“His advice was a combination of efficiency and commercial practicality.” and “His high level of professionalism instilled strong confidence.” – Legal 500
Jared is a well-established dispute resolution lawyer who focuses on high-stakes private wealth disputes. He has 15 years of experience assisting affluent individuals and families to protect their investments and business interests.
Recognised as one of Asia’s Top 50 Dispute Lawyers by Asian Business Legal 2025, Jared is commended for his “strategic handling of multi-jurisdictional cases” and ability to deliver impactful results by combining deep expertise, sharp insight, and practical judgment.
Bringing an attitude of stewardship and discretion to every matter he handles, Jared is adept at navigating sophisticated wealth structures, complex business vehicles, and dynamic relationships that accompany conflicts over an affluent individual and family’s sources of wealth. He is known to deliver solutions that are filtered by commercial rigor and weighted with a sensitivity to inter-personal dynamics. Clients commend Jared for his “experience and confidence in proceedings,” his “competitive breadth of knowledge” and his “strategic approach and meticulous attention to detail”.
Jared is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a Full Member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, and an Independent Director of an Institution of Public Character.
EXPERIENCE
Family Business Disputes
- Successfully defended a family from a S$50 million arbitration claim arising from the sale of a family-owned waste-to-energy business
- Represented a regional die cut family business before the Singapore Court of Appeal and successfully resist an appeal on grounds that the matter was functus officio
- Represented a family business in cross-appeals before the Singapore Court of Appeal and successfully reduced the quantum of an adverse judgement sum to nominal damages
- Represented the majority shareholders in a family-owned construction business in valuation proceedings and successfully argued against the application of discounts for lack of control and marketability in the valuation of shares to be purchase under a consent ordered buyout
- Successfully acted for a family in a US$2.4 billion arbitration fraud claim arising from the sale of a family-owned pharmaceutical company
Trust, Asset Management, and Investments Disputes
- Advised a professionally managed $100 million charitable trust and successfully rebuffed a beneficiary charity’s allegations of improper use of trust assets, improper distributions, and demands for an account
- Represented an investor in a Malaysian hotel development project in a claim for fraud and successfully obtained repayment of all investments with interest
- Advisor to a venture capital fund and successfully resolved a dispute with a Fintech portfolio company and its lead investors arising from attempts to change the terms of a shareholders’ agreement
- Successfully advised a leading cryptocurrency exchange and enabled the client to substantially recover losses suffered from the collapse of Three Arrows Capital
- Represented a seed investor in an abortive project to develop a platform to deliver near real time news verification and successfully resisted a claim to enforce alleged investment commitments
- Advisor to a Cayman segregated portfolio company in a dispute with an investment manager concerning the management and successfully facilitated the migration of US$800 million in assets to new management
- Represented a trustee services company and successfully resolved an arbitral claim arising from payments made by the client pursuant to falsified payment instructions received from a spoofed email account
- Represented a bond investor in a claim for fraudulent misrepresentation against the issuing company and its directors, and successfully recovered the investment
- Represented the creditor in a disputed loan investment and successfully recovered the full loan amount
- Represented a client in shareholder and corporate control disputes over fund management company and successfully enable the client to retain control
- Advisor to a trustee services company on subrogation rights under a bank loan
- Successfully represented a private bank in defending against claims for unauthorised currency trading
Conflicts in the Administration of Estates
- Successfully resolved disputes among beneficiaries over the validity of a will and the testamentary capacity of the testator
- Successfully acted for a beneficiary in court proceedings to obtain an account from an uncooperative administratrix and to subsequently remove and replace the administratrix
- Advised to an executor on the administration of a multi-geographical estate and successfully resisted challenges to the validity of the will on grounds of revocation
- Advising to an executor in an action to remove an uncooperative co-executor
- Acted for a family’s private investment holding company, successfully secured the discharge an ex-parte injunction over $500 million in assets, and coordinated strategies with estate proceedings in Estonia and insolvency proceedings in Northern Ireland
- Advised a Singapore private bank on obligations with respect to investment accounts held by a senior member of the Bahraini royal family prior to his passing and on communications with surviving family members
Shareholder & Joint Venture Disputes
- Successfully resolved a shareholder in a dispute over a company manufacturing military and controlled equipment
- Successfully acted for a NYSE listed company in an international trade dispute with a Japanese conglomerate, and secured and enforced a favourable arbitral award
- Acting for a majority shareholder in arbitrations arising from a joint venture to construct, develop and operate an integrated marina, residential and commercial development in MoDao Island, China
- Successfully represented a substantial shareholder in a dispute over the corporate control of a Singapore public listed company
- Represented shareholders in a joint venture dispute over the construction and development of an iconic mix-use property development in Singapore and successfully resisted an application by hostile shareholders to wind up the joint venture
Other Commercial Disputes
- Successfully acted for a leading airline food caterer in the Singapore International Commercial Court and before the Singapore Court of Appeal and obtained anti-suit injunctions to restrain Korean proceedings commenced in breach of an arbitration agreement
- Successfully acted for an insurance company in a multibillion-dollar claim against a former agency leader in a dispute arising from the mass solicitation of an agency group
- Successfully acted for the Singapore branch of a Malaysian bank in a US$70 million claim arising from the fraudulent presentation of documents under a letter of credit
- Acting for a French group of companies in resisting a former employee’s claims for retrenchment benefits
- Successfully acted for a former employee of an Israeli FinTech group and enabled the client to recover unpaid commissions
- Successfully acted for a commodities trading company in numerous arbitration and litigation proceedings in connection with claims arising from the actions of a rogue trader and enabled the company to enter restructuring
- Successfully represented a local bank in defending claims for misrepresentation and contravention of the Financial Advisers Act
- Successfully acted for a commodities trading company and invoked the Singapore High Court’s inherent case management powers to stay court proceedings in favour of arbitration
- Disputes counsel on a team advising a large social media and messaging platform on the launch of their P2M services.
- Successfully acted for secured creditors and receivers of the OW Bunker Group in numerous arbitration and litigation proceedings in connection with the recovery of assets secured under a US$700 million credit facility following the collapse of the group
- Successfully represented a Malaysian-listed company and its Singapore subsidiary in defending fraud and conspiracy claims brought by the Singapore Comptroller of Income Tax
- Successfully represented a Malaysian government-linked company in pursuing an arbitral claim against an Indonesian government-linked insurer under a credit insurance policy
- Successfully defended a “big four” accounting firm against an arbitral claim for psychiatric harm commenced by a former partner in the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre
- Advised the Inquiry Committee of a government-linked company on investigations into a sexual harassment complaint made against a senior board member
- Represented an advertising company in a trial against a former employee and successfully resolved disputes concerning the enforcement of restrictive covenants and payment of employee benefits
REPORTED DECISIONS
- Asiana Airlines, Inc v Gate Gourmet Korea Co, Ltd [2024] SGCA(I) 8
- Gate Gourmet Korea Co, Ltd v Asiana Airlines, Inc [2023] SGHC(I) 23
- Prudential Assurance Co Singapore (Pte) Ltd v Tan Shou Yi Peter [2021] SGHC 109
- Retrospect Investment (S) Pte Ltd v Lateral Solutions Pte Ltd [2020] SGCA 15
- Liew Kit Fah and others v Koh Keng Chew [2019] SGCA 78
- Koh Keng Chew v Liew Kit Fah [2018] SGHC 262
- Shanghai Turbo Enterprises Ltd v Liu Ming [2018] SGHC 172
- Biofuel Industries Pte Ltd v V8 Environmental Pte Ltd [2018] SGCA 28
- BASF Intertrade AG Singapore Branch v H&C S Holding Pte Ltd [2017] SGHCR 10
- Biofuel Industries Pte Ltd v V8 Environmental Pte Ltd [2017] SGHC 184
- ARX v Comptroller of Income Tax [2016] SGCA 56
- Precious Shipping Public Co Ltd v OW Bunker Far East (Singapore) Pte Ltd [2015] SGHC 187
- Choo Liang Haw v Chua Seet Mui [2015] SGHC 47
MEMBERSHIPS / DIRECTORSHIPS
- Full Member, Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners
- Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
- Independent Director, EtonHouse Community Fund
