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Quahe Woo & Palmer LLC

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Quahe Woo & Palmer LLC brings a strong reputation for efficiently resolving complex, high-value disputes across sectors like finance, construction, tech, and IP, backed by a deep bench of seasoned litigators. The group is jointly headed by Michael Palmer, an expert in commercial disputes, employment, defamation, and sports law, where he notably serves on the Court of Arbitration for Sport; Christopher Woo draws on his dual qualification in Hong Kong and the UK to act in complex commercial, insolvency, and IP disputes before the Supreme Court; and Melvin Lum has extensive experience as a Singapore lawyer, excelling in aviation, telecoms, land reclamation, blockchain, banking and insolvency disputes.
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Testimonials

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  • ‘Highly effective disputes team that is experienced, personable and great value for the services provided.’

  • ‘Melvin Lum. A stellar lawyer who has a sharp legal mind but also commercially astute and highly strategic. Great client service as he keeps us informed and transparent in billing. It's a pleasure working with him.’

  • ‘Quahe Woo & partner is a niche and boutique firm which offers specialized legal services to well-heeled and extremely high net worth clients. They are focused on the needs of businessmen with substantial commercial cases and over the years, they have built up a highly formidable and effective team that can tackle the most complex and challenging problems. We have worked with QWP for more than a decade and have found them to be highly driven, very dependable to provide practical and sound solutions for our clients.' 

  • ‘Michael Palmer is not just gifted with excellent advocacy, but also the ability to identify the core issues of a case and come up with brilliant strategies and ideas on how to overcome or mitigate the clients' problems within a very short timeline. Michael has acquired a well-earned reputation as a formidable and respected counsel in the Singapore Bar. It is a pleasure to work with Michael, who is quick to respond to any query posed to him.' 

  • ‘This practice has very professional and experienced legal counsels that seek solutions to our challenges and collaborated very well with us, sometimes with very short timeline.'

  • ‘Michael Palmer and Melvin Lum, for their very pragmatic views and suggestion supporting our dispute resolution process, are really appreciated.’

Key clients

  • Riviv Technologies Pte Ltd
  • Lucrum Capital Pte Ltd
  • Alliance Petrochemical Investment (Singapore) Pte Ltd
  • Wan Sern Metal Industries Pte Ltd
  • Jiaxing Holdings Pte Ltd
  • Yun Onn Company Pte Ltd
  • UBS AG Singapore Branch
  • Java Asset Holdings Ltd
  • Chemical Industries (Far East) Limited
  • Sentosa Development Corporation
  • Henatenn Holdings Pte Ltd
  • Universal Group Holdings (Pte) Ltd

Work highlights

Act for Universal Group Holdings (Pte) Ltd (“UGH”) in defending claims commenced by two of Hin Leong Trading’s alleged creditors following Hin Leong Trading’s collapse.
Act for Java Asset Holding Ltd (“Java”) and UBS AG Singapore Branch (“UBS”) in pursuing various debts amounting to hundreds of millions arising from one David Sin (“Sin”) who gave personal guarantees as security for various facility agreements extended by Java and UBS to various companies that Sin was either a director or shareholder of.
Act as lead counsel for Riviv Technologies Pte Ltd in coordinating a multi-million dollar cross-border dispute in Thailand and Singapore.

Practice head

Christopher Woo; Michael Palmer; Melvin Lum