Wong Pei Ting
Partner
Pei Ting is a disputes lawyer whose practice includes corporate and commercial litigation, international arbitration, and restructuring and insolvency.
Her primary focus is on complex contentious matters, providing tailored and specialised advice and support to clients across a wide range of industries. Her experience includes acting in cryptocurrency disputes, banking and trust disputes, shareholder disputes, breaches of directors’ duties, and other high stakes commercial and cross-border claims. Aside from her civil litigation work, she has also acted in white-collar crime defence and advised clients on employment, investigations and restructuring and insolvency matters.
Pei Ting was selected for the Supreme Court of Singapore’s Young Independent Counsel Scheme in 2022, and was appointed Young Independent Counsel in a Magistrate’s Appeal heard before a coram of three High Court judges concerning fraudulent evasion of import GST.
She is a contributing author to The Restructuring Review and Singapore Civil Procedure.
Pei Ting graduated from the University College of London in 2015 with an LL.B. (Hons) degree (First Class Honours), where she received the academic prize for Contract Law.
Work Highlights
- Acted for a professional trust company in a complex, cross-border suit brought by the former Prime Minister of Georgia, in connection with alleged fraud, breach of trust, forgery and criminal mismanagement on trust assets exceeding US$1 billion.
- Acted for the liquidators in a successful clawback action in the Singapore High Court against the company’s former directors and shareholders for unfair preference transactions and breaches of fiduciary duties.
- Acted for the minority shareholders of a well-established local construction company in an action for minority oppression, and successfully obtaining an interim injunction against the majority shareholders from obstructing the minority shareholders’ exercise of their powers as directors.
- Acted for the subsidiary of an Asian listed healthcare provider in a Singapore International Arbitration Centre arbitration against its joint venture partner in relation to breaches of a shareholders’ agreement for a hospital facility in India.
- Advised a listed aquafarming company in its scheme of arrangement.
- Defended a C-suite executive charged with offences under the Securities and Futures Act.
- Advised a statutory body on an investigation into misconduct, including allegations of conflict of interest, harassment, misuse of resources and other improper practices.