Leong Hao Ang promoted to partner at Rajah & Tann Asia
27 January 2021
Leong Hao Ang has been promoted to partner at Rajah & Tann Asia in Singapore, effective January 1, 2021. Ang specializes in commercial dispute resolution, and has advised and acted for clients in a wide range of commercial disputes, including investment disputes, shareholder disputes and technology-related disputes.
Ang has experience advising clients in cross border litigation and international arbitration matters, and regularly acts for and advises Mandarin-speaking clients from mainland China. He also acts for one of the casinos in Singapore and has experience with both casino-related litigation and gaming regulations in Singapore.
In 2020, he was seconded to the Asia Pacific litigation department of an international bank where he had experience managing complex cross-border internal and regulatory investigations arising out of securities trading.
He has acted for a security software company based in the United States in a dispute arising from a turnkey project for the design, supply, installation and commissioning of a surveillance system to be used in a casino; acted for the founder of a multi-million dollar biotechnology company with business interests in both Singapore and China in a shareholders’ dispute; and acted for a Chinese investment company in a claim arising out of an unauthorized and fraudulent access of its IT/email systems.
Arbitration-related litigation Ang has acted in include acting for a weapons manufacturer based in the United States as claimant in an SIAC arbitration for a claim arising from a contract for the supply of a military drone system, and acting for an electronics manufacturer based in Holland as claimant in an SIAC arbitration for a claim arising from the breach of an original equipment manufacturing agreement for the supply and distribution of surface mounter machines used in the electronics industry.
