Area of Expertise

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Hari is a seasoned litigator in high stakes commercial disputes. He has acted at all levels of the Singapore courts, in international arbitration tribunals, and before special tribunals. 

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He has considerable expertise in shareholder disputes, technology disputes and claims involving commercial fraud. His experience also extends to acting in white collar crime matters and conducting internal investigations for financial institutions and large multinational corporations. 

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Prior to joining Collyer Law to launch the disputes practice, Hari worked at several leading law firms in Singapore, including most recently with eminent Senior Counsel for more than four years. Hari also spent a short stint at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London, where he assisted various financial institutions with their regulatory investigations and applications.

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Hari graduated from the National University of Singapore with an L.L.B (Hons). During his final year, Hari participated in the International Criminal Court Moot Court Competition in The Hague, Netherlands, where he was issued two awards for his oral advocacy in the competition: the Best Victims’ Legal Representative and the Overall Best Oralist for the Preliminary Rounds. 

 

Hari also actively commits time to pro bono work. He regularly works as defence counsel for accused persons under the Criminal Legal Aid Scheme. Most recently, he acted for a foreign construction worker in pursuing claims against his former lawyer who misappropriated monies belonging to the construction worker.

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Interests​

Outside of practice, Hari enjoys playing football and running after his two young children, who do their best to keep him fit and agile.

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Representative Experience​

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• Acted for the founder of a luxury resort group in the Maldives (worth almost US$300million) in a dispute with the group’s private equity investor before the Singapore International Commercial Court. 

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• Represented a blockchain protocol in defending a US$40million SIAC arbitration claim brought by a Canadian billionaire. The claim pertained to the purchase of US$40million worth of altcoin tokens. 

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• Acted for the claimant in a S$30million claim against the shareholders of a waste management business over the defendants’ failure to complete a sale transaction for the business. 

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• Acted for the claimants in obtaining a worldwide freezing order for US$10m involving the freezing of cryptocurrency assets. This was one of the first reported judgments of a Mareva injunction over cryptocurrency assets: The Micro Tellers Network Limited v Cheng Yi Han [2020] SGHC 130.

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• Acted for a company in liquidation in successfully recovering monies from the company’s directors which had been misappropriated in breach of the directors’ fiduciary duties: Prometheus Marine Pte Ltd (in liquidation) v Pickering, Alan John [2024] SGHC 293

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• Acted for Lalit Modi, the founder of the Indian Premier League, in successfully resisting attempts to mount claims for defamation and malicious falsehood that related to publications in India and the United Kingdom that had no nexus to Singapore: Daniel Maag v Lalit Kumar Modi [2024] SGHC 311.

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• Acted for the defendant in successfully defending claims for minority oppression relating to the “Tong Garden” snack food business, both before the High Court and the Court of Appeal: Ong Heng Chuan v Ong Teck Chuan [2020] SGHC 161, [2020] SGCA 41

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• Conducted internal investigations for a French multinational corporation to help uncover a fraudulent scheme perpetrated by members of the procurement team. Subsequently represented the corporation in disposal proceedings before the Court and successfully obtained the release of monies seized by the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau as restitution.

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• Acted for individual directors of a public listed company in disciplinary proceedings brought by the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited over alleged breaches of the Catalist Rules. The clients were acquitted on appeal. This was the first fully contested hearing before the Listings Disciplinary Committee and the Listings Appeals Committee.