EUGENE LOW

COMMERCIAL LITIGATION

• Acting for a State party in matters arising from an arbitration with a utilities concession holder
• Acting for a Chinese State-Owned Enterprise in claims relating to a joint venture in Singapore
• Acting for one of the defendants in a complex cross-border claim for fraud over the sale of US$2 billion of art works involving cases lodged with the courts in Monaco, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Singapore and other jurisdictions. This case was named “Matter of the Year” by the Asia-Pacific Dispute Resolution Awards 2016: Bouvier, Yves Charles Edgar v Accent Delight International Ltd [2015] 5 SLR 558; Rappo, Tania v Accent Delight International [2017] 2 SLR 265
• Acting for the principal private financier of a joint venture in a dispute over the division of profits after selling investment properties for more than S$60 million. The case culminated in a landmark decision by the Court of Appeal on abuse of process: Lim Geok Lin Andy v Yap Jin Meng Bryan [2017] SGCA 46
• Acting for a multinational corporation in a 20-day trial against a former director in claims for breach of fiduciary duties and conspiracy which went on appeal to the Court of Appeal: Goh Chan Peng v Beyonics Technology Ltd [2017] SGCA 40. A consequential suit arising from this matter is being heard in the Singapore International Commercial Court
• Acting in a Suit in the Singapore International Commercial Court for a global petrochemical marketing, distribution and project development group and its chairman in claims associated with the collapse of Jurong Aromatics Corporation: Arovin Ltd v Hadiran Sridjaja [2018] 5 SLR 117
• Acting for a medical doctor and his three companies in defending a claim from a tax advisor, and mounting a counterclaim for over S$1 million in damages for negligent tax advice: BMI Tax Services Pte Ltd v Heng Keok Meng [2019] SGHC 9
• Negotiating an out of court settlement for a Chinese oilfield equipment company in a dispute over the termination of a JTC lease
• Acting for a major telecommunications company in a mediation involving a claim against it amounting to more than S$34 million for alleged unauthorised use of infrastructure
• Acting for a major telecommunications company in the resolution of disputes arising out of a planned consolidation exercise
• Acting for a telecommunications facilities-based operator in claims arising from damage caused to its underground fibre optic cables
• Acting for leading commercial hire-purchase financiers in recovery claims
• Advising a Dutch litigation funder on complex issues relating to the assignments of choses in action for possible fraud on the diesel emissions standards of ship engines.

Corporate Advisory / Restructuring and Insolvency

• Advising international and local bank creditors in the restructuring of the Hyflux Group
• Advising liquidators of an EMAS Group subsidiary regarding the EMAS Group scheme of arrangement, and claims made in the Ezra Group Chapter 11 proceedings in the United States
• Advising the putative receivers of a Cayman Islands company in the sale and acquisition of a subsidiary through a “pre-pack” receivership
• Acting for the liquidators of Zuji Travel Pte. Ltd., a pioneering online travel bookings company
• Acting for substantial creditors holding debts in excess of S$1 million in the Judicial Management of Epicentre Holdings Limited, a company listed on the Singapore Exchange
• Advising creditors in the Singapore Flyer insolvency
• Acting for a leading brokerage firm in fraud recovery claims and bankruptcy proceedings in the wake of the 2013 Sky One shares crash
• Acting for various financial institutions in bankruptcy proceedings against debtor
• Advising a Chinese investment company on the acquisition of a mineral mine in Indonesia
• Advising a regional Public Relations group on a demerger and segregation of business units