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Qualifications
LL.B. (Hons), National University of Singapore (1993)
Admitted to the Singapore Bar as an Advocate and Solicitor in June 1994

 

 

Consultant

Cheryl Tan

DISPUTE RESOLUTION

About Cheryl

Cheryl started practice in Drew & Napier’s Dispute Resolution Department in 1994 after completing her pupillage with the firm. She has extensive litigation and arbitration experience in addition to a 2-year stint in Drew & Napier’s corporate department where she was involved in advising on commercial transactions, particularly mergers & acquisitions involving public-listed companies. She was made a Partner in 1999 and became a Director in 2005. She has been a Consultant since April 2011.

Asia Pacific Legal 500 notes that Cheryl is “well organized and very impressive in terms of analytical skills.”

Areas of Practice

Cheryl has extensive experience in a wide range of general commercial litigation and arbitration work involving diverse areas of law including banking, corporate, shareholder and insolvency, gas and oil disputes, construction as well as corporate debt restructuring. She has also advised on disputes involving corporate takeovers and schemes of arrangements.

The reported cases that Cheryl has worked on include:-

  • PT Makindo (formerly known as PT Makindo Tbk) v Aperchance Co Ltd and others [2010] SGHC 221 (involving allegations of contempt of court arising from advertisements misrepresenting judgment of Singapore court, and whether misreporting of concluded proceedings amounted to contempt of court)
  • Raifessen Zentralbank Osterreich AG v Archer Daniels Midland & Ors [2006] SGHC 182 (involving allegations of fraudulent misrepresentation and conspiracy by unlawful means relating to structured trade finance transactions).
  • State of Johor & another v Tunku Alam Shah ibni Tunku Abdul Rahman & Ors [2005] SGHC 156 (involving a testamentary bequest of property situated on Tyersall Road, Singapore and issues relating to construction of the term “State property”, whether property was bequeathed to beneficiary in his capacity as sovereign ruler or in his personal capacity and conflict of laws).
  • Indofood International Finance Ltd. v JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A [2005] EWHC 2103 (Ch) London, Court of Appeal, Chancery Division (acted as instructing solicitor for the successful appellants in a seminal case involving the meaning of “beneficial ownership” in international double-taxation treaties in the context of a tax redemption clause in a Eurobond issue).
  • Oei Hong Leong v Ban Song Long David & Natsteel Ltd [2005] SGCA 35 (involving a defamation claim by the appellant who was criticized as being “obstructive, oppressive and irrational” in the context of an extraordinary general meeting following a contested takeover offer).
  • Jeyasegaram David (alias David Gerald Jeyasegaram) v Ban Song Long David [2004] SGHC 225 (involving a defamation claim arising from the use of the phrase “playing to the gallery”).
  • Shepherd Andrew v BIL International Ltd [2003] SGHC (involving a claim for severance payments under a dual employment contracts structure and issues of whether an employee owed duties to a parent company even though he was employed by its subsidiaries and whether an employer can retrospectively rely on employee's breaches of obligation to set-off a debt that arose earlier).
  • Long Foo Yit & another both trading as Vehito Service Station v Mobil Oil Singapore Pte Ltd [1997] SGHC 323 (involving a claim for specific performance in respect of a dealer’s licence agreement for a service station and counterclaim for trespass).
  • Tham Khai Meng v Nam Wen Jet Bernadette [1997] 2 SLR 27 (involving claims for division of matrimonial assets and maintenance, and principles on award of costs in ancillary proceedings).
  • Thiam Joo Pte Ltd v Luky Goldstar Trading (Singapore) Pte Ltd [1997] 2 SLR 269 (involving a contract for delivery of toluene and issues of variation, discharge by repudiation and mitigation of damages).
  • Tan Lee Seng & another v EP Investments Pte Ltd & Ors [1995] SGHC 179 (involving a claim for rescission of a contract for sale and purchase of property based on alleged misrepresentation).
  • Soniya Chataram Aswani v Haresh Jaikishin Buxani [1995] 3 SLR 627; [1995] SGHC 169 (involving a petition to annul a Hindu customary marriage which was solemnized but never registered, and issue of the court’s jurisdiction to hear the nullity petition).
  • Lee Yong Cheng & Ors v Khor Teik Hean Michael & Ors [1994] SGHC 244 (involving committal proceedings against the officers of Serangoon Gardens Country Club for alleged breach of orders of court in relation to rights over a footpath).

Appointments / Memberships

  • Member of the Law Society of Singapore
  • Member of the Singapore Academy of Law
  • Member of the Singapore Association of Women Lawyers