Audent Chambers is led by the well-respected senior counsel Harpreet Singh, who set up the firm with disputes specialist Jordan Tan in 2020. It is an advocates-only firm that focuses on high-quality strategic advice and advocacy to clients, frequently working alongside solicitors from the top domestic and international firms in Singapore and abroad. The team is well versed in high stakes, complex disputes that span areas such as banking and finance, insolvency, corporate disputes, fraud and misrepresentation, employment, injunctions and asset preservation, domestic and international arbitration, public law, and criminal law and procedure. They regularly appear before all levels of the Singapore Supreme Court and before the various international arbitral tribunals.
Co-managing partners Singh and Tan are the main contacts. Both were with Clifford Chance prior to the establishment of Audent.
The team is acting as instructed counsel for BP Singapore in multiple multi-million dollar claims by various international banks against the client involving transactions with former oil trading giant, Hin Leong Trading. These suits involve important questions of law relating to the role of letters of credit in the sale and purchase of goods, and the potential claims available to the issuing banks against the beneficiaries of letters of credits.
Golden Hill Capital and two individuals enlisted Singh, Tan and counsel Victor Leong for two different sets of proceedings concerning a judicial management and a civil claim for misrepresentation, breach of duties and fraud. The proceedings relating to the judicial management involved a novel point of law regarding circumstances when a judicial manager can be said to have acted in an unfairly prejudicial manner against a shareholder.
Recent clients include Credit Suisse,
Milaha Explorer and True Group Singapore.
Client feedback
“Timely and accurate advice.” – Labour and employment
Jordan Tan
“Quick and incisive.”
