PRACTICE EXPERIENCE
Shack Keong is an experienced litigator who has
appeared at all levels of the Singapore Courts. He is
also very familiar with all forms of alternate dispute
resolution, including mediation and arbitration.
Shack Keong was called to
the Singapore Bar in 1992.
Shack Keong has a wealth of
experience handling technical and especially complex
disputes over a wide array of matters involving
multinational corporations. These often involve freezing
orders, search and seizure orders and other similar
applications. Shack Keong also acted for a Singapore
company in applying to set aside an exparte Mareva
injunction obtained by liquidators for a Swiss entity.
He was also part of a team comprising lawyers and
computer forensic technicians engaged by a multinational
corporation that carried out the execution of a search
order in which thousands of electronic and physical
documents were seized.
The nature of the disputes
Shack Keong has handled range from agency, defamation,
to conspiracy and fraud, including a dispute involving
the determination of the beneficial ownership of assets
held in the bank accounts of various nominee corporate
entities incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, the
Cayman Islands and Singapore. That dispute involved
issues pertaining to the doctrine of separate legal
personality of corporate entities, resulting trusts, and
constructive trusts. Shack Keong was also involved in a
matter in which a member of the senior management of a
client, acting in breach of his fiduciary duties,
procured bank facilities based on certain
misrepresentations. Shack Keong also acted for a listed
Malaysian company in recovering monies paid to a party
who represented himself to be an agent for the intended
recipient of the monies. Shack Keong also acted for a
bunker company in an interpleader summons taken out by
the suppliers of bunkers to determine the ownership of
bunkers in his client’s physical custody. Shack Keong
also acted for an oil company in an arbitration held in
Kenya, in which his client recovered the market price of
the oil stocks deposited by his client in the
defendant’s storage facilities located in Kenya.
Shack Keong has also
provided advice on regulatory matters that involve
issues such as front running, insider trading and money
laundering and tax evasion.
Shack Keong has also acted
in a number of complex minority shareholder oppression
cases. He acted in a shareholder dispute involving
family members who had inherited substantial assets from
their parents. He also acted in a dispute involving the
alleged oppression of the minority shareholders of a
holding company whose main asset was a hotel. He also
acted for a director who was appointed to the board of a
joint venture company whose sole business was property
development, and whom, the minority shareholders
alleged, acted in breach of his fiduciary duties.
Shack Keong's expertise
further extends to construction and infrastructure
disputes. He has handled a significant number of such
matters including a major multimillion dollar dispute
concerning the construction of an underground cable for
power supply company. This dispute involved issues
pertaining to the doctrine of frustration of contracts
and the justiciability of a statutory authority’s stop
work order in the context of an arbitration. He also
acted for a sub-contractor in recovering monies due for
work done from the main contractor in the construction
of the Pan Island Expressway. He also acted for the main
contractor in a dispute involving the construction of
the East West MRT line. He also acted for a Japanese
construction firm in an application under the Building
and Construction Security of Payments Act (Cap 30B).
Shack Keong has also acted
in numerous family law matters involving divorce
petitions (contested and uncontested) and maintenance
summonses.
Shack Keong has extensive
experience acting as counsel in mediation sessions,
often conducted in the midst of adversarial proceedings.
He successfully advised a client in a long standing
family dispute between siblings, in a mediation
conducted in the Singapore Mediation Centre.
As part of the firm’s corporate social responsibility,
Shack Keong provides pro bono services and volenteers at
legal clinics. He has been featured in the local press
for acting in an appeal before the Court of Appeal of
Singapore in which his team successfully managed to set
aside the conviction of the accused. Shack Keong is also
a member of the Lighthouse Club.
EDUCATION
LLB (Hons) National University of Singapore, 1991
BAR ASSOCIATIONS AND QUALIFICATIONS
Advocate & Solicitor, Singapore
Member, The Singapore
Academy of Law
Member, The Law
Society of Singapore
CITIZENSHIP
Singapore
LANGUAGES
English
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