Mr Joel Quek > WongPartnership LLP > Singapore, Singapore > Lawyer Profile

Mr Joel Quek

+65 6416 8124 joel.quek@wongpartnership.com View profile

Work Department

Commercial & Corporate Disputes Practice

Position

Partner- Commercial & Corporate Disputes Practice.

Career

Experienced in in litigation and arbitration, involving commercial, corporate, shareholder and employment disputes across a range of sectors including energy, commodities, finance, transport, construction and healthcare.

Work Highlights

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

• Acting in various investor treaty arbitrations and court proceedings both for and against States, including for the Independent State of Papua New Guinea in an ICSID arbitration with the Digicel group over tax claims of US$100 million, and against Laos PDR in investment treaty claims concerning the expropriation of a cement production enterprise serving China’s Belt and Road initiative.
• Acting in various complex and high value commercial disputes before the Singapore Courts, including for the Independent State of Papua New Guinea in proceedings concerning the management of US$1.5 billion of assets, the founder of Mustafa Centre, an iconic retail and tourist landmark in Singapore, in multiple minority oppression suits in relation to the operation and management of the business’ holding company, the former CEO of Noble Group Limited for unpaid benefits in excess of S$48 million, which gave rise to novel and complex issues on penalties and the exercise of contractually agreed decision-making powers by employers, and for a petrochemical wholesale company which acted as an intermediary in credit sleeve arrangements over the enforceability of circular chain transactions and alleged sham contracts.
• Acting in various international commercial arbitrations, including for a listed Korean engineering and construction company in an SIAC arbitration against a Korean engineering conglomerate in a dispute concerning the construction of gas turbine power plants in Iraq, and for a Vietnamese individual in an SIAC arbitration against a BVI-incorporated real estate investment company headquartered in Hong Kong in a dispute over an investment in an office building in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City.
• Acting in various arbitration-related court proceedings, including for a NASDAQ-listed travel company to set aside and resist enforcement of multimillion-dollar SIAC arbitral awards, and an Uzbekistan oil and gas company to set aside a multimillion-dollar ICC arbitral award.

Publications

• Atkin’s Court Forms (Singapore), Defamation

Languages

English

Education

Admitted, Singapore Bar; University College London (LL.B., Hons.); University of Cambridge (LL.M.)