PRACTICE
EXPERIENCE
Charmaine is an experienced litigator who has handled
complex local and cross-border disputes at all levels of the
Singapore Courts. Charmaine also has considerable experience in
alternative dispute resolution forums, namely, domestic and
international arbitration, mediation (both court-regulated
mediation and mediation at the Singapore Mediation Centre), and
adjudication.
Charmaine’s practice involves
dealing with a wide array of commercial disputes, including
contractual, trust, construction, insurance, banking, copyright
infringement, defamation, debt recovery, employment,
international trade, joint-venture, shareholder, landlord and
tenant, property, insolvency-related, and company-related
disputes. Charmaine also has experience with handling claims
under the recently enacted Protection from Harassment Act.
Some recent highlights of her
practice include working on:-
•a cross-border dispute in the
High Court involving Singapore, Hong Kong and Russian entities,
and claims relating to breach of trust, breach of worldwide
Mareva injunction orders, as well as the siphoning of funds
through a complex multi-jurisdictional conspiracy;
•a complex shareholders’
dispute filed in the High Court, involving more than 10
defendants (both individuals and corporations), a renowned
public-listed company and allegations of various multi-faceted
sham transactions designed to conceal the round-tripping of
significant sums of money; and
•a High Court dispute involving a company’s claim
against 3 law firms for professional negligence regarding the
manner in which the underlying lawsuit was conducted. The case
also involved allegations of copyright infringement, forgery of
documents, as well as cross-border legal issues such as the
significance and/or enforceability of foreign judgments in
Singapore.
EDUCATION
LL.B (Hons). National University of Singapore, 2008
BAR ASSOCIATIONS AND QUALIFICATIONS
Advocate & Solicitor, Singapore
Member, The Singapore Academy of
Law
Member, The Law
Society of Singapore
CITIZENSHIP
Singaporean
LANGUAGES
English, Mandarin
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