Randolph Khoo

Randolph has handled numerous matters. Here are just a few:

• An on-going action against statutory auditors for audit negligence of a principal Singapore subsidiary of one of Denmark’s largest listed companies.

• An on-going action for a Chinese property developer in Singapore against a Singapore incorporated digital bank, a Chinese property development group and a construction group from China for breaches of a settlement agreement and a trust agreement.

• An on-going SIAC arbitration between a Chinese company and a Japanese corporation concerning a share purchase agreement.

• A successful appeal to the Court of Appeal against an order to wind up a company for alleged minority oppression in Suying Design Pte Ltd v Ng Kian Huan Edmund and other appeals [2020] 2 SLR 221.

• A successful appeal to the Court of Appeal against a High Court order refusing to set aside an SIAC award made on a claim of USD 43.87 million and interest, leading to the bulk of the award being eventually set aside in BXH v BXI [2020] 1 SLR 1043.

• Striking out of a claim for failing to disclose a reasonable cause of action in Harwindar Singh s/o Geja Singh v Michael Wong Lok Yung [2015] 4 SLR 69.

• A shareholder dispute with variegated Company Law issues in Naseer Akhtar v Suresh Agarwal [2015] 5 SLR 1032.

• A long civil litigation spanning five years relating to a construction company involving substantial claims of an aggregate of approximately $60 million between the parties as well as satellite litigation. Three reported decisions arose from this brief in Lim Leong Huat v Chip Hup Hup Kee Construction Pte Ltd (No 1) [2008] 2 SLR 786; Lim Leong Huat v Chip Hup Hup Kee Construction Pte Ltd (No 2) [2009] 2 SLR(R) 318 and Lim Leong Huat v Chip Hup Hup Kee Construction Pte Ltd (No 3) [2011] 1 SLR 657.

• Acting as Counsel in CIETAC, UNCITRAL, ICC, SIAC, DIAC and other arbitrations in Singapore and abroad, in India and China.

• Advised on arbitration and court actions for a mainland Chinese distributor and a South Korean franchisor, including an action in the Shenzhen Intermediate Court, successfully securing an extension of the franchise agreement.

• Disputes between Indian investors in a Singapore-incorporated company having natural resource interests in Central Asia and Africa worth over US$25 million. Involved a High Court action in Singapore and arbitration in India.

• Advised a Singaporean investor in arbitration proceedings at the Shanghai Arbitration Commission involving an abortive hotel investment project and related proceedings in the Shanghai Intermediate and High Courts and Singapore High Court.

• Acted in a complex, multi-jurisdictional family asset dispute with claims to assets worth US$12 billion, involving a discharge of injunctive relief and asset-freezing orders in conjunction with civil proceedings abroad in Russia, Switzerland and the United States and related proceedings.

• An arbitration involving a US$175 million dollar power 200MW plant project between North American and Singaporean interests.

• An arbitration between a power generation company and an Indian State power corporation relating to a proposed 220 MW-capacity land based coal fired power plant.

• An arbitration between a Chinese investor against Vietnamese counterparties in an arbitration dispute over a 170 MW photovoltaic plant in Vietnam.

• An ad hoc domestic arbitration between a foreign owned Chinese owned power plant operator and Singapore contractor in a dispute over defects and claims for variations in respect of a 9.9 MW solar-biofuel integrated power plant.

• An arbitration between an American manufacturer of cryogenic submerged motor pumps and a Chinese state-owned enterprise for an LNG terminal at Qingdao, China.

• An arbitration between an American manufacturer and a Chinese purchaser of a continuous copper rod production facility in China.

• Acted for Chinese investors in litigation arising from investment agreements over a purchase of shares in a listed company in Singapore.

• Acting in an SIAC arbitration in which consolidation of 3 arbitration proceedings, each started in respect of a separate but related loan agreement is being sought.

• Acted as counsel in a CIETAC arbitration concerning disputes under a franchise distribution agreement.

• Acting in an ICC Arbitration between a Hong Kong oceanographic and aeronautical equipment procurer/supplier and Chinese companies over a dispute concerning the supply of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.

• Acted in a series of arbitrations involving Indonesian and American interests with respect to defective industrial machinery delivered to a plant in Indonesia.

• A range of notable private client cases involving complex questions of law including forum non conveniens, lodgement of caveats, divisibility of gifts & inheritances, relocation from Singapore, enforcement of a separation deed and divisibility of inter-spousal gifts.