Tham Hsu Hsien

Tham Hsu Hsien is a Partner at Allen & Gledhill LLP, specialising in dispute resolution. His main areas of practice are in professional indemnity, banking and employment litigation, and insolvency and restructuring. He advises professional indemnifiers and insurers in contentious and non-contentious matters, including localisation of insurance policies, and regularly acts for medical professionals in contentious malpractice claims in the Courts and disciplinary actions before the Singapore Medical Council. He also advises and acts for banks in major banking and trusts disputes, and in restructuring and insolvency matters, with particular interest and experience in restructuring of insolvent companies, banker-customer disputes, as well as restraining and discovery proceedings against banks. He also has an active contentious employment practice, with particular interest and experience in wrongful dismissal and restraint of trade matters.

He has acted successfully for receiver and managers in the litigation, restructuring, and sale involving a large aromatics plant in Singapore, and for a major bank in a High Court claim against the bank for recovery of an alleged fixed deposit placed with it. He has also acted as lead counsel for a Chinese chemicals import and export company in an ICC arbitration involving a multimillion dollar international sale of goods dispute, and successfully represented ex-directors in a High Court claim alleging breach of restraint of trade obligations and counter‑claim of wrongful termination. He also acted successfully for a senior surgeon in a medical malpractice claim which involved a major shift in the law with respect to the standard of care in cases of alleged negligent medical advice.

Tham Hsu Hsien holds an LL.B. (Hons) from the National University of Singapore and was admitted to the Singapore Bar in 2003. He was seconded to Fountain Court Chambers in England where he worked with senior barristers on major banking and insurance litigation and arbitration in London. He is fluent in written and spoken Mandarin, and has acted for Chinese clients in commercial litigation and arbitration.