Yanguang Ker
Yanguang is a Director in Prolegis LLC and the Deputy Head of Litigation for the Herbert Smith Freehills Prolegis Formal Law Alliance.
Yanguang is a disputes lawyer specialising in advising clients on high-value and complex commercial disputes. He is skilled at giving tailored, practical advice to domestic and international clients to manage and tackle their issues at all stages of a dispute, as well as representing them as counsel in litigations and arbitrations before the Singapore Courts and major international arbitration institutions. In addition to his disputes expertise, he also has an active employment law and white-collar criminal practice.
Clients and peers have described Yanguang as an “up-and-coming next generation commercial litigator and one to watch” (Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024: Dispute Resolution), having a “deep knowledge of the law and a tenacious drive to secure the best outcome for his clients” (Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2023: Dispute Resolution), being a “formidable lawyer” who “delivers results” (Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2022: Labour & Employment) and as a "rising star in the realm of investigations" (Legal 500 2021: Labour & Employment)."
He has particular expertise in the fields of arbitration-related litigation, professional negligence litigation, asset freezing litigation, cryptocurrency disputes, private equity disputes and construction disputes. Yanguang has acted for a diverse portfolio of clients across numerous sectors, including state-owned entities, global multi-national corporations, venture capital funds and wealthy individuals in the marine, energy, infrastructure, technology and consumer industries.
Yanguang also regularly advises on all aspects of employment law including employment agreements, responsible retrenchments, post-termination restrictions, employee terminations and settlements, employment handbooks and investigations into alleged employee wrongdoing.
His practice also covers advising on regulatory investigations relating to anti-money laundering and anti-corruption legislation, and white-collar criminal defence. He volunteers as counsel with the Legal Assistance Scheme for Capital Offences (LASCO) in Singapore.
Background
Yanguang graduated from the National University of Singapore with an LLB (Hons). He is an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court in Singapore and a Solicitor, England and Wales.
Experience & expertise
Selected matters
- representing a state-owned energy company in the enforcement of a US$120 milllion arbitral award against a Philippine conglomerate
- successfully defending a firm of professional engineering consultants in a US$25 million negligence claim in the Singapore Courts over the construction of the mechanical & electrical systems of a data centre
- acting for an EPC contractor in a dispute over the applicability of EU sanctions on Russia in relation to the construction of a US$1.5 billion methanol plant in Russia
- acting for the owner of an oil & gas terminal in Sharjah, the United Arab Emirates in US$30 million delay and variation claims against the main contractor in an ICC arbitration
- successfully acting for a venture capital growth fund in pursuing US$7.5 million claims against their investee companies in the Singapore Courts
- acting for US venture capital funds in pursuing multimillion-dollar claims against their Singapore investee companies specialising in artificial intelligence
- successfully setting aside an arbitral award in the Singapore Courts over claims for IT security services provided to a world-famous cryptocurrency exchange for breaches of natural justice and arbitral procedure
- successfully prosecuting a US$7 million claim for fraud in the Singapore International Commercial Court over the purchase of an offshore bank for cryptocurrency trading
- co-author of “The Evolution of the Singapore Courts’ Analysis of Whether an Issue is ‘Alive’ in Challenges to Arbitral Awards” [2022] SAL Prac 23
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