WongPartnership LLP

Commercial & Corporate Disputes; Intellectual Property Disputes

Leow Jiamin is a Partner in the Commercial & Corporate Disputes Practice.

Her practice involves a wide range of court and arbitration matters, ranging from commercial and corporate, cross-border, fraud, asset recovery, to intellectual property disputes. She is also fluent in Mandarin and regularly acts for Mandarin-speaking and Chinese clients.

Work Highlights

Matters of significance in which Jiamin has been involved in include acting/advising for the following:

The directors of a Brazilian entity in a complex multi-party purported derivative action arising from its proposed issuance of bonds in the amount of US$500 million in Singapore. The parties to the dispute are also involved in various related proceedings including proceedings in Brazil and the U.S., as well as an ICC arbitration. A payroll company with regional operations against former employees who misappropriated its confidential information. The Singapore Court of Appeal, in a landmark decision finding in favour of the company, departed from the long-standing legal test for breach of confidence and set out a modified approach under Singapore law. A subsidiary of a Singapore listed entity in the water industry against former employees who misappropriated its confidential information (and had started a competitor in China). The Singapore High Court adopted the modified approach under Singapore law and found in favour of the company. One of Singapore's largest clean energy companies with regional operations in defending against alleged patent infringement suits brought by a competitor. The reported judgments in this matter has re-shaped the interlocutory processes of patent litigation in Singapore, and includes a landmark decision by the Singapore Court of Appeal (full bench) finding that the High Court can hear patent revocation applications. Singapore-headquartered global mobile game publisher and Chinese-headquartered global game developer in separate instances, defending against an alleged intellectual property infringement in relation to extremely popular multiplayer online mobile games.

Publications & Legal Updates

NUS TRAIL – Enforcement Issues and Strategies in Crypto-Related Fraud and Asset Recovery Disputes (September 2023) WongPartnership CaseWatch – Cryptoassets Are Property and Can Be the Subject of a Trust – But Can They Be Enforced Against? (August 2023) CDR – Essential Intelligence: Fraud, Asset Tracing & Recovery 2023 (April 2023) ABLI-SAL Cryptoasset Series – Cryptoassets and Civil Procedure Law (Singapore edition) (January 2023) WongPartnership Special Update – Fraud and Asset Recovery: Cryptoassets; Guide to tracing, freezing and recovering stolen cryptoassets (March 2022) Informa Connect – Q&A with Professor Simon Chesterman on Artificial Intelligence and Fraud & Asset Recovery (26 January 2022) Singapore Law Gazette – When is it Time to Pay the Piper? Responding to Ransomware Attacks: Key Issues and Risks (September 2021)

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Jiamin currently serves in the Cybersecurity and Data Protection Committee, and Intellectual Property Committee of the Singapore Law Society, the Asset Recovery Next Gen Committee, and the ICC Singapore Arbitration Group Core Committee.

Admitted, Singapore Bar; Singapore Management University (J.D., Cum Laude); Nanyang Technological University (B. Eng, Hons.)