Leonard Loh

Director

  • Leonard Loh
  • Phone: +65 6311 0073

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  • Selvam LLC
    16 Collyer Quay #17-00
    Singapore 049318

Leonard Loh is a Director in the Litigation, Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Practice Group of Selvam LLC.

Leonard’s main areas of practice are in commercial, employment and family disputes. He has substantial experience in handling local and cross-border contentious matters involving financial products, boardroom battles and employment disputes (including matters relating to salaries and benefits, workplace investigations and termination / redundancy exercises). His wide spectrum of clients range from multinational corporations and regional construction companies, to family businesses and high-net-worth individuals. He has represented such clients in such disputes at all levels of the Singapore judicial system, as well as in domestic and international arbitrations, mediations, neutral evaluations and adjudications.

Leonard’s deep interest and expertise in family disputes have also seen him acting for local and foreign individuals in heavily-contested divorce, guardianship, relocation, maintenance, personal protection order, adoption and estate administration applications, many of which involve cross-border and foreign law elements. On a number of these cases, he also worked with foreign counsel, child representatives and governmental agencies for the commissioning of specific reports. He has also contributed articles to the Singapore Law Gazette regarding probate and administration issues. Leonard is also an Associate Member with the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP).

He graduated with 2nd Class Honours (Upper) from the National University of Singapore in 2014 and was admitted to the Singapore Bar in 2015. He was placed on the Director’s List in 2013, when on exchange with the Centre for Transnational Legal Studies in London, UK.

Leonard is fluent in English and Mandarin.

Areas of Practice

  • Civil and Commercial Litigation

  • Employment

  • Private Client Services

  • International Arbitration

  • Alternative Dispute Resolution

Representative Matters

    Commercial Disputes

  • Acted for a Singapore fund management company, its director and its Cayman Islands incorporated fund in multiple litigation matters in the General Division of the High Court and the State Courts. Key victories include obtaining interim and final injunctions to restrain the commencement of winding up proceedings, and obtaining a winding up order against a key debtor by fending off allegations of conspiracy to trigger defaults.

  • Acted for a branch of a prominent Singaporean family in a minority oppression claim before the General Division and the Appellate Division of the High Court, and parallel proceedings for the removal of executors in the Family Division of the High Court.

  • Acted for a high net worth Singaporean individual in a dispute with a securities firm and remisier, involving allegations of misrepresentation and negligence.

  • Acted for a subsidiary of a NASDAQ-listed company in a Delaware-seated SIAC arbitration, which was eventually resolved at mediation.

    • Employment Disputes

  • Acted for a prominent Singapore company in respect of allegations of misuse of confidential information by its ex-employee.

  • Advised a multinational corporation and it subsidiaries on various employment matters, including issues on employee benefits, transfer of employees and review of employment contracts.

  • Advised a subsidiary of a global conglomerate in respect of allegations of constructive dismissal and breaches of fair employment practices.

  • Advised a major Singapore F&B brand on various employment matters, including issues of clawbacks, staff solicitation by ex-employees and review of employment contracts. Briefs also include cross-border advice on operations in ASEAN, Hong Kong and the United States.

    • Family Disputes

  • Acted for two New Zealanders in a successful application to recognise a New Zealand Enduring Power of Attorney, resulting in vesting orders and a limited deputyship order made pursuant to paragraph 7 of the Second Schedule to the Mental Capacity Act 2008.

  • Acted for a British-Hong Kong individual in various applications in the Family Court and the Family Division of the High Court. The latest victory related to, among other things, the successful striking out of enforcement claims and dismissal of variation of child maintenance claims. Decision reported in VEG v VEF [2024] SGHC 14.

  • Acted for various members of a prominent Singapore family in a contentious probate dispute before the Family Division of the High Court, successfully defending allegations of invalidity of the patriarch’s will and codicil. Decision reported in WHR and another v WHT and others [2023] SGHCF 32.

  • Acted for various individuals and navigated them towards partial or full settlement of the divorce and/or ancillary matters, including the obtaining of an interim judgment under the new ground of Divorce by Mutual Agreement.

Admissions

  • Singapore

Education

  • National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law, LL.B., 2nd Class Honours (Upper), 2014

Experience

  • Selvam LLC
    - Director, 2025-present
    - Associate Director, 2023-2025
    - Senior Associate, 2022-2023
  • Tan Kok Quan Partnership
    - Senior Associate, 2018-2022
    - Associate, 2015-2017

Professional Activities

  • YSIAC
    - Member, February 2022-present
  • Law Society of Singapore
    - Member, Probate Practice Committee, January 2022-present

Civic and Charitable Activities

  • Assistant General Secretary, Probate Practice Committee, Law Society of Singapore, January 2022-present
  • Member, Community Legal Clinics Committee, Law Society Pro Bono Services, January 2022-present
  • Criminal Legal Aid Scheme, Defence Counsel, May 2015-present

Selected Publications