Wei-Jin Lee
Director
Global
Lawyers
Keith Lim
Associate Director
Melvin Lum
Director
Keith Oh
Director
Michael Palmer
Managing Director
Lawrence Quahe
Managing Director
Sunil Sudheesan
Director, Head Criminal Department
Reuben Tan
Reuben is a Director in the firm’s litigation department, and graduated with First Class Honours in law from the University of Warwick. Reuben is also the resident director of our Hong Kong office.
Reuben has over a decade of experience in civil litigation and international arbitration, with an emphasis on commercial disputes, as well as defamation, employment and insolvency matters. He has acted as both lead and assisting counsel in a wide range of contentious matters at all levels of Singapore’s courts, as well as in multi-jurisdictional arbitrations. Reuben is also experienced in advising on regulatory and personal data protection issues.
Notable matters which Reuben has been involved in include:
\tActing for a US-incorporated group of companies in a claim involving a dispute over defective KN95 facemasks (reported in Dialectic PR LLC and another v Brilliante Resources International and another [2024] 4 SLR 165)
\tActing for distributors of electronic goods in pursuing suppliers for ‘missing trader fraud’ involving more than US$3M in purportedly fraudulent tax transactions.
\tActing for directors in an application for leave to bring a derivative action against them for negligence (reported in Ma Wai Fong Kathryn v Trillion Investment Pte Ltd and ors [2019] 1 SLR 1046 and Ma Wai Fong Kathryn v Trillion Investment Pte Ltd and ors [2020] 5 SLR 1374)
\tActing for contributories in opposing winding-up applications brought by a shareholder of 3 companies on just and equitable grounds (reported in Ma Wai Fong Kathryn v Trillion Investment Pte Ltd [2018] SGHC 88)
\tActing for the Claimant in a dispute under the rules of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre for the repayment of loans of US$4,000,000 which were made to the Respondents pursuant to agreements executed in Thailand;
\tActing for the liquidators of Ivy Lee Realty Pte Ltd in both the High Court and the Court of Appeal in respect of a challenge by a creditor to their decision to accept another creditor’s proof of debt, raising issues of moneylending and interest under the Moneylenders Act (reported in Evan Lim Industrial/Warehousing Development Pte Ltd v MWA Capital Pte Ltd and another [2018] SGCA 76)
\tActing for a junket company to recover monies unaccounted for by a former director of the company, in both the High Court and the Court of Appeal (reported in Alphire Group Pte Ltd v Law Chau Loon [2017] SGHC 297).
\tActing for bunker barge owners, after the collapse of O.W. Bunker, to defend claims by Phillips 66 International Trading Pte Ltd for alleged delivery of bunkers without production of bills of lading (reported in The “Star Quest” [2016] 3 SLR 128 and The “Luna” and another appeal [2021] 2 SLR 1054).
\tActing for a number of high-net-worth individuals to defend claims by Resorts World Sentosa Singapore in respect of credit and gaming (one of which reported in Resorts World at Sentosa Pte Ltd v Lee Fook Kheun [2018] 5 SLR 1039)
Apart from the above, Reuben is Legal Advisor to the Singapore Archery Association, and heads the monthly Community Legal Clinic held at the Queenstown Community Centre where he advises members of the community on a pro-bono basis.
Liam Kheng Tay
Director
Laurence Wee
Director
Christopher Woo
Managing Director
Michelle Woodworth
Director, Co-Head of Matrimonial Division
Khung Chye Yeo
Director
Soon Keong Yeo
Director, Co-Head of Matrimonial Division