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PERSONAL PROFILES



DIRECTORS
SAMUEL CHACKO
YOUNG CHEE FOONG
 


SENIOR ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS
ROSLINA BABA
LIM SHACK KEONG



ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS


MICHELLE LOH
PAUL TAN WENRONG
HAZIQ IKA BIN ZAHIDI
ANG MINGHAO



ASSOCIATES
JOSHUA HO
CHANG CHEE JUN
JOANNA KORYCINSKA
WONG SU HUI
SHERYL PEH
DARREN LAI
JUSTIN YEO
YU KAI YAN
THEOPHILUS THOMAS
JAIESH SACHITHANANTHAN
 
 

LIM SHACK KEONG

Tel: (65) 6438 3668 (Gen)
       (65) 6536 5270 (DID)


Fax: (65) 6438 2118

Email: sklim@legispoint.com

Senior Associate Director


 

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