TSMP Law Corporation

Employment & Labour, Litigation

Partner, Head of Employment & Labour

Ian heads TSMP’s Employment & Labour team and is a partner in its Dispute Resolution practice, practising both international arbitration and corporate and commercial litigation. Ian specialises in complex transactional, advisory and contentious employment and immigration law, particularly on issues of non-competition, dismissal, discrimination, harassment, retirement & re-employment, industrial relations, and data protection and confidentiality. He counts among his clients multinationals including Bombardier, Danone, IBM, Marsh and Samsung, as well as C-Suite executives.

Ian is the lead author for the Singapore chapters of the international publications The Employment Law Review and Getting the Deal Through – Labour & Employment, as well as the Employment Contracts chapter of Law Relating to Specific Contracts in Singapore.

English, Chinese (Mandarin)

·       Magistrate of the Small Claims Tribunals, State Courts, 2011–2022

·       Chairman, Law Society Civil Practice Committee, 2017–2019 (Member, 2006–2013 and 2020–2022; Vice-Chair, 2014–2016)

·       Co-Chair, Law Society Litigation Conference Committee, 2018–2022 (Member, 2013–2015; Deputy Chairman, 2016–2017)

·       Member, Disciplinary Tribunal Panel of the Supreme Court of Singapore, 2020–present

·       Lay person on the Investigation and Disciplinary Panel of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA), 2016–present

LL. B. (Hons), National University of Singapore

Active in pro-bono and charitable work, with a particular focus on migrant worker welfare; snowboarding and football.