contract/sale of goods claim involving steel/coils manufactured in Taiwan for delivery in Spain, under SIAC rules and governed by English law (SIAC Arbitration No. 112 of 2011) which went on for a five (5) day hearing in January 2013 in Singapore involving two (2) expert witnesses and assisted in writing the award. 

In 2013/2014, assisted sole arbitrator as secretary to the tribunal from commencement of arbitration in a SIAC Arbitration (SIAC Arbitration No.21 of 2013) involving an Indonesian oil company which was a subsidiary of British Petroleum PLC and a defaulting Indonesian purchaser and assisted in writing the award. 

Acting for a joint venture partner of a major steel cladding supplier owned by Mittal Steel for Marina Bay Sands (MBS) in an advisory capacity as well as advising in arbitration proceedings concerning a claim for damages against its joint venture partner concerning supply of materials and construction.

Acting for main contractors and subcontractors in building construction litigation in the Courts over the years as well as acting in an advisory capacity / drafting agreements holding a brief / advising a sub-contractor on an arbitration.

Assisted Chairman of the three (3) men Arbitral Tribunal in an international shipping arbitration and assisted in researching and writing of the majority award in an ad-hoc arbitration governed by HKAIC rules with one (1) dissenting award (Fremery v Mysore Sales).

Assisted arbitrator in a two (2) arbitrator panel in an ad-hoc arbitration concerning a shipping cargo dispute concerning a vessel commenced in 2014 involving Indian parties for which the arbitral panel was reconstituted halfway and which concluded in 2018. Advising main investor and a Malaysian listed company in 2015/2016 as regards two (2) US multimillion dollar disputes regarding investment agreements with SIAC arbitration clauses involving the sale & purchase of a tin company in Indonesia with licenses, plant, machinery and vessels as well as regards a separate but related dispute under an Indonesian tin smelting agreement with an SIAC arbitration clause.

Acted as lead counsel for two (2) China Respondent parties being shipping company/owner, based in Dalian in a claim by a Singapore shipping company listed on the main board in Singapore as regards a contractual and intellectual property licence dispute in SIAC Arbitration No. 49 of 2015 before a single arbitrator with two (2) Chinese law expert witnesses that proceeded for an expedited arbitration hearing on the merits on grounds including fraud for four (4) days in late 2015 as well as liaising with Chinese counsel regarding submissions/decision and appeal before the China Trademark Tribunal where client succeeded and assisting Chinese counsel in resisting arbitration enforcement proceedings of SIAC arbitral award in Dalian, China.

Instructed in 2016 as Singapore Counsel together with four (4) Sri Lankan counsel including a Presidents Counsel (PC) in an ICC arbitration with three (3) arbitrators seated in Singapore in ICC case No. 21266/CYK by a Sri Lankan State owned company concerning a dispute over a multimillion Euro contract granted to an Italian company by company appointees of a previous government of Sri Lanka regarding the interior design and fitting out of the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka and subsequently as lead counsel for the applicant in a challenge to the arbitral award at the seat in the High Court in Singapore in OS 1238/17 which came up for hearing in mid 2018 and is reported at (2018) SGHC 157.

Instructed as lead counsel in 2018 by a State owned company in Sri Lanka being suppliers of armed guards with weapons from a floating armoury off Sri Lanka to ships plying the horn of Africa, to set aside in the High Court in Singapore a default SIAC arbitration award (where the former Chief Justice of Singapore Chan Sek Keong dissented), where the High Court judge at first instance decided against the client reported at [2019] 4 SLR 995; (2018) SGHC 78, who appealed to the Court of Appeal in 2019 in CA 240/2019, where the appeal was allowed in client’s favour in May 2019 and the SIAC award set aside with costs in a landmark case in arbitration law in Singapore (reported as [2019] 2 SLR 131; (2019) SGCA 33). Issues in the proceedings included corruption/criminal proceedings against the former chairmen of both parties, three (3) former commanders of the Sri Lankan navy and two (2) Sri Lankan government ministers, one (1) of whom was President of Sri Lanka till 2022, Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
 

With a deep understanding knowledge in this area, time is of essence here as the accident victim would have suffered physical injuries and emotional trauma.  We work hand in hand with the victim and do our  best to ensure that our client gets his rightful compensation.

With quality service and affordable fee package, our team of lawyers help you to obtain divorce in a smooth manner, wherever possible, unless it is a acrimonious matter and help you in the ancillary matters such as custody of children, distribution of assets,  both movable and immovable property and help you in every step of the way.