Wayne Siang Chin Fong is one of the founding partners of Messrs. Wayne Siang, Kai & Co.
Wayne graduated with a law degree from University Of London in 2016, and passed his Certificate In Legal Practice as top 2% scorer in 2017.
Before deciding that his career should be in civil litigation, Wayne had the opportunity to learn to be a conveyancing lawyer as a pupil. However, halfway through his pupillage, he had already decided that conveyancing is unsuitable for him and he took a stand to restart all over as a pupil in the chamber of Messrs Kheng Hoe, under the guidance of Mr Chan Kheng Hoe, thereby picking up his knowledge in construction law and litigation.
Even though he was mainly handling construction disputes then, Wayne’s resourcefulness gave to his ability to handle disputes of different natures now. Currently, his primary area of focus is construction, employment, and corporate disputes.
Notable Experience
- Represented a local road work main contractor to restrain (injunction) the Employer’s call on its performance bond arising from the termination of its letter of award, which also involves issue of extension of time declined by the Employer and unlawful termination.
- Represented a local developer to oppose the main contractor’s injunction to restrain the developer from calling on its performance bond.
- Represented a local sub-contractor to claim for VO works instructed by the employer without instructional letters via CIPAA. Resisted subsequent setting aside by the developer as well.
- Represented a local main contractor to claim for the value of work done, and defending the LAD claim raised by the developer via CIPAA. Resisted the subsequent application for setting aside by the developer as well.
- Represented a local unlawfully terminated main contractor to claim for the value of work done for infrastructure works and loss and expense. Resisted the subsequent application for setting aside by the developer as well.
- Represented a local main contractor to resist a claim by a sub-contractor for the value of work done for facade works and loss and expense.
- Represented architect firms to claim for outstanding professional fees, where the project(s) were aborted after bidding.
- Represented contractors/sub-contractors to wind up the employers/contractors upon succeeding in their claim successfully.
- Represented individuals to claim in the Industrial Court against their former employer for unlawful terminations.
- Represented the founding director/shareholders in a plc to resist the malicious takeover by other shareholders of the company.
Qualification
- Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) – University of London
- Certificate of Legal Practice