The team at TSMP Law Corporation prides itself in handling the whole bandwidth of regulatory, transactional, advisory, investigative, and contentious work. The practice acts mainly for financial institutions, multinationals and large Singapore corporates, but also acts for C-Suite and executive-level individual employees. Ian Lim leads the practice, overseeing litigation and the employment aspects of M&A.
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‘The team has a strong employment practice and understands how to translate Singaporean legal requirements to other jurisdictions. They have in-depth local knowledge and connections, and provide practical and commercial advice.’
‘This team is the most responsive I have ever worked with. They will come back with thoughts, solutions, reviews of correspondence, advice, incredibly quickly. Needless to say, the advice is sound – and any follow-up enquiries are addressed equally quickly.’
Key clients
- CCIC
- Intertek Testing Services
- Sonoco
- Yokohama Rubber
- Chevron Phillips Chemical
- SEEK Pass and JobStreet.com
Work highlights
Acted as Singapore counsel for the sale of shares and assets of S&P 400 multinational Sonoco, collectively worth around US$1.8 billion, including in respect of reverse due diligence on Sonoco’s employment practices in Singapore, and advice on the transfer of employment and work passes from Sonoco to the buyer, Nikkei 225 multinational Toppan.
Acted as Singapore counsel to JPX-listed Yokohama Rubber in its US$905 million acquisition of Goodyear’s Off-the-Road tyre business. The matter involves the alignment of employment transfer processes, as well as compensation and benefits, across 32 jurisdictions.
Acted for Teo Chong Yeow, an ex-BGC Partners broker, in successfully setting aside a bankruptcy statutory demand for Mr Teo to pay more than two years’ salary in lieu of notice, successfully arguing that notice periods could be susceptible to restraint of trade scrutiny.
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