Rev Law LLC

Firm Details 

Directors: CHUA Sui Tong, LIEW Yik Wee, WONG Wan Chee

Number of other fee earners: 3

Adjunct counsel: 2

Firm Overview 

Established in 2016 by senior partners from a Big 4 Singapore law firm, REVLaw is a conflict-free specialist dispute resolution practice with a particular focus on complex commercial litigation, insolvency & restructuring, and labour & employment.

Its directors are seasoned litigators who handle disputes at all levels of the Singapore Courts, as well as before domestic and international arbitral tribunals. They advise and represent a broad spectrum of clients across different industries and businesses, including MNCs, banks, insurers, private equity funds, contractors, property developers, hotel owners, accounting firms and insolvency practitioners.

REVLaw and its directors are ranked in leading industry directories including Chambers & Partners, The Legal 500: Asia Pacific, Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific, Asialaw Leading Lawyers and Best Lawyers. REVLaw has also been regularly named by the Straits Times and Statista as one of Singapore’s Best Law Firms in the areas of civil dispute resolution and insolvency and restructuring, and was listed as one of the “ALB Singapore Firms to Watch 2023” by Asia Legal Business.

Recent matters of significance 

We have recently advised and acted for:

Commercial litigation: 

• State agencies of the Mongolian Government in multi-jurisdictional litigation against a former prime minister and his proxies arising from a complex fraud in respect of Mongolian mining resources.
• A major property developer in the assessment of substantial damages claims brought by subsidiary proprietors/MCST.
• The chief executive officer of a listed healthcare group in resisting a minority shareholder’s application to commence a derivative action for alleged breaches of fiduciary duty.
• The chief executive officer of one of the world’s largest sofa manufacturers in resisting substantial claims by a Chinese conglomerate for alleged unlawful conspiracy.
• The managing director of a major private bank in defending substantial claims by a private banking customer.
• One of Thailand’s largest automobile contract manufacturers in international arbitration proceedings against a major Chinese automobile company.

Restructuring and insolvency: 

• The applicant in the first successful rescue financing court application in Singapore involving a “roll-up” of a bank lender’s pre-existing debt.
• A major bank creditor of companies within the Hin Leong group in relation to contentious insolvency proceedings in the Singapore courts.
• The Singapore branch of a major European infrastructure group in obtaining Singapore court recognition (under common law principles) of an Italian court supervised rehabilitation process involving debts in excess of €1 billion.
• The chief executive of one of the largest container lines in Southeast Asia in relation to a successful Singapore court-supervised restructuring of its debts.
• Judicial managers of a venture fund approved under the Singapore Government’s Global Investor Programme in securing a pre-packaged scheme of arrangement with creditors.
• One of the largest vertically integrated textile manufacturers in Southeast Asia in connection with its US$1.8 billion debt restructuring in Indonesia, Singapore and New York.

Labour and employment: 

• Two key defendants (out of twelve) in an action brought by one of the biggest transport and logistic companies in Singapore, for amongst other claims, breaches of employment agreements/obligations and of fiduciary duties.
• Various trading houses in the enforcement of rights (in and outside Singapore) against their ex-employees for breach of restrictive covenants and misconduct, including successfully obtaining interim relief (injunctions and search and seizure orders) and damages.
• An MNC in its dealings with a trade union, including review of its worldwide protocol for treatment of unionized employees.
• C-suite executives on their employment contracts upon termination and retirement/retrenchment as well as in the setting up of competing businesses.
• Major MNCs in:
• the drafting of its employment contracts for executives (including their bonus and incentive schemes) and employment guidelines and handbooks in Asia, including India;
• Retrenchment / restructuring exercises; and
• Separation agreements with senior executives.