Yap Loh & Partners LLP

Our Corporate Law Practice lawyers have in aggregate over 3 decades of experience advising on and handling a wide range of corporate & commercial matters across a broad spectrum of transactions for our clients.

We are able to assist our clients at various planning, structuring, legal documentation, negotiation and implementation stages of the transaction. Our goal is to work with clients to achieve and/or address their commercial objectives or concerns within the legal framework.

Our clients include MNCs, large corporations, SMEs, investors and entrepreneurs.

Our Corporate Practice provides legal support and services in the following areas:

• Corporate & Commercial
• Investments And Mergers & Acquisitions
• Business Establishment & Corporate Secretarial Services

Our Litigation Practice advises and assists clients requiring legal representation on a broad spectrum of accident & personal injury claims, commercial & civil disputes and criminal matters.

Our clients include MNCs, large corporations, SMEs and private individuals (including high net worth individuals).

We provide legal services in the following areas:

• Accident & Personal Injury Claims
• Commercial & Civil Litigation
• Criminal Litigation

Commercial & Civil Litigation
We also advise and act for clients on a wide range of commercial and civil disputes, including:

• Contractual Disputes
• Tortious Claims
• Real Estate & Land disputes (including issues relating to adverse possession and encroachment)
• Tenancy Disputes
• Management Corporation Disputes
• Building, Construction & Renovation claims
• Intellectual Property Infringements
• Shareholders & Joint Venture Disputes
• Insolvency Matters
• Debt Recovery Matters
• Product Liability
• Disciplinary Hearings by Professional Bodies

We are also experienced in advising and defending clients and other accused persons on various criminal and quasi-criminal matters, including:

• Drug Offences
• Drink Driving Offences & Other Traffic Offences
• Customs Offence
• Theft Offences
• Cheating Offences
• Regulatory Offences
• Licensing Offences
• Corruption Offences
• Employment Offences
• Magistrate’s Complaints

Accident & Personal Injury Claims
We assist private individuals (or their estates where such individuals have died) who have suffered personal injuries or died as a result of medical negligence, road/motor accidents, workplace accidents, or industrial accidents.

We act for them in the following areas:

• Medical Negligence Claims
• Road/Motor Accident Claims
• Workmen’s Compensation Claims
• Industrial Accident Claims
• Negligence Claims under Common Law

Our Intellectual Property & Technology Practice advises and assists clients on various aspects of intellectual property ("IP"), technology and data protection laws.

Our lawyers are able to assist you on various IP-related, technology-related and data protection-related matters, including:

• Personal Data Protection Act ("PDPA") Advisory & Compliance Work
• Cyberspace, E-commerce & Information Technology ("IT") Law Advisory Work
• IT-related, E-commerce-related & Cyberspace-related Agreements
• Confidentiality Law Advisory Work & Confidentiality Agreements
• Trade Mark, Design, Copyright & Patent Law Advisory Work
• IP Rights Registrations (including registrations of Trade Marks)
• Commercialisation/Protection of IP Assets via Franchising, Licensing & Assignment Arrangements
• IP Rights Enforcements

Our Employment Law Practice services clients in both contentious and non-contentious areas of employment law.

We advise and assist our clients on a broad spectrum of employment transactions and matters, including:

• Employment Disputes
• Drafting & Negotiation of Employment Agreements & Consultancy Agreements
• Non-Competition & Non-Solicitation Issues
• Data Protection & Confidentiality Issues
• Terminations & Appointments
• Redundancy Measures
• Employment Policies
• Employee Incentives & Stock Option Plans

The lawyers in our Conveyancing & Land Law Practice have in aggregate over 2 decades of experience in handling various conveyancing, real estate and land law transactions and matters.

We have acted for management corporations as well as corporate and individual clients and their appointed financial institutions (where such clients have either taken up or require discharge from financing arrangements secured by mortgages). We are able to act for various major banks in Singapore (including UOB, OCBC Bank and Maybank) in various conveyancing transactions.

Our lawyers are able to assist you in the following areas:

• Sale & Purchase of Residential, Industrial & Commercial Properties
• Mortgage-Related Transactions
• Leasing of Residential, Industrial & Commercial Properties
• Land Law Advisory Work (including advice on landlord & tenant matters, adverse possession and encroachment of land)
• Strata Management & Building Maintenance Legal Advisory Work

Our Family Law Practice advises clients on a broad range of matrimonial and other family law-related matters.

We aim to provide realistic advice for our clients as well as seek workable solutions or arrangements regarding their issues at hand.

Our lawyers are able to assist you in the following areas:

• Family Law Advisory Work
• Adoption of Children
• Divorce (Contested & Uncontested)
• Division of Assets
• Maintenance of Wife & Children
• Access Rights to Children
• Guardianship
• Variation or Enforcement of Court Orders
• Marriage Annulments
• Deeds of Separation, Pre-Nuptial & Post-Nuptial Agreements
• Deed Polls

Our Trusts, Estate Planning & Estate Administration Practice advises and assists clients on various legal aspects of estate planning, estate administration and trusts.

Our lawyers are able to assist you in the following areas:

Estate Planning

We assist our clients in:

• Advising on the Rights of Succession
• Advising on the Rights, Powers and Duties of Personal Representatives/Trustees
• Advising on and structuring various legal instruments that facilitate Asset/Family Wealth Preservation, Estate Planning and Guardianship of Minors. Such instruments include:
  • Wills
  • Will Trusts
  • General & Lasting Powers of Attorney

Estate Administration

We advise and assist trustees, beneficiaries, executors and administrators on various probate and administration matters relating to the estates of deceased persons, including:

• Contentious Probate matters/proceedings
• Non-Contentious Probate applications/petitions including Grants of Probate, Letters of Administration and Petitions For Resealings of Grant
• Estate Duty Advisory Work (where relevant)
• Advising on the Distributions of Assets of Deceased Persons’ Estates
• Advising on the Liabilities of Personal Representatives/Trustees

Trusts

We are able to assist clients in the preparation and setting up of various forms of trust instruments & structures.

We are also able to advise clients on the laws governing trusts, equitable obligations, trustees’ powers & liabilities and remedies for breaches of trust.