SINGAPORE Trends and Developments
Trends and Developments Contributed by: Swee Yen Koh, Joel Quek, Daniel Gaw and Chunlong Lin WongPartnership WongPartnership has one of the largest litigation and dispute resolution groups in the world, comprising eight specialist subgroups staffed by more than 160 lawyers and four senior counsels. Headquartered in Singapore, the firm has expertise across all aspects of enforcement work spanning the identification, preservation and realisation of assets. It regularly obtains interim and emergency injunctions, freezing, disclosure and search orders, and other ancillary relief to advance clients’ enforcement aims and is equally successful in resisting the same for clients. The firm
leverages its specialised practices to provide seam - less judgment-to-recovery representation in all situa - tions. As a full-service firm, WongPartnership is well positioned to manage complex asset recovery and enforcement challenges (such as blockchain technol - ogy and digital currencies) and has acted in numer - ous high-profile cryptocurrency disputes – as well as restructurings and insolvencies – through close collaboration with its regulatory and tax practices to craft holistic and multifaceted strategies tailored for clients.
Authors
Swee Yen Koh is head of international arbitration at WongPartnership, with expertise in complex, high-value and multi-jurisdictional disputes involving asset recovery, commodities, energy, fraud, infrastructure, international
Joel Quek is a partner in WongPartnership’s commercial and corporate disputes, international arbitration, and Vietnam practice groups. Joel has an active practice in court litigation before the Singapore
trade, joint ventures, transport and technology. She has extensive experience acting for and against states and state-owned entities, multinational corporations and high net worth individuals before the Singapore courts and in international commercial and investment arbitrations. Swee Yen is admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales and has rights of audience before the Dubai International Financial Centre courts. Ranked in Chambers Global, she is regarded as a go-to lawyer for cross- border asset recovery, fraud and commercial disputes, enforcement and setting-aside proceedings.
courts, often in notable disputes that are high-value and legally significant across multiple industries and sectors. He also has substantial experience in arbitration-related court proceedings and an active international arbitration and investment treaty arbitration practice. Joel is a member of the International Bar Association Arb40 steering committee, teaches trial advocacy at the National University of Singapore, and publishes widely in the areas of arbitration, civil procedure and commercial law.
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