Eddee Ng Ka Luon

Eddee is a partner with the Firm’s Litigation and Arbitration and Banking and Insolvency Practice Groups. He graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) degree in 1996 and was admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore in 1997. Areas of Practice Eddee started his career as a litigation lawyer in a number of high profile defamation cases. Since then he has handled a wide spectrum of corporate and commercial litigation cases. Experience These include matters as diverse as: • advising and/or acting for a number of government-linked organisations in respect of disputes arising out of infrastructure projects in Indonesia; • advising and acting for a state-linked entity in China in respect of a dispute arising out of the sale of soy beans from an international commodity conglomerate to the state-linked entity in China; • advising and acting for a joint venture partner in respect of disputes in relation to investment in an industrial park; • advising and acting for a Singapore listed company in respect of fraud committed by employees in respect of the company's Mexican subsidiary; • advising and acting for a Middle-eastern bank in relation to fraud committed by a bank employee where funds were transferred to Singapore; • advising and acting for a government ministry in relation to numerous issues arising out of the construction of a goverment complex; • advising and acting for a major coal producing company in Indonesia in respect of disputes arising from the supply of coal to a Hong Kong-based entity; • advising a major export and import bank in relation to the Debt Standstill of Asia Pulp & Paper Ltd; • acting for a major international hotel chain in relation to the aborted acquisition of a hotel in Bangkok. • acting for a major luxury resort chain in relation to dispute arising from investments made by private equity funds. • acting for the abovementioned resort chain, several of its directors and the investment advisors of a private equity fund, in a related action for alleged conspiracy and procurement of breach of contract. • advising and/or acting for a number of companies and individuals in private banking and stockbroking disputes. Eddee has also acted in a number of matters which proved to be the first cases of their kind in Singapore. These included a claim for the wrongful seizure of property and a case which dealt with the right of an execution creditor to conduct the sale of secured property vis-a-vis the secured creditor. These cases received favourable outcomes after being heard by the Court of Appeal. Eddee's special interest continues to be in shareholder disputes. In 1998 and 1999, he acted in a high profile minority shareholder's action where complex issues of law and fact arose. In 2001, he acted for majority shareholders in relation to an application for an injunction to restrain the payment of an interim dividend of S$90 million.