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- 17 Mar 2023
Lyndon Choo
曹豪仁
Counsel
Lyndon is a Counsel with the firm and regularly acts for multinational corporations, state-owned entities, fund managers, and high net-worth individuals in complex corporate and commercial disputes. Lyndon also regularly acts alongside international and local law firms in international litigation and arbitration matters.
Lyndon’s practice spans a wide range of matters, including successfully resisting an asset recovery action in the Singapore High Court for a multi-million dollar debt, representing a venture capital fund manager in a dispute connected to an investment in an Indian tech start-up, and representing directors of a company to resist a S$16 million breach of directors’ duty claim brought by liquidators.
Prior to joining Providence Law Asia, Lyndon practised at a disputes boutique firm in Singapore and a tech-focused UK firm, where he was exposed to a range of practice areas including personal data protection, employment disputes, and professional negligence and malpractice.
Lyndon graduated from the Singapore Management University School of Law with an LLB (Hons.) and was placed on the Dean’s list in his last year in law school. During his time in law school, Lyndon was a moot court champion, representing his university in the Red Cross International Humanitarian Moot 2016 and the Leiden-Sarin International Air Law Moot Court Competition 2018, placing second on both occasions. Lyndon was also part of the team which emerged as the tournament champion of the Oxford Price Media Law Moot Court Competition 2018.
Lyndon was the winner of the YSIAC Essay Writing Competition 2020 with his piece in support of the use of remote hearings for arbitral proceedings before the SIAC.
Lyndon is fluent in English, Mandarin and Cantonese.
Admissions
- Advocate and Solicitor, Supreme Court of Singapore
Professional Experience
- Acted for a sanctioned Venezuelan state-owned entity in resisting an asset recovery action by a multi-national company for enforcement of an ICSID award of over U$378 million obtained against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela against the entity’s own assets. The action was dismissed.
- Acted for the directors of a Singapore-based co-working space start-up in resisting claims for breaches of directors’ duties brought by the liquidator of the company for claims of over S$16 million in the Singapore High Court.
- Acted for an Indian venture capital fund manager in resisting a multi-million dollar claim in the Singapore High Court connected to the investment in an Indian tech start-up brought by an Indian financial technology company.
- Acted for an individual in setting aside a subpoena issued by the Singapore High Court compelling the individual’s attendance at the hearing of a New-Zealand seated arbitration.
- Acted for a shareholder-director in resisting unjust enrichment claims brought by a company in respect of alleged excess dividend and director’s fees.
- Assisted in a SIAC arbitration commenced by a global telecommunications company against a Chinese information and communications technology company arising from global licence agreements and alleged violations of FRAND (Fair Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory) requirements.
- Acted for a Bangladeshi commodities trading company in a GAFTA arbitration involving claims against an Australian company for non-delivery of goods.
- Acted for the single largest shareholder of Electronic Cash and Payment Solutions (S) Pte Ltd, a start-up offering an integrated financial services technology platform to businesses and consumers in India, in resisting a winding up application brought by an alleged creditor. The Singapore High Court made determinations on novel points of law on the standing of shareholders to resist creditors’ winding up applications. See: Atlas Equifin Private Limited v Electronic Cash and Payment Solutions (S) Pte Ltd [2022] SGHC 258.
- Acted for a private trustee of a bankrupt residing in Australia in obtaining a letter of request from the Singapore High Court to seek the Australian Courts’ assistance in the performance of the private trustees’ duties.
- Acted for the shareholders of a payments services start-up based in Singapore in resisting a winding up application brought by a related creditor.
- Acted for a sanctioned Venezuelan state-owned entity in resisting an asset recovery action by a multi-national company for enforcement of an ICSID award of over U$378 million obtained against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela against the entity’s own assets. Succeeded in having the claim dismissed.
- Acted for the beneficiaries of a multi-million estate in contentious probate proceedings in resisting claims by the testator’s medically trained biological son.
- Acted for the Singapore Medical Council in various successful prosecutions of medical practitioners for professional misconduct, including the first local case of a provisionally registered doctor struck off the register for dishonesty.