Wee Swee Teow & Co Profile

WEE SWEE TEOW & CO

  Address : 11 Unity Street
  #02-03 Robertson Walk
  Singapore 237995
  Tel : (65) 6532 2966
  Fax : (65) 6534 3294
  (65) 6534 3313
  (65) 6533 3713
  Email : wsteow@singnet.com.sg
  Website : www.wst.com.sg
     

Wee Swee Teow & Co was founded by the late Wee Swee Teow in 1912. It is Singapore’s oldest Asian legal firm. Legal services and advice provided by the firm include:

  • Arbitration, Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution

  • Banking, Finance and Securities

  • Construction

  • Civil & Criminal Litigation

  • Corporate

  • Family

  • Information Technology / Intellectual Property Rights

  • Property

  • Trust, Estate Planning and Probate



Trust, Estate Planning & Probate

The firm has a leading chancery practice in Singapore. It is known for its experience in trust, probate and administration practice which includes the following:

  • Creation of trusts, wills and settlements

  • Trust and estate planning

  • Advice on and applications relating to probate, estate administration and the laws of succession



The firm has been involved in major trust cases that have gone before the Courts. It acted in the last case that appeared before the Privy Council in England involving an estate of a local philanthropist. Examples of some cases dealt with include the following:

  • The Sallim Talib Settlements

  • The Tan Tye Estate

  • The Valibhoy Trust

  • The Alkaff Settlements

  • The Tan Lip Boey Estate

  • The Wee Kay Siang Estate

  • The Lee Hiok Kwee Estate

  • The Shaik Ahmad BA.W. Basharahil Estate

  • The Chow Cho Pon Estate

  • The Manasseh Meyer Synagogue and Hebrew School Settlements

  • The Alexander Eu Keng Kee Estate





CONTACT PARTNERS:

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T.P.B. Menon (Consultant)
LL.B. (Hons)
E-mail : menon@wst.com.sg

T P B Menon obtained his LLB (Hons) from the then University of Malaya in Singapore in 1961. He has been in active practice since 1962. He was senior partner of Oehlers & Choa before it merged with Wee Swee Teow & Co in 1989.


Mr Menon was a former President of the Law Society of Singapore (1980 to 1983), President of the Asean Law Association (1984 to 1986), Dy Chairman of the Board of Legal Education (1978 to 2001), Member of the Military Court of Appeal (1980 to 1990), Member of the Senate of the Law Academy (1988 to 1998) and Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee (1991 to 2004). Mr Menon is currently a Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Halsbury's Laws of Singapore published by Butterworths.


Mr Menon is known for his knowledge of property and trust law particularly trust litigation. He has contributed several articles in local Journals including an article entitled "Disputes Involving Trusts: The Singapore Experience" in the book entitled Disputes Involving Trusts edited by Nedium Peter Vogt.


Mr Menon retired as Senior Partner of the firm in 2000 and is currently a Consultant with the firm.

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Hui Shun Yun nee Yueng
LL.B.(Hons)
E-mail : shunyun@wst.com.sg

Yeung Shun Yun has over 30 years of experience in legal practice. Her areas of practice include property law, banking, finance and securities, estate planning and probate.


She advises the firm's clients on all aspects of residential, commercial & industrial development projects and is actively involved not only in early acquisition negotiations, but also completion of the necessary transactional documents and subsequent sales to end purchasers. As a necessary corollary to her primary area of practice, she has also been extensively involved in advising her clients on documentation relating to the financing of their real estate transactions in Singapore. Shun Yun's practice also sees her advising her clients in lease matters, en bloc sales, collective agreements, mortgagees' sales as well as estate, probate and trust matters.


In her Estate practice, she advises legal personal representatives on their duties and beneficiaries as to their rights. Where estate assets comprise of land, Shun Yun is also involved in family arrangements, settlements and public tender sales of estate property.


She currently serves as legal advisor to the Singapore Wui Leng Thung Heon Wui.

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Wong Hur Yuin
LLB. (Hons)
E-mail : hur.yuin@wst.com.sg

Wong Hur Yuin graduated from the National University of Singapore with her Bachelor of Laws (Hons) degree in 1990, and was admitted to practice the next year.


She was involved in Singapore's last appeal to the Privy Council which dealt with breaches of trust taking place over a period of 30 years. She dealt with the subsequent applications for accounts and inquiries, tracing trust assets and examining transactions over the said 30-year period. That fired her interest in matters relating to wills and probate, as well as trusts and trustees' duties especially where they relate to the managing of the estates of deceased or mentally incapable persons. She views those cases, as well as her cases involving matrimonial and child custody/access proceedings, as all being part of her practice of "Family Law", in view of the fact that much of the trust and probate litigation she encounters arise from family disputes. It is her strong belief that in family matters especially, the adversarial system must be tempered, in appropriate circumstances, by compassion and common sense.


Hur Yuin has a highly varied practice covering diverse areas of civil litigation particularly family law, contract claims, estate and trust work (including probate and trust litigation), and intellectual property rights.


An avid music hobbyist and amateur musician, she has a particular interest in copyright issues relating to music and the impact of the Internet and digital technology on it.