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Partner, Braddell Brothers LLP (Singapore)LITIGATION & ARBITRATION COUNSEL Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore)LL.B (Hons), Singapore______________________________________________________________________________ Angelia started her legal career with us in 2015, and was made a Partner in 2020. She has acted for individual and corporate clients in a variety of contentious matters across a wide range of practice areas including commercial, shareholder and partnership disputes, corporate restructuring & insolvency, employment litigation / disputes, medical negligence / professional misconduct, and complex matrimonial litigation. Angelia has appeared at all levels of the Singapore Court as litigation counsel, and assisted in international commercial arbitration cases conducted under the rules of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre. In 2017, Angelia and Xiao Hongyu took part in the Essex Court Chambers / Singapore Academy of Law Moot Court Competition where they emerged quarter-finalists. Angelia’s notable cases including representing and advising :- One of the world’s leading manufacturers in the heating and cooling industry, in obtaining an urgent interlocutory injunction against its former employees in ongoing Singapore High Court proceedings involving inter alia claims for breach of confidence. A Singapore-incorporated mechanical engineering company and its Managing Director in a contractual dispute against a Singapore public-listed company, in claims exceeding S$10 million. One of the world’s largest chemical producers, in Singapore High Court proceedings against an iron-ore trading company based in Singapore for breaches of various circle-out/wash-out agreements, in SIAC arbitration in Singapore. Former-head of a prominent private equity firm based in Southeast Asia in claims against the firm arising from the partnership agreement, in SIAC arbitration in Singapore. A Singapore businessman in protracted matrimonial proceedings commenced by the wife in 2010, involving cross-border elements, including child relocation, jurisdiction disputes, anti-suit injunction and the enforcement of an antenuptial agreement signed by the parties in New York, U.S.A. and governed by the laws of New York. Former-head of a prominent private equity firm based in Southeast Asia in claims against the firm arising from the partnership agreement. The dispute was heard in the SIAC and concerned issues of good faith, contractual interpretation, agency under Cayman Islands law and other common law jurisdictions. Angelia also appears on behalf of the Singapore Medical Council and Council of Estate Agents in disciplinary proceedings for professional misconduct.http://www.braddellbrothers.com/people/angelia-thng

Edmund Jerome Kronenburg

Managing Partner, Braddell Brothers LLP (Singapore)LITIGATION & ARBITRATION COUNSEL |ARBITRATOR Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore)Solicitor (England & Wales)Rights of Audience, AIFC Court, Astana International Financial Centre (Kazakhstan)LL.B (Hons), SingaporeFCIArb, FSIArb, FMIArb, FAMINZ(Arb), FHKIArb, FPIArb, FAiADR____________________________________________________________________ Edmund began his legal career at Drew & Napier in 1997 and took on the mantle of Managing Partner of Braddell Brothers in 2009. As litigation counsel, Edmund is actively engaged in trial and appellate advocacy predominantly in Singapore’s High Court and Court of Appeal. He has also been instructed by other solicitors to act as Counsel. Edmund has argued against a variety of Senior Counsel in trials and other hearings, and against Queen's Counsel, successfully, in an appeal before the Singapore High Court in July 2012. He is privileged to be an invited Honorary Overseas Member of both COMBAR (Commercial Bar Association), England and the Chancery Bar Association, England, as well as an active member of the IADC (International Association of Defense Counsel), headquartered in Chicago. Edmund’s practice areas include commercial litigation and arbitration, pre-emptive relief and injunctions, medical negligence and misconduct, corporate insolvency and complex family and matrimonial litigation. Since 2010, Edmund and his team have been instructed on no less than 7 Worldwide Mareva Injunctions / Freezing Injunctions with a combined value of over USD 1 billion. Edmund and his team also acted for the Indonesian Lippo group’s First Media in successfully resisting the enforcement of over 99% of a USD250 million SIAC arbitration award obtained against it by the Malaysian Astro group, in Singapore. As arbitration counsel, Edmund represents clients in international arbitrations predominantly under the SIAC, ICC and UNCITRAL Rules. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (SIArb), Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators (MIArb), Arbitrators' and Mediators' Institute of New Zealand (AMINZ), Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators (HKIArb), the Philippine Institute of Arbitrators (PIArb) and the Asian Institute for Alternative Dispute Resolution (AiADR). Edmund also actively sits as an Arbitrator. His appointments include arbitrations in Singapore, Indonesia and Vietnam. He is admitted to the panels / lists of the AIAC (Malaysia, formerly KLCRA), BANI (Indonesia), BDAC (Brunei), CAA (Taiwan), HKIAC (Hong Kong), KCAB (Korea), IIAM (India), NCAC (Cambodia), PIAC (Vietnam), PDRC (Philippines), IMA (Russia), SCCA (Saudi Arabia), SHIAC (Shanghai), TAI (Thailand), VIAC (Vietnam) and VLCAC (Vietnam). Edmund has also received recognition in various legal directories, among them the Legal 500, Chambers & Partners, Best Lawyers, Asialaw Leading Lawyers and Whos Who Legal - Litigation. He has been variously described by the Legal 500 as “aggressive”, “articulate”, “good strategist”, “trusted confidant”, “good advocate”, “best in class”, having a “flair for arbitration” and providing "great, practical, no-nonsense advice in international arbitrations". Chambers & Partners Asia Pacific 2015 quotes one source as saying that Edmund “has the ability to think beyond the conventional and has brilliant ideas in terms of legal strategy” and also reports that Edmund “is a deeply experienced litigator” with an “ability to anticipate the reactions of the opposing party, thus helping clients to counter such reactions appropriately.” Asialaw describes Edmund as a “Market Leading Lawyer” in the field of Dispute Resolution & Litigation. Who’s Who Legal - Litigation 2018 says that Edmund “is one of Singapore's highest-regarded litigators and arbitration counsel.” Edmund also frequently gives talks and lectures on dispute resolution, arbitration and medical law. He has taught Medical Negligence at the DUKE-NUS Medical School since 2009 as well as Trial Advocacy and Cross-Examination at the NUS Law Faculty since 1997. Edmund is also an Honorary Legal Advisor to the Academy of Medicine, Singapore and a member of the Singapore Medical Association’s CMEP Teaching Faculty. Key Areas of Practice Corporate and Commercial litigation International arbitration Medical negligence & misconduct Tort litigation Employment litigation Corporate insolvency Injunctions – Mareva / Breach of confidence / Anti-Suit http://www.braddellbrothers.com/people/edmund-j-kronenburg

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