Southeast Asia - Singapore

TSMP Law Corporation

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TSMP Law Corporation frequently advises a range of financial institutions, multinationals, and large Singapore corporates. It has close links to a number of international law firms. The firm’s estimable client base brings it a wealth of engagements across the transactional, advisory, investigatory, and dispute resolution fields. It has a history of acting for clients in headline employment disputes, including restrictive covenant cases, wrongful dismissal claims, and breach of non-competition, confidentiality, and fiduciary duties. In non-contentious matters, the firm has extensive experience in employee stock option plans, retrenchments and redundancies, and industrial relations issues. Ian Lim is a genuine specialist in labour and employment, while associate director Nicholas Ngo is an emerging talent.

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Testimonials

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  • 'TSMP is a dynamic and diverse team, each individual playing to their strengths and also confident to be vulnerable.'
  • 'The partner, Ian Lim, has great insights and is very resourceful in attending to any legal issues.'
  • 'Ian Lim and his team are very business savvy and understand client' needs and requirements. This is exactly why TSMP is our go-to law firm.'
  • 'Each individual is unique coming in with their varied expertise. This helps to review a legal issue at various angles as opposed to single-minded view with the other merely executing such view.'
  • 'Ian Lim is comfortable to listen and encourage his team members to take the lead and gives due credit and that is a good leadership.'

Key clients

  • Accor
  • DHL
  • IBM
  • Emerson
  • Samsonite
  • Seagate
  • Marsh & McLennan
  • Citibank
  • Air Liquide
  • Kyndryl

Work highlights

  • Advised TEHO International and its subsidiary TEHO Water on its investigations into endemic corporate fraud and related misconduct iTEHO Water’s ex-managing director.
  • Acted for Lightnet in a Singapore High Court Suit resisting and ultimately settling its ex-employees’ $1.4m claim for cryptocurrencies allegedly due to them as contractual incentives.

Lawyers

Leading individuals

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Ian Lim

Other key lawyers

Felicia Tan, Thio Shen Yi SC, Nicholas Ngo