Nazim Khan
- Senior Partner
- Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore)
Nazim has over 30 years of experience advising and representing clients in complex commercial litigation, restructuring and insolvency, and international arbitration. He has particular expertise in high-value disputes involving fraud, forensic investigations and white-collar crime, and regularly acts for corporations, financial institutions, insolvency practitioners, entrepreneurs and high-net-worth individuals in contentious and advisory matters.
His practice covers a broad range of commercial disputes, including judicial management, receivership and corporate restructuring, shareholder and director disputes, banking litigation, securities and regulatory matters, construction and infrastructure disputes, professional negligence claims, defamation, estate and probate disputes, and cross-border asset recovery. Nazim has also advised on corporate and commercial transactions, including shareholders’ agreements, mergers and acquisitions, and the acquisition and disposal of businesses and assets.
He is recognised for his strategic, commercially focused advice and extensive experience handling complex, multi-jurisdictional disputes before the Singapore courts and arbitral tribunals.
Nazim was called to the English Bar (Middle Temple) in July 1990 and admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore in January 1992.
Key Practices
Qualifications
- University of London, LL.B.
- Advocate & Solicitor, Singapore (1992)
- Barrister-at-Law, The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple (1990)
Speaking engagements
Memberships
- Member, Law Society of Singapore
- Member, The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple
- Member, Singapore Academy of Law
- Founding Fellow of Insolvency Professional Association of Singapore (IPAS)
Selected Experience
Selected Experience
- Acted successfully in a 22-day trial with 16 witnesses in the Singapore High Court involving allegations of Fraudulent Misrepresentation and Unlawful Means Conspiracy with several experts.
- Acted for private equity investor in relation to a negligence action against an offshore bank in an acquisition of an oil rig (value US$6 million) with limitation issues.
- Acted for a financial education company listed on the ASX against a former director for breach of director’s duties and breach of a restraint of trade clause which resulted in a favorable settlement.
- Acted for a Plaintiff in a complicated estate matter who had loaned S$5 million to a deceased – the matter was settled favorably.
- Acted for a former Goldman Director relating to the 1MDB saga in relation to CMSA charges in Malaysia and as they relate to Singapore.
- Acted for a Counterparty in the Hin Leong/Ocean Tanker matter relating to white collar issues (in excess of US$50 million).
- Acted for a GIP Fund in claims by its preference shareholders against the Fund by way of a Derivative Action and subsequently acting for the Directors in claims against them for breach of fiduciary duties (S$40 million) which resulted in a settlement.
- Acted for a substantial unitholder of Eagle REIT in Singapore comprising 18 US hotels originally valued at US$1.2 billion and dealing with issues relating to an EOGM, the MAS, and the REIT Trustee.
- Acted successfully for a Key Director in his Defence in an Unlawful Means Conspiracy claim by Shanghai Shipyard for US$40 million that resulted in a favorable settlement.
- Acted for an Interim Judicial Manager in relation to the completion of the upgrading of 55 HDB Blocks.
- Acted for the Special Investigation Committee of a local listed company (SBI Offshore) in relation to investigating allegation of overseas bribery.
- Acted for a Co-Administrator in removing another Administrator which involved assets in several jurisdictions notably in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore, and the BVI, and which resulted in a settlement of S$22 million.
- Claims in the High Court relating to shares in a listed company involving breach of moratorium.
- Acted for a large Philippine company against an offshore bank in relation to a wrongful call on a standby letter of credit.
- Acted for Receiver & Managers and Judicial Managers in relation to Construction Companies (Guan Choon and Pillar Construction – G10 Companies).
- Acted in an arbitration relating to a combined cycle power plant in Bangladesh that resulted in a settlement (in excess of US$150 million).
- Acted on matters relating to several large mounted power plants owned by several Malaysia listcos in the late 1990s that went into their equivalent of Judicial Management (“Danaharta”) covering Kenya, Ecuador, Dominican Republic and Bangladesh;
- Acted for the 1st Defendant in a 13-day trial involving allegations of Limitation, Conversion and Constructive Trust.
- Acted for Schindler Lift Company Pte Ltd in many claims arising out of being a Nominated Sub-Contractor under the Singapore Institute of Architects Conditions of Contract during the 1997 financial crisis;
- Acted for the key prosecution witness in PP v Cheam Tat Pang [1996] 1 SLR 54, where the trial in the District Court lasted more than 30 days (1994-1996);
- Acted in collateral civil suit between a Listco and an investor in setting up of a large Poultry Farm in Tianjin, China.
- Acted for a large main contractor in disputes relating to sheet piling for a 9-storey flatted factory.
- Successfully set-aside a Consent Judgment for approximately S$2 million that remained executory for more than 12 years for mistake of fact. The counterparty appealed and lost.