Poon Pui Yee

Pui Yee is a Partner in our Litigation and Dispute Management Practice Group. She specialises in civil and commercial dispute resolution and is experienced in litigation, arbitration, and mediation.

She has experience in a wide range of contentious and non-contentious work involving various areas of law including company law (shareholder disputes, breaches of directors duties etc.), contracts, sale of goods and services, probate and administration of estate, employment, landlord-tenant, construction, insolvency, and insurance.

Her recent work/experience includes international commercial arbitration matters under various arbitration institutions such as in SIAC (Singapore International Arbitration Centre) as well as representing clients (both corporate and individuals) in Court proceedings at all levels, the Court of Appeal, the High Court, and the State Courts.

• Acted for an investment holding company listed on the Singapore Exchange in court proceedings involving an injunction to restrain the company from issuing or allotting shares in the company pursuant to subscription agreements. Issues and allegations raised in the proceedings included whether the company's directors and officers were acting in breach of their duties to the company.
• Acted for the President of the Singapore Hainan Hwee Kuan, in a dispute involving the winding up of the Kheng Chiu Tin Hou Kong and Burial Ground, a company limited by guarantee which holds tens of millions of dollars in assets. The case involves novel legal issues and is highly publicised in the local media as it is of great significance to the Hainanese community in Singapore and involved the unprecedented winding up of a public company limited by guarantee in Singapore. Thereafter, succeeded in achieving an amicable resolution of the long running dispute for the client through mediation and assisting the client on the implementation of a settlement agreement. (Phua Kiah Mai v The Kheng Chiu Tin Hou Kong and Burial Ground [2025] 4 SLR 1580).
• Acted for one of the parties in a multi-party contentious probate court proceedings involving a large estate that included a luxury watch business and several real properties. Successfully argued that there were suspicious circumstances such that there were reasonable grounds to oppose the testamentary instrument on the facts of the case such that parties should bear own costs of the dispute. (WHR v WHT [2023] SGHCF 32).
• Acted for an Indonesian company in a complex multimillion-dollar international arbitration dispute against a BVI company under the auspices of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre. The arbitration proceedings spanned more than 7 years and involved myriad substantive legal and procedural issues and court applications, including a jurisdictional challenge as well as an application for the setting aside of the arbitral award. (CKH v CKG [2022] SGCA (I) 4).
• Acted for a subsidiary of an MNC in the business of information technology systems in a dispute against its ex-employee and another company for breach of confidentiality obligations, lawful and unlawful means conspiracy, inducement of breaches of contracts etc., which involved a 26-day trial. Successfully obtained court orders for damages, account of profits and injunctions to restrain them from using or dealing with trade secrets and confidential / proprietary information. (3D Infosystems Pte Ltd (formerly known as 3D Networks Singapore Pte Ltd) v Voon South Shiong and another [2024] SGHC 237).