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KENNY CHOOI YUE WAI (Director) |
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Kenny Chooi is a Director of Yeo-Leong & Peh LLC.
Summary Profile
Kenny heads the General Litigation Department as well as the Shipping/Admiralty Department. He also presently overseas the firm's representative office in Shanghai.
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| Qualifications
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Kenny received a NUS (Registrar) scholarship and award in 1990/1991. He graduated with an LLB(Honours, 2nd Upper) from the National University of Singapore in 1991. He was placed amongst the top 10 during his PLC.
He was admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor of Singapore in 1992.
He is a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (SIArb). He sits on the secondary Panel of Arbitrators of SIArb and the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) respectively. He also sits on the Panel of Arbitrators under the Law Society Arbitration Scheme.
He has been appointed by the Chief Justice to be a member of the Inquiry Panel under the Legal Profession Act.
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| Areas
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His principal areas of practice are in commercial, general, and shipping litigation.
He has advised on and provided services over a range of contentious and non-contentious works, including the following areas of law: Agency, Arbitration, Banking and Finance, Building and Construction, Company and Corporate matters, Contracts, Employment and Labour, Injunctions, Insolvency, Insurance, Intellectual Property, Landlord and Tenant, Money-lending, Negligence, Partnership, Property and Land, Sale of Goods, Securities, Shipping and Maritime, Tort, and Trust.
He has also done advisory work relating to commercial contracts, projects, conveyancing and real estate matters, and claims of varied nature.
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| Experience |
He has represented clients in Court of Appeal hearings, open Court hearings (both High and Subordinate Courts), chamber hearings, arbitration hearings,Strata Titles Board hearings, mediations, settlement conferences and negotiations.
His shipping/admiralty experience extends to the arrest and release of ships, and sale of ships, cargo claims, charterparty disputes, mortgage claims, bunker claims, freight forwarder claims, repair claims, wage/disbursements claims and agency claims.
Presentation and Seminars
He has presented at legal seminars in Singapore and China in both English and Mandarin.
He is fluent in English, Mandarin, Hokkien and Cantonese. He also speaks conversational Malay. |
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