Alvin Tang Wye Keet

On the court record

Alvin Tang Wye Keet appears in the reported corpus as a company and commercial litigator, with freezing injunctions, minority oppression and contract enforcement among the reported matters at the High Court and Court of Appeal. His injunction work is visible in an application for a Mareva freezing injunction, where the court considered the established requirements — whether the plaintiff had a good arguable case, whether the defendant had assets within the jurisdiction and whether there was a real risk that those assets would be dissipated — a study in the exceptional relief that restrains a defendant from dealing with its assets before judgment.

His company work appears in a cluster of Court of Appeal appeals on minority oppression, in which he acted on both the respondent and appellant sides, raising whether removal from management with shares locked in was oppressive, whether a pending suit for misconduct against the minority barred an oppression action, whether the sale of shares to a new investor terminated a quasi-partnership on the facts, and whether a valuation expert should be subject to cross-examination where the original buyout order had not so provided. His contract work is illustrated by a matter on a letter of undertaking, where a plea of inadequate consideration failed and the court held that the defendants were bound by the four corners of the contract and estopped from disputing their obligations, allowing the originating summons. Across these reported decisions his work moves between the exceptional injunctive relief that preserves assets, the substantive law of shareholder oppression and the enforcement of contractual undertakings, marking Alvin Tang Wye Keet as counsel across company and commercial litigation. The reported matters, spanning the exceptional relief that freezes a defendant's assets, the substantive law of shareholder protection and the binding force of a contractual undertaking, mark a practice that ranges across the interlocutory and the substantive sides of company and commercial litigation.