HO Yi Jie is a Partner in the Commercial & Corporate Disputes Practice.

His practice focuses on commercial litigation and international arbitration in a wide range of complex, high-value and multi-jurisdictional disputes, including in the areas of corporate and commercial, shareholder, investment and contractual disputes.

He is presently a member of the Young Members Working Group of the Singapore Academy of Law’s Professional Affairs Committee.

In 2023, he was seconded to Twenty Essex Chambers, London, where he worked closely with King’s Counsel on a variety of English law matters.

Yi Jie graduated from the National University of Singapore, having been placed on the Dean’s List and awarded the Punch Coomaraswamy Prize for being the top student in the Law of Evidence. He is admitted to the Singapore Bar.
 

Matters of significance which Yi Jie has been involved in include advising / acting for the following:

  • A big 4 accounting firm defending a professional negligence claim in excess of US$2.6 billion.
  • Raffles Education Group and its subsidiaries in successfully obtaining judgment (both at trial and on appeal before the Appellate Division of the High Court) in tort claims against individuals / directors connected with the Educomp Group who were found to have been involved in inducing the breaches of the underlying transaction documents.
  • One of the world’s largest commodities groups in relation to a large-scale metal financing fraud perpetrated against the group, with concurrent parallel proceedings taken out in England, Singapore, Malaysia and the Cayman Islands. Successfully secured an urgent freezing order over the assets of four defendants in Singapore up to the value of US$625 million, a proprietary injunction against funds totalling over US$189 million that were transferred to two of the defendants into their bank accounts in Singapore, and Norwich Pharmacal / Bankers Trust orders to facilitate asset tracing and policing of the said proprietary funds.
  • Macau and Dutch investors in the Laos gaming and hospitality industry against the Government of Laos in proceedings in the Singapore International Commercial Court to set aside awards rendered in two investment treaty arbitrations involving claims in excess of US$1.5 billion.
  • A Cayman Islands hedge fund based in Hong Kong in SIAC arbitration proceedings in successfully recovering its US$20 million investment in a blockchain / smart contract technology and financial products business which had been induced by a series of fraudulent misrepresentations.
  • A leading multinational energy company and its subsidiary against another global energy company (also one of the largest state-owned enterprises in China) and its subsidiary in proceedings in the Singapore International Commercial Court to set aside two partial arbitral awards rendered in respect of separate aspects of liability pursuant to a SIAC arbitration. The partial awards arise out of a claim of approximately US$5.5 billion for fraudulent misrepresentation, breach of warranties and recovery of losses under an indemnity in relation to a North Sea oil venture.
     

Related Practices

  • Commercial & Corporate Disputes

 

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Qualifications

National University of Singapore (LL.B. Hons)

Singapore Bar

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