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Ms Lay Theng Kua

+65 6517 3788 laytheng.kua@wongpartnership.com View profile

Work Department

Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group; Infrastructure, Construction & Engineering Practice; Malaysia Practice.

Position

Partner – Infrastructure, Construction & Engineering and Malaysia Practices.

Career

Lay Theng’s area of practice focuses on advising parties in the construction industry for the entire life cycle of projects. This encompasses front-end/transactional work such as drafting, reviewing, negotiating and advising on all standard forms of building contracts and other related agreements in the building industry; project advisory work during the execution of the project and contentious work arising from the project especially in arbitration (both international and domestic), mediation and litigation.

Work Highlights

Matters of significance in which Lay Theng has been involved in include acting for the following:

• A major contractor who is one of three members within a joint venture consortium which was awarded the main contract of approximately S$1.5 billion in respect of the development and construction of the Integrated Waste Management Facility by the National Environment Agency in Singapore (the “Project”) including review of the contract agreements and advice on contractual claims. The client is engaged to carry out project management as well as civil, structural and landscaping works in the Project.
• Asplenium Land Pte. Ltd., the employer of a condominium project in disputes with its terminated main contractor in arbitration and various court proceedings including a landmark Court of Appeal decision which upheld the enforceability of a clause restricting the employer’s ground to restrain a call on a performance bond to fraud only.
• A subcontractor in a dispute with a joint venture partner and obtained a court order to restrain statutory adjudication proceedings commenced by the JV partner for a claim in excess of S$355 million.
• A developer on various aspects of its project (both transactional and contentious) to reclaim and develop four islands in the Maldives into resorts to be operated by various luxury hotel chains and a staff campus worth US$500 million.
• A leading EPC contractor in its construction of a US$1.5 billion power plant and port facility in Bangladesh.
• A main contractor in its joint venture with other contractors in the construction of Tuas Terminal Finger Pier 3 valued over S$1.4 billion.

Awards & Accolades

Lay Theng is a recommended lawyer in The Legal 500 – The Client’s Guide to the Asia Pacific Legal 2021 for Construction.

Publications

• Chambers Global Practice Guides – Public Procurement and Government Contracts 2020

Languages

English, Malay, Bahasa Indonesia.

Memberships

Member, Society of Construction Law; Fellow of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb); Fellow of Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (FSIArb).

Education

Admitted, Singapore Bar; English Bar; Malaysian Bar; University of Leicester, UK (LL.B., Second Class (Upper
Division) Honours); National University of Singapore (LL.M.); Middle Temple (Barrister-at-Law).