About
Yew Fai is a Corporate and Litigation Lawyer running his own legal practice, M/s Y F Tan & Co since the year 2000. Running his own practice also means that Yew Fai adopts a personal, direct, hands-on approach in addressing clients' instructions/needs, resulting in more effective and efficient resolutions to issues with more time and costs savings. In other words, clients get to actually :
- Talk directly to the actual lawyer i.e. Yew Fai handling their matters, thereby getting their concerns straight to their lawyer and hearing his advice first-hand personally;
- Instruct the very lawyer who goes to Court for their cases and/or handle their matters, and who will be handling their cases from their commencement to conclusion without delegation;
- Served by an actual court lawyer with more than 20 years of court experience throughout their cases.
M/s Y F Tan & Co has been deliberately kept small so that Yew Fai can give each client the personalised service he/she deserves, and we are proud of it. After all, 'it is the quality of the delegated mechanic rather than the size of the workshop that first and foremost determines the quality of repairs'. In the vast majority of cases, there is only one main conducting litigator at any one time. It also means that clients are not made to pay for multiple lawyers (from the same firm) for their cases. Furthermore, with technological advancement in the provision of legal services such as eFiling (of court documents) and web-based legal research, the advantages of being small, personal and nimble are even more profound.
Yew Fai's legal practice centers primarily on :
- Corporate litigation including shareholders' disputes, contractual disputes, debt claims etc. within or between corporations/companies;
- Litigation between individuals including tortious claims (e.g. negligence) and disputes involving trusts between individuals;
- Family litigation including contentious divorces, custody and/or maintenance disputes, contentious probates etc.;
- Advising clients, drafting of related agreements and/or conducting necessary due diligence on company matters such as sale & purchase of businesses/shares; shareholders' or partnership agreements, employment contracts, tenancy agreements and contracts/transactions between companies/corporations in industries such as construction, logistics, furniture, electrical and water works etc.;
- General solicitor's work.
Leveraging on his more than 20 years of hands-on Court Litigation experience, Yew Fai offers advice, drafting and litigation services to clients backed by practical and personal experience of the common disputes arising in various situations, possible solutions to these problems that had worked in similar situations, and some likely outcomes should the disputes proceed to court litigation i.e. corporate experience/advice backed by actual litigation experience, or vice versa.
Through the years, Yew Fai has built up a healthy working relationship with and has been serving a cohort of Small and Medium Enterprises ('SME') in a number of industries.
Services
Yew Fai specialises in Litigation with an emphasis on corporate litigation. He has extensive litigation experience in corporate disputes including shareholders' disputes, contractual disputes, debt claims, employment breaches etc. within or between corporations/companies, and advises clients on those areas.
He also regularly advises companies, directors, creditors, debtors, shareholders, executive employees and/or other entities on sale & purchase of businesses/shares; shareholders' or partnership agreements, employment contracts, tenancy agreements and contracts/transactions between companies/corporations in industries such as construction, logistics, furniture, electrical and water works etc. and has built up a healthy working relationship with and has been serving a cohort of Small and Medium Enterprises ('SME') in a number of industries.
His extensive litigation experience also allows him to regularly act and/or advise individuals on commonly encountered problems/issues such as contentious family disputes e.g. probates, divorces and the ancillary matters arising thereto, negligence suits and criminal charges etc..
Cases handled by Yew Fai include :
- Acting for tenant of an entire industrial building against landlord for wrongful repudiation of tenancy and to claim for damages arising therein;
- Acting for minority shareholder of a company in an oppression action, claiming for appropriate relieves;
- Acting for shareholder to protect/enforce his interests in the winding-up agreement of a company;
- Defended client in an action against him for breach of trust relating to real property;
- Acting for employer in claim for damages and injunctions against ex-executive for breach of confidential information/trade secrets and other terms of employment;
- Acting for tenant of industrial land to claim for damages for wrongful termination of lease;
- Acting for contractors in claims for work and services rendered, labour supplied;
- Defended employee in action by employer for breach of employment contract;
- Acting for goods/cargoes owners in claims for loss of the goods/cargoes in respect of breaches of bailment and/or contract for storage at warehouses;
- Acting for families in contentious probates;
- Acting for ex-spouses in contentious divorces including in respect of disputes of custody, division of matrimonial assets, maintenance and for application for personal protection orders;
- Defended apartment owner in negligence suit involving water leakages;
- Defended clients on theft, forgery, CBT, road traffic charges.