Mr William Ong > Allen & Gledhill LLP > Singapore, Singapore > Lawyer Profile
Allen & Gledhill LLP Offices
ONE MARINA BOULEVARD
#28-00
SINGAPORE 018989
Singapore
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Mr William Ong
Work Department
Cybersecurity & Data Protection; International Arbitration; Litigation; Restructuring & Insolvency
Position
Co-Head of the Firm’s Litigation & Dispute Resolution Department
Career
William is the Co-Head of the Litigation & Dispute Resolution Department. His areas of practice encompass international arbitration, banking litigation, corporate insolvency and restructuring as well as corporate litigation.
William has substantial experience in banking litigation, financial and securities-related disputes, and regularly acts in disputes involving structured products, margin trading, valuations, guarantees and enforcement of security. He is also actively involved in representing clients in corporate disputes, such as shareholder and directors’ disputes as well as joint venture disputes.
He also practises in the field of licensing, distribution and franchise disputes, and they span different industries ranging from computer software to boiler technology to pharmaceutical products. William has special interest in the field of assessment of damages and valuation methodology, as he believes that most disputes would be ultimately concerned with damages and its assessment – he is familiar with the technical and legal aspects of this area which is valued by clients.
William has rendered expert opinions before the English courts and the courts of the People’s Republic of China.
William joined the Firm in 2000 after he was called to the Singapore Bar and has been a Partner since 2006.
Languages
English, Mandarin.
Memberships
Fellow, Singapore Institute of Arbitrators. Fellow, Insolvency Practitioners Association of Singapore.
Education
Graduated from the National University of Singapore with an LL.B. (Hons) degree in 1999.
Lawyer Rankings
Asia Pacific: Regional International Arbitration > Leading firms
Allen & Gledhill LLP has expertise in arbitrations linked to infrastructure, energy, construction, and engineering work, frequently handling multijurisdictional disputes. Practitioners within the team have extensive experience appearing in front of the SIAC and Asian International Arbitration Centre in Kuala Lumpur. The firm has a network of offices across Malaysia, Myanmar, Indonesia, Vietnam, and China – with a particularly impressive bench strength in the firm’s home city of Singapore – and works closely with specialist departments within the firm including an eminent fintech practice. Singapore-based Andrew Yeo and William Ong lead the practice that notably includes Stanley Lai SC, head of the intellectual property practice at the firm, Dinesh Dhillon, co-head of the international arbitration practice, and Vincent Leow, whose practice centres on complex banking, employment, and shareholder disputes.
Singapore > Dispute resolution: local firms
(Leading individuals)Allen & Gledhill LLP has substantially grown its dispute resolution practice over the last decade. The firm’s geographic growth across Southeast Asia and into China has led to a substantial increase in cross-border dispute engagements, including those before the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC). The firm traditionally acted for large Singapore corporates and financial institutions, and now has a much larger multinational client base. It remains especially active in restructuring and insolvency-related litigation, including cases linked to the Hin Leong scandal, along with white-collar crime, arbitration-related litigation and disputes connected to private wealth. It has two senior counsels in Stanley Lai SC, the head of intellectual property, and Jason Chan SC, who leads the white-collar crime team. Andrew Yeo and William Ong co-head the litigation and dispute resolution group, which includes Dinesh Dhillon, Vincent Leow, Tan Kai Liang and Tay Yong Seng.
Lawyer Rankings
- Dispute resolution: local firms Singapore
- Leading individuals Singapore > Dispute resolution: local firms
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Antitrust and competition: local firms
- Banking and finance: local firms
- Capital markets: equity and debt: local firms
- Capital markets: structured finance, derivatives and securitisation: Local firms
- Construction: Local firms
- Corporate and M&A: local firms
- Data protection and cyber security
- Dispute resolution: local firms
- Fintech and financial services regulatory: local firms
- Intellectual property: Local firms
- Investment funds: local firms
- Labour and employment: local firms
- Projects and energy: local firms
- Real estate: local firms
- Restructuring and insolvency: local firms
- Shipping: local firms
- Start-up and venture capital – Local firms
- Tax: local firms
- TMT: local firms
- White-collar crime - Local firms