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Harry Elias Partnership LLP (HEP) acted as legal counsel to Singapore Medical Group (SMG) in the voluntary conditional cash offer by Pure Beauty Investment Limited.   CIMB Bank Berhad, Singapore Branch (“CIMB”) for and on behalf of Pure... [More]

Harry Elias Partnership LLP (HEP) acted as legal counsel to Singapore Windsor Holdings Limited (Singapore Windsor) in the mandatory unconditional cash offer by Mr Ho Kwok Wai, a transaction valued at approximately $22 million.  Provenance... [More]

Harry Elias Partnership LLP (HEP) successfully represented Marina Bay Sands (MBS) in the first casino debt trial in Singapore. The win by MBS means that it can recover the $240,000 it extended as credit to a patron, Mr Lester Ong Boon Lin.... [More]

Matrimonial & Family Law Head and Partner, Ms Foo Siew Fong was successful in helping a mother obtain care and control of her younger son in a bitterly contested legal battle. In the Judgment released, Justice Judith Prakash in her Grounds... [More]

Please join us in congratulating Mr Harry Elias on being awarded The Public Service Medal 2013 (Pingat Bakti Masyarakat) for this year's Singapore National Day Awards. The Public Service Medal which was instituted in 1973 may be awarded to any... [More]

Partner Koh Tien Hua acted in a pivotal divorce case successfully getting monies awarded to a divorcee to be paid out from her husband’s CPF account in advance despite restrictions imposed by the CPF Act then. Mr Koh acted for the Wife, a former... [More]

Champerty – when a lawyer agrees to help a client on the basis that he gets a share of the proceeds from a case if it is successful – is currently forbidden in Singapore although it has been decriminalized or abandoned in several Western jurisdictions... [More]

We are pleased to announce that Ms Neilia Tan is now the new Partner of Brunei HEP Law Office with effect from 1 June 2014. Ms Tan brings with her, extensive experience in civil, commercial and criminal litigation, both during private practice... [More]

In a recent transaction, Harry Elias Partnership LLP acted for an indirect wholly–owned subsidiary of Guthrie GTS Limited in the acquisition of a key investment asset, a 7-storey commercial building located in the central business district of Singapore... [More]

In a recent payment dispute between two contractors, Harry Elias Partnership LLP assisted a substructure contractor in successfully resisting a main contractor’s application to the High Court to set aside an Adjudication Determination obtained pursuant... [More]