Minority Shareholders’ Rights and Remedies – 19 May

The Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (SVCA) is organising a breakfast seminar helmed by Mr. Eddee Ng, Partner, Tan Kok Quan Partnership. Eddee will be speaking on minority shareholders’ rights and remedies.

Programme

7:45 AM Registration & Breakfast
8:15 AM Presentation
8:40 AM Q & A
8:45 AM Networking Breakfast continues

HIGHLIGHTS
1. Discuss the various situations under which minority
shareholder can compel a purchase of its shares.
2. Liquidation of a company to remedy an infringement
of its rights.

About The Speaker

Eddee Ng is a partner with the Firm’s Litigation and Arbitration and Banking and Insolvency Practice Groups. He graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) degree in 1996 and was admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore in 1997.

Eddee started his career as a litigation lawyer in a number of high profile defamation cases. Since then he has handled a wide spectrum of corporate and commercial litigation cases. These include matters as diverse as:
– advising and/or acting for a number of government-linked organisations in respect of disputes arising out of infrastructure projects in Indonesia;
– advising and acting for a state-linked entity in China in respect of a dispute arising out of the sale of soy bean from an international commodity conglomerate to the state-linked entity in China;
– advising and acting for a joint venture partner in respect of disputes in relation to investment in an industrial park;
– advising and acting for a Singapore listed company in respect of fraud committed by employees in respect of the company’s Mexican subsidiary;
– advising and acting for a Middle-Eastern bank in relation to fraud committed by a bank employee where funds were transferred to Singapore;
– advising and acting for a government ministry in relation to numerous issues arising out of the construction of a government complex;
– advising and acting for a major coal producing company in Indonesia in respect of disputes arising from the supply of coal to a Hong Kong-based entity;
– advising a major export and import bank in relation to the Debt Standstill of a company;
– acting for a major international hotel chain in relation to the aborted acquisition of a hotel in Bangkok.
– acting for a major luxury resort chain in relation to dispute arising from an investments made by private equity funds.

Eddee has also acted in a number of matters which proved to be the first cases of their kind in Singapore. These included a claim for the wrongful seizure of property and a case which dealt with the right of an execution creditor to conduct the sale of secured property vis-a-vis the secured creditor. These cases received favourable outcomes after being heard by the Court of Appeal.

Eddee’s special interest continues to be in shareholder disputes. In 1998 and 1999, he acted in a high profile minority shareholder’s action where complex issues of law and fact arose. In 2001, he acted for majority shareholders in relation to an application for an injunction to restrain the payment of an interim dividend of S$90 million. To-date, Eddee gives talks on the minority shareholders’ remedies under law.

Eddee’s other special interest is private banking disputes. Eddee has acted for both banks and banks’ clients in numerous matters involving a wide range of investment products. In 2004 and 2005, together with another Partner, Eddee assisted PriceWaterhouseCoopers in the investigations of the oil trading losses of China Aviation Oil which amounted to US$ 550 million. This won the Asian Legal Business award for South East Asia Deal of the Year in 2005. Eddee is a member of the Law Society and the Singapore Academy of Law.

Event Details

When: Thursday 19th May 2011
Time: 745am-930am
Where: Singapore Cricket Club, Gilmour Room, Connaught Drive, Singapore 179681
Fees: SVCA Member: S$35/pax; BANSEA/TIE Member: S$45/pax; Non Member: S$65/pax

Register here by 9th May. Please contact Miss Sylvia Koh at +65 6224 7001 should you need more information.

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