Our Expertise
Company, Director & Shareholder Disputes
We regularly act for companies, directors, shareholders, and professionals in a broad spectrum of commercial disputes.
We are always in your corner from the board room to the Court room. In certain circumstances, alternative dispute resolution may be preferred to litigation to achieve your desired outcomes in the most cost-effective manner.
We listen to your needs and will help you to obtain commercially sensible and practical solutions. We frequently act for various players and are roped in by fellow professionals to act in matters involving:
- Listed and private companies
- Hostile takeovers
- Calling and conducting of board meetings or shareholder meetings
- Misuse of company assets, funds and resources
- Diversion of corporate opportunities
- Minority oppression of shareholders
- Breaches of directors’ duties
- Shareholders’ rights to dividend payments, access to documents and information
- Management control and deadlock
- Share buyouts
Notable Cases by Mr Favian Kang
- Acted for the board of directors of ASTI Holdings Limited to defeat a hostile takeover by shareholders who conducted an extraordinary general meeting by excluding the board. Persuaded the General Division of the High Court that section 177 of the Companies Act does not give shareholders the power to conduct an extraordinary general meeting. In awarding costs to the board, the General Division observed that our written submissions for the board were “more cogent”.
- Acted for the independent directors of Fu Yu Corporation Limited in a hostile shareholder’s requisitions for extraordinary general meetings to remove the independent directors.
- Acted for the directors and shareholders of a prominent construction company against an opposing shareholder and director in a dispute involving the company’s assets, corporate governance and the winding up of the company.
- Acted for a group of shareholders of 2 popular food-and-beverage companies (which are home to supercar enthusiasts’ clubs) in convening extraordinary ordinary general meetings to remove directors and appoint new directors to take over control of the companies.
- Acted for a group of shareholders in the requisitioning of an extraordinary general meeting of Ecowise Holdings Limited.
- Acted for a group of medical doctors in a dispute involving management control, dividend payments and unfair buyout offer and obtained a winding up of a private medical practice on the just and equitable ground.
- Acted for a Singapore-China joint venture finance company and its shareholders and directors in a dispute over misuse of company assets, breach of fiduciary duties, and breach of confidence. Negotiated and obtained a favourable settlement.
- Acted for a shareholder and director of an insurance company against other shareholders and directors in a dispute over dividend payments, management rights, and valuation of shares. Negotiated and obtained a favourable buyout.
- Acted for the minority shareholders and directors of a construction and property development company against the majority shareholder and director in a dispute involving conduct of an extraordinary general meeting, use of company assets, and change of business.
- Acted for a Singapore company and its shareholders and directors against other shareholders and directors and a joint venture partner in a dispute over a joint venture real estate project in Hangzhou involving breach of directors’ duties and minority oppression.
