The Practice
The Firm is a full service practice, with the ability to advise on all aspects of the law. Its key areas of practice include:
Dispute
Resolution
The partners of the Firm collectively have been involved in all aspects of litigation practice, having argued cases in the Court of Appeal, the High Court, the Subordinate Courts, the Family Court as well as before the Strata Titles Board. The Firm has over the years built up a reputation not just in general commercial litigation and arbitration, but also in the specialist litigation areas of the law.
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The experience of the partners includes:
? Debt Recovery
? Landlord and tenant disputes
? Management corporation disputes
? Hire-purchase, leasing and financing,
? Employment and immigration,
? Insolvency, including winding up, judicial management, bankruptcy
? Intellectual property, including copyright, trademark registration and disputes
? Personal injuries and accidents
? Company law disputes, including director and shareholder claims
? Securities
? Criminal Litigation
? Probate and administration, including estate disputes, division of property etc
? Insurance disputes
? Property disputes
? Family law disputes, including divorce, custody, maintenance
? Accident and Workmen Compensation Claims - click here - How To Make A Claim In Accident
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Corporate & Commercial (Including Tax)
The Firm has a diverse corporate practice that handles companies in a wide spectrum of industries. The firm is able to provide a complete and strategic service to local and foreign corporates and multinationals. We have assisted corporations in establishing and structuring business ventures. Apart from giving strategic advice, we are involved in advising on regulatory and compliance issues, including corporate governance and risk management, and providing corporate secretarial and director nominee services.
Our key areas of practice include the following:
? Joint venture structuring and drafting
? Sale & Purchase of Shares
? Sale & Purchase of Businesses
? Hire-purchase and Financing
? Guarantees
? Agency & Distribution agreements
? Director Nominee Services
? Corporate Secretarial Services
? Incorporation of Singapore companies, businesses, societies, unincorporated associations
? Handling corporate secretarial duties, including registry filings, preparing resolutions etc
? Incorporation of foreign companies
? Registered office services
? Tax & Revenue, including stamp duty, GST (Value-added tax), tax planning, estate duty, and wealth management.
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Employment & Immigration
The Firm has a particular focus on employment matters, having acted for local and foreign employers and employees on their rights, duties and obligations. We provide specialized employment and immigration law advice, studying issues from both the employer and employee perspective.
? Drafting and reviewing employment contracts
? Advising employers on their rights, duties and obligations under legislation and common law
? Advising employees of their rights
? Collective Agreements
? Employment Pass Applications
? Work Permit Applications
? Health & Safety issues, including concerns under the Factories Act, the Employment Act etc
? Immigration
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Property Transactions, Including Conveyancing
The Firm sees the provision of property related services as an essential service to the clients it services as this is an area which is close to the individual and or company and whether he / it is buying a residential or commercial property. We have been involved in a number of property transactions ranging from leases to sale and purchase, and extending to private property (including condominiums, landed, commercial etc) to HDB properties and JTC leases. Our experience extends to the following types of transactions:
? Conveyaning
? Sale and purchase of residential and commercial property
? Sale and purchase of aircrafts
? Sale and purchase of ships
? Refinancing
? Redemptions
? Restructuring
? Leases, including JTC leases
? Tenancies
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Insolvency & Bankruptcy, Including Banking
Another substantial part of the firm's practice is in advising our clients on insolvency matters. The partners of the firm have considerable experience is this specialized area of dispute resolution. Their experience extends to:
? Winding-up
? Bankruptcy
? Schemes of arrangement
? Judicial management
? Receivership
We also advice on banking-related issues such as secrecy under the Banking Act, compliance and regulations, bank-customer relationships, terms and conditions, procedures, as well as rights and potential liabilities in all types of banking transactions, including guarantees.
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Wills, Probate & Administration
The Firm believes that early estate planning is an essential part of life, and to this end provides advice on estate planning, including drafting of appropriate wills. The experience of the Firm in this regard crosses jurisdictions, having assisted clients from outside of Singapore. As a corollary to drafting of wills and estate planning, the Firm also assist with wealth management. For completeness, the Firm also handles probate and administration matters.
The practice extends to the following:
? Estate planning
? Wills drafting - click here: Making A Will
? Obtaining the Grant of Probate or Administration in contested and uncontested probate matters
? Division of property
? Estate Duty
? Estate disputes
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Intellectual Property
The intellectual capital of any organisation or individual is an important asset that must be safe guarded. The Firm thus takes a serious view of ensuring protection for your intellectual capital. To this end, the firm handles trademarks registration and where those rights are violated, the Firm actively engaging in litigation to protect that right. The key areas of the Firm's intellectual property practice extends to:
? Trademarks Registration and disputes
? Copyright disputes
? Passing Off actions
? E-commerce agreements
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Family
The Firm handles a number of family matters on a regular basis. The key partner in charge has experience handling contested family disputes, including custody and maintenance, in the High Court and Court of Appeal of Singapore (before the creation of the Family Court). The practice also handles adoption cases.
The key aspects of the practice covers:
? Divorces - both contested and uncontested
? Maintenance for children, spouse
? Custody and Access issues, involving custody within Singapore and across jurisdictions
? Division of matrimonial property
? Adoption
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