Gary Low

Some of the matters that Gary has handled include the following:

Arbitration

• Acted for a subsidiary of a Malaysian public listed company in an arbitration against the Johor State Government for breach of a privatisation and development agreement for the construction of a waterfront city in Johor Bahru.

• Acted for a Malaysian company in an arbitration against the Selangor State Government for breach of an agreement for the sale and development of land.

• Acted for a global accountancy and consultancy firm in the arbitration of a claim filed by an ex-director for wrongful dismissal.

Banking Disputes

• Acted for a financial institution against the liquidators of Lehman Brothers on claims arising from the unwinding of derivatives transactions with Lehman Brothers.

• Acted for a foreign financial institution in respect of a claim for breach of mandate, breach of implied terms and duties of care relating to an alleged wrongful transfer and sale of security.

• Acted for a financial institution against a claim by Indonesian customers for alleged misrepresentation and misspelling of complex financial products, including accumulators, equity-linked convertible instruments, equity-linked notes and dual currency returns.

• Acted for an Indonesian investor against a foreign bank in respect of the forced liquidation of the investor’s investment in shares accumulator contracts.

• Acted for a global US bank in a claim for over S$12 million against two directors/shareholders of a public-listed company under a Deed of Undertaking.

• Advised a company listed on the Main Board of the SGX-ST in respect of its rights against a foreign bank in relation to its purchase of S$10 million worth of credit-linked notes from the foreign bank.

Contract/Commercial Disputes

• Acted for a construction company listed on the Main Board of the SGX-ST in a suit for breach of joint-venture agreement.

• Acted for a manufacturer and distributor of soft drinks products listed on the Main Board of the SGX-ST in a claim by its Indonesian franchisee for alleged breach of a Franchise Agreement and unlawful interference with the franchisee’s trade.

• Advised a manufacturer and distributor of soft drinks and dairy products which is listed on the Main Board of the SGX-ST on the breach of distributorship agreement by its Australian supplier of dairy products.

Company Disputes

• Represented shareholders in suits against the controlling shareholders for oppression.

• Represented corporations in claims against former employees for breach of duties, breach of confidentiality and breach of non-compete covenants.

Trust/Fiduciary Cases

• Acted for the administrator of an estate in successfully resisting the sale of the estate’s property by the co-administrator at an undervalue.

• Represented related corporations in actions against its former director/fiduciary to recover unauthorised payments and monies misappropriated by the director/fiduciary.

• Represented a jeweler and its director against a claim for dishonestly assisting in the dissipation of trust monies by the former solicitor of the Plaintiffs who absconded with the Plaintiffs’ monies.

Property disputes

• Acted for the administrator of an estate in successfully resisting a claim for adverse possession of the estate’s land.

• Acted for purchasers of properties to obtain specific performance against the sellers for breach of options to purchase or breach of sale and purchase agreements.

• Acted for the majority owners of a strata development in their appeal against the dismissal by the Strata Titles Board (“STB”) of their application for STB’s approval of the development’s collective sale worth S$34 million.

Tort

• Represented an auxiliary police officer and his employer in defending a claim made by a private investigator for aggravated, exemplary, and special damages for alleged assault, battery, wrongful arrest and false imprisonment.

Criminal Cases

• Represented the Attorney-General’s Chambers of Brunei in multiple prosecutions against former employees of Brunei Shell Petroleum over corruption charges amounting to more than B$800,000.00 in bribes.

• Defended a managing director of a Singapore-listed company against alleged offences under the Securities Industry Act based on charges of alleged market manipulation and making of alleged false and misleading statements in a public announcement to the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited.

• Defended a businessman against an offence under the Securities Industry Act for market manipulation of the market for the shares of a public listed company.

• Defended an Advocate & Solicitor of Singapore, against a charge of insider trading under the Securities and Futures Act for communicating price-sensitive information of a takeover deal to third parties.

• Represented a former CFO of a listed company under the civil penalty regime of the Securities and Futures Act for insider trading of the company’s shares.

• Defended a former MINDEF executive against a corruption charge involving the receipt of commission from a contractor who had been awarded a MINDEF contract.

• Defended a businessman charged with over 20 counts of conducting his business with intent to defraud creditors.

• Defended a multinational shipping company and the Master of one of its vessels against charges of overloading of its vessels.

• Acted for a leading cable services provider in private prosecutions against sellers of unauthorised decoders which allow users to view cable television programmes for free.