Corporate & Commercial
B R LAW CORPORATION
About us
For over 30 years our people have forged a reputation for championing our clients’ interests. We have represented major corporations, emerging enterprises and prominent families and individuals, sharing the belief that experience and empathy go hand in hand.
Our founding partners began their careers as legal and judicial officers in the Singapore legal service before moving to private practice. Over the last three decades, they have steadily built a comprehensive practice beyond litigation. We now offer a spectrum of legal-related services that includes corporate, commercial, intellectual property, technology, sports and media, and data protection matters.
Yet something that has not changed over the years is our culture of loyalty and tenacity. Our firm is partner-driven and offers accessible legal expertise with a personal touch. We continue to build enduring relationships with our clients. And, because litigation remains at the heart of our practice, we celebrate a culture of striving to prevail against the odds.
We are on your side. Contact us today.
Corporate & Commercial
The complexity of business operations requires corporations to confront the challenges of globalization, technological change, and economic disturbance. To face these challenges, clients need lawyers who are both aggressive and forward-thinking.
We have a well-established corporate and commercial practice which has been responsible for providing sophisticated advice to a diverse base of businesses and entrepreneurs for over 28 years.
Our commercially-minded practitioners have advised individuals, family businesses, public and private companies, government entities, corporate boards and committees, directors and officers, investors and investment funds, non-profits, and trade associations across a wide range of industries.
Our experience includes regulatory compliance, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, tax, securities, finance, bankruptcy, intellectual property licensing, technology development, procurement, and more.
Our Lawyers
Contact:
DID: +65 6394 7688
Main: +65 6899 9888
Mobile: +9236 6817
E-mail: foosoonyien@brlawcorp.com
Foo Soon Yien
Founding & Senior Director
Qualification:
LL.B (Hons), National University of Singapore
Year of Admission:
Advocate and Solicitor, Supreme Court of Singapore (1986)
Areas of Practice:
Civil, Commercial, Probate, Estate, Trust, Employment
Property, Family Litigation and Dispute Resolution
With more than 35 years of legal practice, Soon Yien has advised and acted:
- in a wide range of dispute matters ranging from those involving property transactions, estate, wills, trust, directors’ matters, shareholder’s matters, construction claims, divorces, negligence;
- for clients of high net worth to the man in the street.
She has made her mark in taking novel legal arguments not only to courts of original jurisdiction but to appellate courts including the Court of Appeal. Some of them include:
- acting for a foreign corporation in expunging a registered trademark which was heard in the Court of Appeal and subsequently cited as precedent for trade mark cases: Karrimor International Ltd v Ho Chong Fun t/a Ah Hwa Trading Co [1989] SLR 801;
- acting for a seller in a landmark property case which was heard in the Court of Appeal and set the law on whether unauthorized works to properties constituted defect in title: Huang Ching Hwee v Heng Kay Poh & Anor [1990] SLR 1220 (Also reported in Straits Times 18 November 1992);
- acting in an environment issue avoiding forfeiture orders which relied on a lacuna in the Environmental Public Health Act which led to an amendment in the Act and judgement was reproduced in an eminent publication of the then Singapore Chief Justice Yong Pung How: Toh Teong Seng v PP [1995] 2 SLR 273 (Reported in the Singapore Law Gazette July 1995, Academy Digest issue 8/95, Speeches and Judgements of the Singapore Chief Justice Yong Pung How and the Straits Times 14 April 1995);
- acting for a mother-in-law in intervening where the husband is contending that the property legally owned by her constituted a matrimonial asset. This case was decided by 5 Court of Appeal judges on the jurisdiction of the Family Justice Courts / Family Division of High Court: see UDA v UDB and another [2018] SGCA 20 (Reported in the Straits Times 26 April 2018) (Family Law, matrimonial assets, jurisdiction of Family Justice Courts / Family Division of High Court)
and many other cases which can be found in www.brlawcorp.com
Contact:
DID: +65 6394 7856
Main: +65 6899 9888
E-mail: siva@brlawcorp.com
Ponnampalam Sivakumar
Director
Qualification:
LL.B (Hons), National University of Singapore
Year of Admission:
Advocate and Solicitor, Supreme Court of Singapore (1991)
P. Sivakumar has been in practice for more than 30 years. He is an Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore and a registered Singapore Patent Agent. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (U.K.) and a member of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators.
His practice specialties are corporate and commercial law, criminal law, intellectual property, information technology and media, tortious claims, insurance, employment, immigration and tax law. He has represented a diverse array of local and multinational clients in civil litigation and arbitration.
He has advised on block chain technology related matters as well as rendered opinions on coin offerings.
He has advised high net worth individuals and families on legal issues related to wealth planning and the setting up of trusts and family offices.
In his corporate and commercial practice he has been involved in advising on the setting up of tax effective business structures and on mergers and acquisitions. He has advised on various aspects of corporate governance issues including anti-trust, consumer protection and product liability. He has conducted programs for clients including financial institutions relating to personal data protection and privacy. He has advised on the sale and purchase of businesses and shares and has drafted documentation of various types of corporate financing structures including redeemable preference shares and convertible bonds.
Aside from contentious matters, Sivakumar also assists his clients in the drafting and review of their agreements relating to commercial transactions and intellectual property, including distributorships, franchises and licensing.
Sivakumar has been involved in advising local and multinational companies on various aspects of employment law including the drafting of template employment contracts as well as individualised employment contracts for key appointment holders.
With Sivakumar’s extensive corporate, finance and disputes expertise, he has advised and acted for liquidators in both compulsory and voluntary liquidation proceedings, including on issues such as directors’ duties, insolvent trading, and potential dissipation of assets. He has also advised and acted in proceedings with cross-border elements, having advised liquidators and creditors on the recovery of assets across jurisdictions.
Sivakumar has been a speaker at various conferences and forums on legal issues both locally and overseas.
Contact:
DID: +65 6394 7850
Main: +65 6899 9888
E-mail: bernarddoray@brlawcorp.com
Bernard Doray
Director
Qualification:
LL.B (Hons), University of Singapore
Year of Admission:
Advocate and Solicitor, Supreme Court of Singapore (1979)
Bernard is the managing-director of the law corporation. He worked for the Singapore Legal Service from 1976 to 1982 and served in various Legal Departments including the judiciary of the Subordinate Courts before going into private practice in 1982. He established the present practice in 1985 and undertook a variety of litigation and advisory work particularly representation of stockbrokers during the Pan-El crisis and defence of numerous commercial crime cases. He has undertaken a variety of civil and commercial litigation at both trial and appellate jurisdictions and advised as a solicitor on cross-border transactions for acquisition of assets in Malaysia, Philippines and Indonesia. Presently he undertakes trial work and advises clients on establishing business structures in Singapore including wealth management and business succession issues.
Bernard has also acted in numerous retail conveyancing transactions including mortgages and charges to all the main banks and the CPF board. He has also personally acted in major transactions in his career including an unincorporated joint-venture sale of land and buy back of apartments which is now known as 800 Thomson; acted for the developers in the sale of a block of apartments in the project known as South Haven; the sale of landed properties in the project known as Riverina; enbloc purchase and sale of Shan Mansions (Residential) at Balestier Road and enbloc sale of Dapenso Building (Commercial) at Cecil Street.
Others
He has served the Law Society in various roles since he started practice. He has acted for the Society in the prosecution of professional misconduct cases and now regularly chairs Inquiry Committees to investigate and hear complaints against lawyers. He has served previously on the Society’s Cross Border and Multi-Disciplinary sub-committees as well as the International Relations Committee. He also tutors regularly in the Post Graduate Law Course for law graduates and is a sub-committee member of the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce and Singapore Institute of Directors. He has served as an independent director of a publicly listed company and presently holds non-executive board appointments of several privately held companies. Bernard was appointed a member of the Income Tax Board of Review in 2011.
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- 4 Battery Road, #29-00 Bank of China,
- Singapore 049908
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