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 associates
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Leading partners
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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Ian Lim

Other key lawyers

Felicia Tan, Thio Shen Yi SC, Nicholas Ngo