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Baker McKenzie Wong & Leow

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The team at Baker McKenzie Wong & Leow supports clients on the full spectrum of employment mandates, with expertise encompassing contracts, disputes, arbitrations and redundancies across the Asia Pacific area, as well as internal investigations and whistleblowing. Celeste Ang focuses on contentious issues, representing employers in courts, arbitrations and mediations in matters including dismissal, investigations, breach of fiduciary duties and enforcement of restrictive covenants. Kelvin Poa covers the non-contentious side of the practice, with experience in drafting, negotiating and advising on employment contracts, separation agreements and termination of employment.
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Testimonials

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  • ‘Our company has worked with various law firms, but Baker McKenzie Wong & Leow stand out with their diverse and very wide network across the region – this is a great benefit to our company especially given the multiple locations we have in APAC. We are able to obtain collaborated employment legal advice for all our locations through one main source of contact which makes things so much more efficient. The lawyers' in-depth knowledge and solid expertise are also highly advantageous and helpful to clients.’

  • ‘Practical advice and market knowledge.’

  • ‘The team is pragmatic and thoughtful, always positioning their advice so that their client's best interests are served (often going beyond the question asked). The Bakers employment practice is strong globally, and their network means that local advice is always given with a global mindset. Bakers utilise AI based on our playbooks, provide innovative spend tracking, and always invest in secondees.’

Work highlights

Acting on labour arbitrations commenced in China against the client’s former employees who had misappropriated the client's confidential information, as part of a global strategy to resist poaching by a competitor.
Acting on a cross-border investigation arising from a whistleblower report by an employee in respect of alleged breaches of internal policies by their team in respect of financial reporting and procurement.
Advising a client on an APAC-wide redundancy exercise. The client had plans to downsize in APAC and to sell certain assets to a distributor within the region. All APAC employees were affected by this decision – some were to be made redundant and some were to be rehired by the distributor.

Practice head

Celeste Ang; Kelvin Poa

Other key lawyers

Pradeep Nair