Ms Jiamin Leow > WongPartnership LLP > Singapore, Singapore > Lawyer Profile

Ms Jiamin Leow

+65 6416 8136 jiamin.leow@wongpartnership.com View profile

Work Department

Commercial & Corporate Disputes Practice

Position

Partner- Commercial & Corporate Disputes Practice.

Career

Her practice involves a wide range of court and arbitration matters, ranging from commercial and corporate, cross-border, fraud, asset recovery, to intellectual property disputes. She is also fluent in Mandarin and regularly acts for Mandarin-speaking and Chinese clients.

Work Highlights

Matters of significance in which Jiamin has been involved in include acting/advising for the following:

• The directors of a Brazilian entity in a complex multi-party purported derivative action arising from its proposed issuance of bonds in the amount of US$500 million in Singapore. The parties to the dispute are also involved in various related proceedings including proceedings in Brazil and the U.S., as well as an ongoing ICC arbitration.
• A payroll company with regional operations against former employees who misappropriated its confidential information. The Singapore Court of Appeal, in a landmark decision finding in favour of the company, departed from the long-standing legal test for breach of confidence and set out a modified approach under Singapore law.
• One of Singapore’s largest clean energy companies with regional operations in defending against alleged patent infringement suits brought by a competitor. The reported judgments in this matter has re-shaped the interlocutory processes of patent litigation in Singapore, and includes a landmark decision by the Singapore Court of Appeal (full bench) finding that the High Court can hear patent revocation applications.
• A Singapore-headquartered global mobile game publisher in defending against an alleged copyright infringement suit in relation to an extremely popular multiplayer online mobile game.
• A Chinese mobile game developer in defending against oppositions to trademarks to be used in respect of an immensely popular multiplayer online battle arena mobile game with a monthly average of approximately 80 million players.

Awards & Accolades

Jiamin was mentioned in The Legal 500 – The Client’s Guide to the Asia Pacific Legal Profession in 2019, and IAM Patent 1000 – The definitive ‘go-to’ resource for world-class, private practice patent expertise in 2020.

Publications

• Special Update – Fraud and Asset Recovery: Cryptoassest; Guide to tracing, freezing and recovering stolen cryptoassets (March 2022)
• Q&A with Professor Simon Chesterman on Artificial Intelligence and Fraud & Asset Recovery (26 January 2022)
• CaseWatch – Singapore High Court Issues First Reported Decision in Dispute Arising from Circuit Breaker Measures (November 2021)
• Singapore Law Gazette – When is it Time to Pay the Piper? Responding to Ransomware Attacks: Key Issues and Risks (September 2021)

Languages

English

Memberships

Member, Cybersecurity and Data Protection Committee, Information Technology Committee, and Intellectual Property Committee of the Singapore Law Society; member, Asset Recovery Next Gen Committee.

Education

Admitted, Singapore Bar; Singapore Management University (J.D., Cum Laude); Nanyang Technological University (B. Eng, Hons.)