Employment
End-To-End Advisory in All Aspects of Employment Matters
Fintech and Blockchain Services
Navigating Singapore’s evolving employment landscape is challenging for both corporates and individuals. Our Employment team acts for both corporates and C-suite executives and has extensive commercial experience in advising on the full spectrum of employment law related matters.
For our corporate clients, we recognise the need to balance between legal complexities and practical solutions. Our Employment team is committed to providing quality, commercially wise counsel in a wide range of issues including the drafting of corporate employment policies, employee compensation and benefits such as Employee Share Option Schemes (ESOS) and Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOP), management of restructuring, mergers and acquisitions and redundancy situations, data privacy, and corporate governance.
Our C-suite clients trust us in representing them in employment disputes such as wrongful dismissal and termination. We also support them in non-contentious matters such as negotiating their contracts and advising them on their rights and obligations relating to restrictive covenants including non-compete/non-solicitation and restraint of trade clauses.
We know that employment law is never confined to itself. Having a strong grounding in civil litigation, we represent our clients in contractual disputes, wrongful dismissal claims and termination issues. We also tap on our expertise in investigations, anti-corruption and bribery disputes to support our clients in employment-related matters such as employee misconduct and whistle-blowing.
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Chambers & Partners – Asia Pacific 2023
PDLegal LLC is pleased to announce that Managing Partner, Peter Doraisamy, has been recognised and ranked by Chambers & Partners (Asia Pacific 2023 for Shipping: Domestic: Litigation). The following quotes appear with Peter’s ranking: –
“Peter Doraisamy of PDLegal in Singapore is a noted shipping lawyer in the market. He handles a wide range of disputes, including ship grounding, cargo and fraud-related cases” – Chambers & Partners – Asia Pacific 2023
“He is excellent in litigation. He has very good control of the case, collecting the right evidence and putting this into a very successful trial.” – Shipping Litigation Client
Chambers and Partners is the leading independent professional legal research company operating across 200 jurisdictions. Chambers and Partners delivers detailed rankings and insights into the world’s leading lawyers and law firms.
This ranking is a testimony to the expertise and experience of the Firm’s shipping practice and would not be possible without the support of our clients and friends.
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Our Notable Experience Include
- Acted as lead counsel for a multi-national retail company, which had commenced a Singapore High Court action against an ex-employee and a co-conspirator for fraud and embezzlement of the company’s funds in the sum of S$15 million. We successfully obtained on an urgent basis, a worldwide Mareva injunction against the Defendants.
- Advised and reviewed a sale and purchase agreement, shareholders’ agreement and employment agreement(s) and preparing legal due diligence report for the purchase and acquisition of a blockchain technology company headquartered in Singapore.
- Acted for notable local SMEs (a food and beverage chain and an aesthetic and wellness chain) in addressing investigations mounted by the Ministry of Manpower. We provided advice, interviewed and examined the relevant employees, identified risk areas, and advised the company on its exposure and methods to restructure its policies and processes.
- Acted for one of the largest logistics and petrochemical service providers in South East Asia in respect of a conspiracy claim against several employees of a subsidiary. We also acted in a prohibitory injunction application against the said employees.
- Assisted in the internal Investigation of an employee of a client, a Forex Trader who purportedly performed several “wash trades” contravening Part I paragraph 6 of the Blue Book. Issues include whether a private and confidential agreement between two individuals to perform what seems to be a “wash trade” like transaction, contravenes the Blue Book.
- Advising a company on their current PDPA policies, and structuring appropriate defensive policies to ensure compliance not only during the employee or vendor’s period of employment but also to ensure that employees and vendors continue to protect core interests post-service.
- Advising employees on their post-termination obligations in respect of restraint of trade/non-solicit clauses.
- Drafting employment contracts for a major accounting and professional services firm headquartered in Singapore with offices in over 10 countries worldwide.
- Advising a former high-level executive of a major e-commerce company in obtaining settlement in respect of a wrongful dismissal dispute.
- Advising a major dry bulk shipping operator in negotiating the termination of a former employee for misconduct.
- Advising and assisting a C-Suite executive formerly employed with a major global payment services company’s Singapore office, in obtaining settlement for wrongful dismissal claims against her former employer.
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A diverse and dynamic group of industry-leading lawyers committed to helping you solve your challenges.
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Peter Doraisamy
Group Managing Partner
“Peter is highly intelligent, with a keen awareness for issues. He often proposes simple, practical solutions for seemingly complex issues.”
-Chambers & Partners – Asia Pacific 2024
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Gerard Quek
Group Deputy Managing Partner
Gerard Quek – Lawyer Profile
Gerard’s main areas of practice include fraud and asset recovery, commercial disputes, financial services law and regulation and shipping litigation.
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Paul Papon Charoenpao
Managing Partner PDLegal Thailand
Paul Papon Charoenpao – Lawyer Profile
Papon specializes in Financial Services, Venture Capital & Private Equity Funds, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Corporate.
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Nazim Khan
Senior Partner
Nazim Khan – Lawyer Profile
Nazim specialises in complex high value Commercial Litigation and International Arbitration.
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Andrew Lee Weiming
Partner
Andrew Lee Weiming – Lawyer Profile
In October 2017, Andrew was featured as one of “Asia’s brightest young legal minds under 40 years of age making waves” by Asian Legal Business.
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Mato Kotwani
Partner
Mato Kotwani – Lawyer Profile
Mato’s practice areas encompass civil and commercial litigation, criminal litigation (white-collar and general crime), employment law and other advisory work
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Ivan Lee
Partner
Ivan Lee – Lawyer Profile
Ivan Lee earned his Bachelor of Laws (Honours) degree from the University of Leeds in 2017 and became a practicing Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore in 2019.
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Gursharn Singh
Counsel
Gursharn’s areas of practice focuses on litigation and international arbitration.
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T Dinesh
Counsel
Dinesh’s main areas of practice are Payment Services / Data Privacy, Mergers & Acquisition (M&A), Funds, Employment Law, and Trust.
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Yzabel Dumaguing
Counsel
Yzabel Dumaguing – Lawyer Profile
Yzabel’s main areas of practice are complex commercial and civil litigation (including cross-border commercial and corporate disputes), shipping, international arbitration and trade, energy, natural resources & mining, and offshore.
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Glenn Chua
Counsel
Glenn’s main areas of practice include fraud, asset recovery and investigations, complex commercial and cross-border disputes, restructuring and insolvency, international arbitration, and mediation. Glenn also specialises in white-collar criminal defence work.
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Pranav Kamnani
Counsel (Registered Foreign Lawyer)
Pranav’s main areas of practice include complex commercial and cross-border disputes, international arbitration, and advisory services, with a primary focus in disputes relating to joint-ventures, shareholder disputes and construction. Pranav also advises and represents clients in industry sectors, such as, shipping, technology and telecommunication, aviation and defence, and oil and natural gas.
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Karanaporn Monsatta
Senior Associate
Karanaporn main areas of practice include Corporate & Commercial Advisory, Mergers & Acquisitions, Capital Markets Funds, and Employment.
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Lester Kuo
Associate
Lester Kuo – Lawyer Profile
Lester Kuo’s practice areas Corporate & Commercial Advisory, Corporate, Commercial & Civil Litigation, Employment, Mergers & Acquisitions, China Desk
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Elizabeth Wong
Associate
Elizabeth Wong Profile
Elizabeth’s main areas of practice include civil and commercial litigation, criminal litigation.
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Wisansaya Supasit
Associate
Wisansaya’s main areas of practice include civil and commercial litigation, criminal law, shareholder disputes, and mediation.
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Thao-Nguyen NGUYEN
Associate (Vietnam Desk)
Thao-Nguyen’s main areas of practice include corporate & commercial advisory, mergers & acquisitions, employment, foreign direct investment, and regulatory and licensing.
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Sorawich Techapornhiran
Associate
Sorawich Techapornhiran’s main areas of practice include Corporate, Commercial & Civil Litigation and Criminal Practice.
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Benyapa Hadkaewsakul
Associate
Benyapa Hadkaewsakul’s main areas of practice include Corporate & Commercial Advisory, Regulatory and Compliance, Foreign Direct Investment, Employment, Mergers & Acquisitions.
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