Team size: Six

Key team members: Nicholas Poa, Lee Seok Har, Yeo Hong Liang, Kwong Hiu Tung, Siti Puspa

Major legal advisers: Lee & Lee

What are the most significant cases or transactions that your legal team has recently been involved in?

This has been a very exciting year for the legal team. We were instrumental in ERA expanding its presence in Asia-Pacific and strengthening our leading position as Singapore’s largest listed international agency. We now have more than 22,000 agents in 648 offices across 11 countries.

From a transactions front, a particular highlight was ERA’s role in the collective sale of Chuan Park (S$890 million), which was the largest en-bloc transaction in Singapore since 2020.

We are also proud that ERA has leveraged technology and was the first estate agency in Singapore to launch a Legal AI feature on our super app for our salespersons. This has been highly well embraced and strengthens ERA’s position as a destination of choice.

Can you sum up the team culture or ethos?

Our culture is about providing maximum positive impact to our salesforce and clients. In this, we’re proud to be considered by the business as being part of the product and a reason why salespersons and clients choose ERA.

How does the in-house legal team contribute to the overall dispute resolution strategy of the organisation?

No one likes disputes – it is uncomfortable and often distracting for everyone involved. Nevertheless, even as ERA adopts a dispute-avoidance culture, disagreements may crop up from time to time. When this happens, we are trusted by the organisation to provide pragmatic and principled counsel.