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Tay Yong Seng    
     
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+65 6890 7808

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+65 6302 3271

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tay.yongseng@allenandgledhill.com

 

Yong Seng is a Partner is Litigation & Dispute Resolution. His practice includes corporate and commercial litigation, employment, arbitration, banking and insolvency. He also acts in disputes involving defamation, administrative law and white collar crime (especially insider trading and market manipulation).

Yong Seng’s experience includes:

 

defending international broker-dealer firms in claims brought by rivals for large-scale “employee-poaching”. The largest of these claims exceeded S$60 million;

acting for Singapore-listed property developers in property disputes, including one of the first major collective-sale disputes in Singapore (valued at over S$80 million);

defending an Australian-listed mining company from a claim arising from the intended purchase of extensive phosphate mining and production facilities in China;

acting for international and local banks in private banking and high-net-worth customer disputes;

acting for shareholders in high-value minority oppression cases;

acting for a reinsurance company in a US$60 million insurance claim, involving a complex offshore marine collision; and

acting for an international sports promotion company in an appeal to the Singapore Court against an arbitration award on illegality and public policy grounds.


Yong Seng has contributed to several leading publications, including Singapore Civil Procedure (Sweet and Maxwell Asia) and Security over Receivables - An International Handbook (Oxford University Press).

Yong Seng graduated from Oxford University with a BA (Law) (Hons) in 2003. He then obtained a BCL (the Oxford equivalent of the LLM) from Oxford University in 2004. At Oxford, he was awarded a College Exhibition and a College Book Prize by Pembroke College for his excellent academic performance.

He was called to the Singapore Bar in 2006 when he joined Allen & Gledhill.

In 2009/2010, Yong Seng was seconded to the Ministry of Law in Singapore for nine months, where he served as an Assistant Director working on legal policy and regulating the legal profession.

In 2010, Yong Seng was selected to be placed on the Supreme Court’s list of Young Amicus Curiae. He appeared as Amicus Curiae in 2011, in the first High Court case in Singapore involving a novel securities offence known as “front running”.



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