Gan Jhia Huei

Senior Associate 

Qualifications:
Wellesley College (B.A., Hons.) (2008)
Keble College, Oxford University (M.St.) (2009)
Singapore Management University (J.D., Hons.) (2015)

Admissions:
Singapore Bar (2016)

Jhia Huei is a generalist disputes lawyer. She has handled contentious matters in a variety of areas, including construction and engineering, banking and structured products, non-consensual restructuring, estate administration, hospitality, fine art auctions, shareholder derivative actions, and divorce. She also has experience in contract drafting, regulatory compliance and advisory matters. She enjoys writing and won the Singapore Law Gazette Best Feature Article prize in 2020.

Notable matters Jhia Huei has assisted with include:

  • Acting for the beneficiaries of an estate valued in excess of S$10 million and successfully advancing novel arguments on the Family Division of the High Court’s lack of jurisdiction to hear inter vivos undue influence claims;
  • Successfully acting for the plaintiffs in a complex and highly technical industrial accident dispute after taking over conduct of the matter in the midst of trial;
  • Acting for a foreign institutional client in various multi-million dollar cross-border claims arising out of trade finance facilities;
  • Successfully acting for an established Japanese department store in defending a multi-million dollar claim in a landmark suit involving the interpretation of commercial leases;
  • Acting for the defendant in resisting the setting aside of a multi-million dollar investor-state arbitration award involving novel points of law on the interpretation of investor-state treaties;
  • Successfully acting for institutional creditors in resisting an application for a cross-border restructuring moratorium in a landmark case on Section 210(10) of the Companies Act;
  • Successfully acting for foreign liquidators in Singapore’s first case on the common law recognition of liquidators from a company’s Centre of Main Interests;
  • Acting for the judicial manager of a SGX-listed oil and gas company.

Tel: +65 8727 4700
Email: jhiahuei@revlawllc.com