Allen & Gledhill LLP is at the pinnacle of the labour and employment field, bringing extensive expertise and resources to contentious and non-contentious matters. It also offers wide-ranging experience in health and safety issues, including workplace injury claims and industrial accidents. Along with its steady pipeline of major advisory and transactional engagements, it is also at the forefront of investigations and large-scale disputes, notably appearing in a recent test case on enforcing employee performance ratios. Kelvin Wong and Sanjiv Rajan, who is recognised for both contentious and non-contentious engagements, co-head the employment, health and safety team in Singapore, which includes highly impressive employment litigation specialist Tay Yong Seng , who is ‘a match for any silk’. Christine Tee is also noted for employment disputes. Vincent Leow has left the firm.
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‘Tay Yong Seng and his team are always willing to assist and give prompt and practical advice in all labour-related matters.’
‘Great team; very good legal skills and commercially dynamic.’
‘Tay Yong Seng has a razor sharp legal mind and is a very powerful advocate. He combines a brilliant Oxford mind with exceptional trial expertise. He is an absolutely first rate litigator, one of the strongest court advocates of his generation. Thoroughly impressed by his legal brilliance and tireless dynamism. A match for any silk.’
‘Tay Yong Seng is the best employment litigation lawyer in Singapore. I have engaged his team on many occasions and he has won the resulting litigation 100% of the time. Extremely intelligent, Oxford educated, with an encyclopaedic knowledge of the law and legal practice.’
‘Tay Yong Seng is a phenomenal lawyer. His understanding of the law and legal process is second to none. And the proof is in his extraordinary success rate.’
‘The labour and employment team at Allen & Gledhill is the best in Singapore. The team has never let me down in terms of understanding of the law and legal processes. I have always had a highly satisfactory outcome.’
‘Tay Yong Seng is especially great in employment and litigation case management, smart flexible thinking and strong fighting spirits. He is the lawyer to ask for advice on the most important case.’
‘The team is experienced and able to handle the work with much practical advice and considerations. Prompt and good service with attention to detail.’
Work highlights
- Acted for BGC in a High Court test case on enforcing employee performance ratios.
- Acted for an employer and its insurer in a claim brought by an employee for a workplace injury.
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Leading partners
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Next generation partners
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Practice head
Sanjiv Rajan; Kelvin Wong
Other key lawyers
Tay Yong Seng; Christine Tee