Pung Kian Bang

On the court record

A construction-and-corporate litigation practice combining CIPAA adjudication with winding-up and option-agreement disputes.

Pung Kian Bang practises in construction and corporate litigation, appearing across the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi) and the Court of Appeal (Mahkamah Rayuan), with the reported decisions recording appearances as defendant, plaintiff, appellant, respondent and petitioner. A defining strand is building and construction law, including statutory adjudication under the Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication Act 2012 (CIPAA) — the fast-track payment regime for the construction industry — in which the reported matters include applications by developers and contractors over payment disputes.

The corporate side is also prominent. The reported matters engage winding-up petitions under the Companies Act 2016 — including the provisions in "section 465" governing the grounds for winding up — and call-and-put option agreements, the contractual mechanisms by which parties agree to buy or sell shares or assets on defined terms. Appearing on many sides of the record, the practice is instructed in construction-payment disputes and corporate matters, in disputes that turn on the construction of the building or option contract and the governing statute.

The work turns on the interpretation of construction and option contracts and on the CIPAA and companies frameworks. In the adjudication matters the argument concerns the adjudicator's jurisdiction and the grounds for enforcing or setting aside a decision; in the winding-up matters whether the statutory grounds are made out; and in the option matters the construction of the call-and-put terms and their enforceability. The reported reasons frequently turn on the payment machinery of the construction industry and the corporate insolvency framework.

The overall profile is a construction-and-corporate litigation practice conducted at first instance and on appeal, combining CIPAA adjudication with winding-up and option-agreement disputes. The matters turn on the construction contract, the CIPAA regime, and the Companies Act, rather than on any criminal or public-law dimension, marking a practice built around the payment and corporate machinery of commercial dealings.