Harold & Lam Partnership enjoys a sterling reputation for its construction group, part of its wider dispute resolution offering. Partner Wai Loon Lam is universally acknowledged as a leading figure in the construction adjudication circuit. He has been involved as counsel in numerous reported construction decisions and has been referred to as amicus curiae where novel questions of construction law are involved. For general commercial disputes, the firm has extensive experience working with clients in the consumer product and plant, equipment and machinery sectors. Recently, the department has seen an uptick in corporate disputes and insolvency litigation, and has worked on contentious matters involving medical negligence, finance and defamation.
Alongside Lam, the main partners helming the disputes practice are Serene Hiew, Harold Tan and Rohan Jeyabalah.
In the realm of construction, the team achieved a significant victory by representing Econpile in a RM60 million ($12.5 million) adjudication case against ASM Development. The dispute centered around payment for completed work and was pursued through adjudication under the Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication Act 2012. The outcome of this adjudication decision holds great importance as it solidifies a contractor's rights and recourse in situations where an employer fails to fulfil contractual obligations or breaches its duties.
Key clients include Kerian Solar, Pembinaan Leeping, SQA Builders and Sunline M&E Services.
