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Construction
Singapore
Lynette Chew, Kelvin Aw, Asya Jamaludin, Grace Lu & Andy Yeo
CMS handles a range of contentious and non-contentious employment matters. The team is regularly instructed on multi-jurisdictional projects, coordinating cross-border advice and acting as sole international counsel for clients in the region. Lakshanthi Fernando leads the team, with expertise across jurisdictions and a specialism in contentious issues, such as breach of restrictive covenants, employee wrongdoing, internal investigations, contentious hires and dismissals, and complex retrenchment.
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Testimonials
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‘Lakshanthi Fernando – Always a pleasure to work with Lakshanthi. She is very professional and able to deliver top-quality work with a good turnaround time.’
Key clients
- A+E Networks
- Acciona
- Air Liquide
- Astrea Bioseparations
- Baillie Gifford
- Birkenstock
- Cegal
- Cendyn
- Delivery Hero
- ISG
- Kingspan PLC
- Mondi Plc
- Montran Corporation
- NCR
- NomuPay
- Nuvei
- Panoptyc Inc
- Sanofi
- u-blox AG
- Voestalpine AG
Work highlights
Advising a leading manufacturing company and its Singapore subsidiary on a sophisticated fraud involving deepfake impersonations of senior executives and a complex scam which resulted in unauthorised fund transfers by a senior employee from Singapore to Hong Kong, coordinating a cross-border investigation and internal disciplinary action.
Supporting reinsurance brokers based in Singapore and London, in a complex cross-border investigation into suspected premium inflation by senior employees involving Indonesian and Thai insurance policies with clients, advising on local regulatory obligations, employment termination/disciplinary issues involving senior management executives, and complex forensic financial analysis.
Advising a large South Korean conglomerate following a high-profile takeover and dismissal of C-suite executives, advising the company on risks of wrongful dismissal claims and multimillion-dollar claims relating to salaries and bonuses.
Practice head
Lakshanthi Fernando