Joshua Ling

Insurance & Reinsurance  

• Counsel for an insurer in respect of claims for indemnity brought by a managing agent in relation to civil liability incurred by it in the course of services rendered to the Aljunied Hougang Town Council. 
• Counsel for a local telecommunications service provider and advising on cross-jurisdictional insurance policies governed by United States and Singapore law. 
• Counsel for a Singapore-based insurer resisting a claim for indemnity in excess of SGD 5 million in respect of a Contractor’s All-Risk Policy made by an insured construction company in the High Court. 
• Counsel for a local leading law firm in relation to alleged claims of negligence and loss of chance made by a former client. 

Commercial Litigation  

• Counsel for a group of Singapore-based bunkering companies, its ex-judicial managers and liquidators for claims in excess of USD 150 million made against an ex-director for breach of director duties. 
• Counsel for the Singapore arm of a leading Japanese multi-national group in information technology systems and solutions in respect of contractual claims made by other counterparties and which involve the disputed agency and fraud of an ex-employee. 
• Counsel for an appellant in an appeal in the High Court against the Assistant Registrar’s decision to set aside leave to serve suit out of jurisdiction (Oni Global Pte Ltd v Wong Yong Kai [2022] SGHC 136). 
• Counsel for a group of subsidiary proprietors seeking declaratory relief in the High Court against the MCST of a condominium.  
• Counsel for a Singapore-based bunkering company in respect of multi-party proceedings, involving allegedly fraudulent cargo transactions and conspiracy, which were commenced by international banks for a claim in excess of USD 12 million. 
• Counsel for a Singapore-based property development and investment company in respect of claims made by a broker company for alleged breach of contract and quantum meruit. 

International Arbitration  

• Counsel for an appellant in the Court of Appeal in an appeal against the High Court’s refusal to set aside an arbitral award issued in a Singapore-seated international arbitration (COT v COU [2023] SGCA 31). 
• Counsel for the defendant in resisting the enforcement of a Pennsylvanian-seated ICDR emergency award in the High Court on the basis of a breach of natural justice. This was also a landmark decision in which the High Court conclusively affirmed that foreign emergency awards may be enforced in Singapore as a foreign award under the International Arbitration Act 1994 (CVG v CVH [2022] SGHC 249). 
• Counsel for a Myanmar-based company in the business of international sugar exportation in a complex joint venture and shareholders’ dispute in a Singapore-seated SIAC international arbitration. 
• Assisted in a complex Singapore-seated SIAC international arbitration for a prominent Chinese multi-national vehicle company involving the fabrication and assembly of commercial vehicles concerning Thai Law, that spanned three concurrent arbitration proceedings in the SIAC with issues of interpretation of contractual provisions, tax exemption issues arising from the operation of industrial free-trade zones, and potential criminal proceedings arising from the disputes. 

White Collar Crimes & Investigations 

• Counsel for a board of directors of a SGX-listed company in relation to investigations by the Commercial Affairs Department and advising on matters under the SGX Catalist Rules, and the Securities and Futures Act.  

Insolvency & Restructuring  

• Counsel for a Singapore-incorporated company providing financial education services, in respect of the judicial management and subsequent liquidation of a multimillion-dollar group of trading companies in the High Court involving hundreds of creditors in the ASEAN region. 

Private Clients, Wealth & Trusts 

• Counsel for a group of defendants in a multimillion-dollar family-related trusts dispute involving the beneficial interest of shares in a Singapore-incorporated company and other equitable remedies in the High Court. 

Risk Management & Advisory   

• Counsel for a Dubai-incorporated company in the business of sustainable and renewable energy, and advising on a contract for the development of tradable carbon credits in the form of crypto-tokens.   
• Advised a Singapore-based airport management company, and a Singapore-based airport operations company in respect of contractual, tortious and aviation law matters involving inter alia the Montreal Convention 1999.