Wong Thai Yong

Thai Yong is a litigator that handles a broad range of disputes including commercial, criminal, family, and even constitutional matters. He believes in providing affordable, yet attentive and conscientious legal services to anyone in need of the same. Accordingly, he shapes his practice around taking on a limited number of cases so that he can always pay his utmost attention to each of them. This also allows Thai Yong to be there for his clients and act swiftly when urgent legal advice and representation is needed.

Thai Yong has acted for and advised clients in disputes at all levels of the Singapore Courts, from the Small Claims and Employment Claims Tribunals all the way up to the Court of Appeal. He has also acted for clients in international arbitrations in the Singapore International Arbitration Centre.

The notable matters in which Thai Yong has been involved include:

Commercial Disputes

  • Acting for a former employee of an international conglomerate in a dispute involving reputational damage caused by the conduct of internal investigations against said employee.

  • Acting for a former employee of a leading international spyware company in an employment dispute involving alleged breaches of said employee’s non-competition clause.

  • Acting for a private equity firm in an employment/contractual dispute arising out of alleged breaches of confidentiality and non-competition clauses.

  • Acting for a former senior employee of a unicorn in an employment dispute regarding the terms of said employee’s remuneration package.

  • Acting for a company and a shareholder in a dispute involving breaches of a settlement agreement entered into with the company’s former directors and shareholders for the sale of said company’s shares.

  • Acting for an investment partner in a dispute involving alleged breaches of fiduciary obligations in an investment in Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs).

  • Acting for an international e-commerce company based in Indonesia in an arbitration regarding the implementation of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Warehouse Management System (WMS) by an implementation partner.

  • Acting for a judgment creditor in enforcing a writ of seizure and sale against a judgment debtor while facing a competing writ of seizure and sale on the same property.

  • Acting for a small and medium sized enterprise (SME) in multiple tenancy disputes with its landlords during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Acting for victims of scams, separately involving the sale of luxury goods and multilevel marketing (MLM).

Criminal Matters

  • Defending an accused person against criminal charges for corruption of a member of the Indonesian Embassy in Singapore.

  • Defending an accused person against criminal charges for voluntarily causing hurt to a public servant to prevent the latter from discharging his duty.

  • Defending an accused person against criminal charges for cheating.

  • Acting for an accused person facing charges of animal cruelty.

  • Acting for an accused person facing charges for road rage.

Family Matters

  • Acting for a husband in a contentious divorce involving over $20 million in matrimonial assets.

  • Acting for a wife in applications for a Personal Protection Order (PPO) and Domestic Exclusion Order (DEO) against the husband.

  • Acting for a potential beneficiary under a will in an application for a statutory will.

  • Acting for a father in preventing his wife from abducting their child to a foreign country.

Constitutional Matters

  • Mounting a constitutional challenge on s 377A of the Penal Code, which criminalises acts of gross indecency between two men.

 

Education

National University of Singapore, LLB (Hons)