Jeremy Yeap

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Jeremy represents and advises clients in infrastructure, engineering, and construction related disputes which arise from projects in Singapore and around the region.

He has represented developers, contractors, and construction professionals in international arbitrations under the SIAC, VIAC, ICC as well as ad-hoc rules, at all levels of the Singapore Courts, adjudications under Singapore’s Building and Construction Security of Payment Act, and at mediations. Jeremy also has experience representing and advising clients in a diverse range of matters. These include advising on schemes of arrangement, shareholder disputes, directors’ duties, liability for personal injury, and on criminal liability.

He has been an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore since 2015.

Experience

• Acting for a joint venture of Korean and Japanese contractors in a Vietnam International Arbitration Centre (“VIAC”) arbitration against a Vietnamese state-owned entity, in respect of claims for extensions of time and prolongation costs arising out of a mass rapid transit project in Vietnam.
• Acting for a joint venture of Korean and Italian contractors in dispute board proceedings under the FIDIC Suite of Contracts, against a Vietnamese state-owned entity, in respect of claims for extension of time and prolongation costs arising out of another mass rapid transit project in Vietnam. Acted for an Indonesian state-owned company in the foundry, manufacturing, and EPC sector in an ad-hoc arbitration against a Chinese contractor, in respect of claims concerning defects in a coal-fired power plant in Indonesia.
• Advised a European ventilation systems manufacturer in respect of two ad-hoc arbitrations against claims brought by the main contractor for supplying allegedly defective and / or improperly designed tunnel ventilation and tunnel jet fans for an undersea expressway in Singapore.
• Acted for a locally listed company in the mechanical engineering / plant fabrication & installation / maintenance service sector in the High Court of Singapore, in respect of claims for damages resulting from the breach of a contract to lease scaffolding materials / the conversion of scaffolding materials.
• Advised a Bangladeshi developer on project delivery, including in connection with interim entitlements, the termination of a contractor, and claims under security relating to a solar power plant in Bangladesh.
• Acted for a firm of quantity surveyors in the High Court of Singapore, in respect of claims for damages resulting from alleged conspiracy and professional negligence made by the main contractor of a residential project.
• Acted for a professional engineer in the High Court of Singapore, in respect of claims for loss of future earnings and for medical expenses made by a technician who had been electrocuted.
• Acted for several contractors in high-value adjudications under the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act.
• Represented Management Corporations, developers, main contractors and sub-contractors in the High Court of Singapore, in various disputes concerning defects in various condominiums and light industrial buildings in Singapore.