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Mr Paul Loy

+65 6416 8255 paul.loy@wongpartnership.com View profile

Work Department

Specialist & Private Client Disputes Practice; White Collar & Enforcement Practice

Position

Partner- Specialist & Private Client Disputes Practice and the White Collar & Enforcement Practice.

Career

Active dispute resolution practice involving both court litigation and international arbitration. His main areas of practice include civil matters, with a focus on commercial and corporate disputes, as well as matters concerning white collar crime, defamation and fraud. Advises private and corporate clients, including multinational companies and government bodies, on a broad range of legal issues, including corporate governance, intellectual property, criminal, regulatory and employment matters.

Work Highlights

Some of the commercial disputes in which Paul has been involved in include acting for the following:

• A committee of noteholders and members of Laguna National Golf and Country Club in respect of their ongoing claim against the club for unpaid debentures totalling in excess of S$20 million, as well as a landmark representative action on behalf of over 200 successful appellants in a Court of Appeal case, in which the Court of Appeal allowed the tort and contract claims brought by the appellants to proceed as a representative action.
• A medical services company listed on the Singapore Exchange against allegations by a minority shareholder of a breach of director’s duties against its Chief Executive Officer, and successfully resisting the minority shareholder’s claims before both the High Court and the Court of Appeal.
• An oil and gas company in the successful defence of commercial claims brought in an arbitration held before a tribunal in England against a Swiss counterparty, which dispute also involved the successful defence of a concurrent application for a freezing injunction brought by the counterparty in the High Court of Singapore.

Where criminal issues are involved, some examples of the more significant matters that Paul acted in include the following:

• A top police officer who was at the time the Director of the Central Narcotics Bureau, Singapore in defence of charges of corruption involving allegations of accepting sexual favours in exchange for furthering the business interests of two information technology companies, and securing a rare acquittal; and successfully defending a CEO charged with engaging in commercial sex with a minor in relation to an online vice ring case.
• A high-profile businessman on against drug trafficking charges and obtaining an acquittal on the same.
• Representing the Singapore Land Authority in a civil claim in the High Court for recovery of over S$12 million against multiple defendants arising from what is believed to be the largest fraud committed against a governmental authority in Singapore since 1995.

Languages

English; Mandarin

Education

Admitted, Singapore Bar; University of Nottingham (LL.B., Hons.); National University of Singapore (Grad Dip Singapore Law)