Rishwant Singh

On the court record

A corporate and insolvency litigation practice with a distinctive derivative-action and bankruptcy component.

Rishwant Singh practises in corporate and insolvency litigation, appearing mainly in the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi) with some Court of Appeal (Mahkamah Rayuan) work, and the reported decisions record appearances as plaintiff, respondent, intervener, appellant and defendant. Company and insolvency law is central: the reported matters engage winding-up and the provisions in "section 464" of the Companies Act 2016, together with bankruptcy proceedings — including a matter arising from a bankruptcy notice — and the broader insolvency framework.

A distinctive strand concerns derivative actions: the reported matters include leave to commence a derivative action, the procedure by which a member is permitted to sue on the company's behalf for a wrong done to it. There is also arbitration and probate work. Appearing on many sides of the record and as intervener, the practice is instructed by companies, creditors, members and estates, in matters that turn on the governing statute and on the procedural framework for insolvency, derivative claims and the administration of estates.

The work turns on the interpretation of the Companies Act and the insolvency and probate frameworks. In the winding-up matters the argument concerns whether the statutory grounds are made out; in the derivative-action matters whether leave should be granted for a member to sue on the company's behalf; in the bankruptcy matters the validity of the notice and the process; and in the arbitration matters whether a dispute must be referred. The reported reasons frequently address the procedural machinery of corporate insolvency and the protection of the company's interests.

The overall profile is a corporate and insolvency litigation practice with a distinctive derivative-action and bankruptcy component, conducted principally at first instance in the High Court. The matters turn on the Companies Act, the insolvency framework, and the procedure for derivative actions, rather than on any criminal or public-law dimension, marking a practice built around corporate insolvency and the remedies available to members and creditors.