Marina Chin SC

Practice Areas

Dispute Resolution, Insolvency and Restructuring and Investigations

Career

Marina is a Joint Managing Partner of TKQP, a boutique dispute resolution law firm in Singapore. She a seasoned lawyer with extensive experience handling cross-border matters in the Singapore International Commercial Court and arbitration proceedings, as well as domestic matters in the Singapore Courts.

Marina has acted for entities incorporated in different jurisdictions and is also counsel in various arbitration and court proceedings arising from disputes between joint venture partners in their regional investments.

Awards, accolades and rankings secured over the years, as well as her appointment as Senior Counsel, reflect her standing in the legal profession.

Professional Memberships

• Court Referee of the Industrial Arbitration Court

• Deputy Commissioner, Government Procurement Adjudication Tribunal

• Board Member and Audit & Risk Committee Member, Jurong Port Pte Ltd

• Board Member, Member of Audit Committee and Board Risk Committee, Sembcorp Industries Ltd

• Senate Member, Singapore Academy of Law

• Member, Appeal Advisory Panel of Monetary Authority of Singapore

• Member, Specialist Mediator Panel (Singapore), Singapore International Mediation Centre

• Accreditation Committee Member, Singapore Institute of Legal Education

• Board Member and Audit Committee Member, Singapore Land Authority (1 August 2018 – 31 July 2024)

Publications

• Singapore Civil Procedure 2022, Sweet & Maxwell.

• Singapore Court Practice, LexisNexis Singapore.

• Singapore Precedents of Pleadings, Sweet & Maxwell.

• Commercial Litigation in Singapore, Sweet & Maxwell.

• Commercial Litigation in a Multi-Jurisdictional Context – Lessons from Beyonics Asia Pacific Ltd & ors v Goh Chan Peng & anor [2021] SGCA (I) 2, Lexology, June 2021.

Languages Spoken

English

Experience

• Acting in a longstanding corporate dispute over assets worth in excess of US$160 million involving various individuals and companies in various jurisdictions.

• Acting for a major foreign bank to claim S$54 million as well as to assert the bank’s rights over equipment purchased for S$52 million and used in a major infrastructure project.

• Acting for a major international hotel chain in relation to claims in excess of US$30 million arising from the aborted acquisition of a hotel in Bangkok.

• Acting for a major export and import bank in relation to its claim against a Singapore listed company.

• Acting for one of the largest shipping companies in its claim against fraudulent employees of its Singapore subsidiary, including securing a worldwide Mareva Injunction to freeze assets up to the value of US$30 million as well as an Anton Piller order to preserve evidence.

• Acting for an international group of manufacturing companies in an action against the group’s former director and CEO in the Singapore International Commercial Court. The group claimed for serious breaches of fiduciary duties, bribery and corruption, conspiracy, and diversion of a multi-million business.

• Acting for the Indian branch of a foreign bank that was the victim of a cyber attack to liaise with Singapore authorities and make applications in court to preserve and recover millions transferred to Singapore.

• Acting in an arbitration involving a dispute between joint venture partners from China and Indonesia for an energy project.

• Acting for an Indonesian group of companies against a Swiss based multinational company in a joint venture dispute governed by the arbitration rules of the International Chamber of Commerce.

• Acting for a Vietnamese company against a US based multinational in an arbitration involving breaches of contract governed by US laws before the Singapore International Arbitration Centre.

• Acting for liquidators in relation to a major fraud and conspiracy involving subsidiaries in various jurisdictions in South East Asia and tax havens.

• Acting for an international property consultant in a widely publicised dispute involving claims brought by an information technology company against the Singapore Institute of Surveyors and Valuers and various leading property consultancy firms.

• Acting for a Singapore listed company in respect of fraud committed in relation to its Indonesian subsidiary.

• Acting for a minority shareholder in a derivative action for the benefit of the company based on a multimillion fraud involving the timber industry operated through numerous subsidiaries in the region.

• Acting for a claimant in an application for the judicial review of a decision to seize millions alleged to be linked to the Petrobras scandal, and in an application for the release of monies under section 370 of the Criminal Procedure Code 2010.

• Acting for a claimant in proceedings commenced pursuant to section 29, read with paragraph 7(1) of the Third Schedule, of the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 2000.

• Acting for a Town Council in three appeals concerning novel issues of whether fiduciary duties and duties of skill and care were owed and breached by town councillors, officers of town councils and the corporate entity controlled by these officers.

• Acting for majority shareholders of a Singapore listed company in its dispute with the minority.

• Acting for and advising a creditor in the winding up of a debtor company and successfully challenging the debtor’s company application to implement a scheme of arrangement instead; acting for the liquidators thereafter in arbitration proceedings commenced by the debtor company to claim in excess of S$16 million and to defend a counterclaim of more than S$8.7 million.

• Acting for a defendant in a dispute between him and a joint venture partner on the division of profits after selling investment properties for more than S$60 million.

• Acting for a plaintiff in a complex case where there was a dispute on whether the fire broke out in the plaintiff’s or the defendant’s property, and the cause of the fire was unknown. The Court of Appeal upheld judgment in favour of the plaintiff after hearing arguments on a novel point of law.

• Appointed by the Court of Appeal of Singapore as the independent legal adviser to representatives of a substantial estate.

• Acting in numerous matters involving property law including landmark cases.

• Acting in landmark cases on issues of defamation law.

• Acting in a landmark case on matrimonial assets under family law.

• Acting for the Public Trustee (in her capacity as litigation representative) to make submissions before the Court of Appeal with regard to the Mental Capacity Act on behalf of a high net-worth individual.

Awards