Corporate & Commercial
Infrastructure, Energy and Transport
- Represented the main contractors in termination claims against the concessionaire of a multi-billion-dollar airport reconstruction project for an Indian Ocean republic. The client is a prominent South-Asian infrastructure conglomerate with a track record of airport construction projects in India, Philippines, and Turkey.
- Acted for a globally recognised specialist marine subcontractor against a North Asian main contractor in connection with a novel project for the installation of submarine cables under challenging soil and subsea conditions, on a dispute relating to multiple intertwining delay and contractual issues.
- Acted for a Myanmar-based corporation in an ICC arbitration commenced by a subsidiary of the largest cement conglomerate in South-East Asia in relation to claims exceeding USD385 million arising from purported breaches of an alleged joint venture agreement between to develop a cement factory, and manufacture and distribute cement in the region.
- Acted for the main contractors, who were being sued alongside a silo designer and an accredited checked, in an 80-day multi-party construction and engineering arbitration in Singapore concerning the partial collapse of Southeast Asia’s tallest multi-cell cement silo. This was a technically challenging case involving complex civil and structural engineering issues addressed by an international panel of 14 expert witnesses.
- Acted in a 25-day construction arbitration under ICC Rules in Bangkok between a Malaysian boilermaker and a prominent Thai mill owner in respect of a dispute concerning construction defects in a palm oil refinery in Thailand.
- Acted in a SIAC arbitration in respect of claims exceeding USD150 million against a sovereign government for repudiating a 50-year joint venture agreement for the development of a lagoon, with claims for aborted reclamation and infrastructure development works.
- Represented the subsidiary of YTL Corporation in an arbitration and various adjudications under the Security of Payment Act involving a claim of over S$9 million, involving over 60 heads of claim.
Emergency Arbitrations
- Acted as counsel in an Emergency Arbitration against a $83 million claim brought by a high-profile businessman and art dealer, arising from an aborted sale and purchase agreement relating to a freeport, which involved novel issues on whether the “alter-ego” and “group of companies” doctrines could be invoked to found jurisdiction over non-signatories to an arbitration agreement.
- Acted as counsel in an Emergency Arbitration in connection with the collapse of an investment scheme that had attracted substantial retail investor funds on the promise of lucrative guaranteed returns from financing housing projects in Brazil.