Rahmat Lim & Partners

On the court record

Rahmat Lim & Partners appears in the reported judgments as a corporate, banking and commercial-litigation practice, working principally in the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi) with a smaller presence in the Court of Appeal (Mahkamah Rayuan) and acting most often for defendants. Civil procedure is the most frequent theme in its corpus — summary judgment under Order 14 of the Rules of Court 2012, applications testing whether a statement of claim discloses a reasonable cause of action, and pre-action discovery under Order 24 rule 7A. A distinct banking and finance strand runs through its work: disputes over demands on a bank guarantee, and a duty-of-care claim raising the Quincecare duty owed by a bank to a customer, arising from debit-card fraud affecting an elderly preferred customer, in litigation involving CIMB Bank Berhad. The firm also handles cross-border enforcement — the recognition of a summary judgment obtained in the Singapore courts against a judgment debtor — and company-law and injunction matters, including relief sought under section 30 of the Contracts Act. Its counterparties in the corpus are heavily corporate and international, including Olam Global Agri Pte Ltd, AAStar Trading Pte Ltd, Hitachi Zosen Corporation, Cypark Sdn Bhd, Affin Bank Berhad and Sakura Ferroalloys Sdn Bhd, reflecting a practice acting for and against substantial commercial and financial parties. It also appears in regulatory and capital-markets-adjacent matters and in the enforcement of security. Taken together, the reported matters describe a firm whose strengths lie in banking and finance disputes, corporate litigation and the procedural contests — summary judgment, discovery and cause-of-action challenges — that surround them. Its matters also include applications by a defendant to resist summary judgment on the footing of a bona fide triable issue, disputes turning on a "liberty to apply" clause in a consent order in litigation involving a group of plantation companies, and company-law relief sought by originating summons. The firm's presence on both sides of substantial banking and corporate disputes marks it as a practice equally at home acting for a lender or borrower and for a claimant or defendant, with the standard of care owed by a bank to a vulnerable customer among the more significant questions its corpus raises.