Mr Shengyou, Edwin Chia > CNPLaw LLP > Singapore, Singapore > Lawyer Profile

Mr Shengyou, Edwin Chia

+65 6349 8732 echia@cnplaw.com View profile

Work Department

Dispute Resolution

Position

Partner

Career

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Edwin’s experience is in litigation and arbitration proceedings, and estate planning.

He has experience in a diverse range of matters (including disputes between shareholders / joint venture partners), and has acted as lead counsel in disputes concerning equity and trust (involving resulting trust and common intention constructive trust), contentious probate, employment matters and in disciplinary proceedings (as prosecuting counsel). In the area of estate planning, he has extensive expertise advising on issues concerning Wills, application for Grant of Probate / Letters of Administration (including foreign domiciled deceased), and Lasting Power of Attorney.

Edwin was listed in the 2020 edition of Singapore’s 21 most influential lawyers aged 40 and under by the Singapore Business Review. Additionally, he was named as one of the SAF NSmen of the Year in 2022.

His notable experience includes acting as lead counsel where his clients successfully argued that the surviving joint owner of a commercial property was holding the said property on resulting trust on their behalf, before the General Division and the Appellate Division of the High Court, and the Court of Appeal. This matter received widespread media coverage.

Effectively bilingual, he has delivered seminars and webinars (in English and Mandarin) to and/or through various organisations, financial institutions, and news media on topics ranging from debt recovery to estate planning.

Edwin has been with the firm since January 2011, when he joined the firm as a practice trainee. He was made a partner at the firm in 2018. Some of Edwin’s notable cases and reported judgements include:

1. Then Khek Khoon and another v Arjun Permanand Samtani and another [2012] 2 SLR 451: Application to restrain a law firm from acting for the counterparty
2. Wong Swee Hor v Tan Jip Seng and others [2015] 1 SLR 929: For a declaration that one is a lawful wife pursuant to section 181 of the Women’s Charter
3. Jiangsu Overseas Group Co Ltd v Concord Energy Pte Ltd and another matter [2016] 4 SLR 1336: Applications to set aside arbitral awards issued by SIAC
4. Ong Bee Dee (executor of the estate of Ong Tuan Seng, deceased) v Ong Bee Chew and others [2017] 3 SLR 579: Successfully acted for clients in defending a claim involving allegations of misrepresentation, breach of fiduciary duties, breach of trust, constructive trust, resulting trust, common intention constructive trust, non est factum, undue influence, conspiracy by unlawful means, and minority oppression under Section 216 of the Companies Act. The High Court’s decision was subsequently upheld by the Court of Appeal.
5. Acting for a Hong Kong company in various proceedings (including applications for injunction and stay of Court proceedings in favour of arbitration) against subsidiaries of a Singapore listed company, in a claim involving shares worth approximately S$600 million

Languages

English, Mandarin

Memberships

Edwin is a member of the Law Society of Singapore and the Singapore Academy of Law.

Education

LLB (Hons), National University of Singapore, 2010