Goh Hui Hua | Covenant Chambers

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Contact

huihua.goh@covenantchambers.com

Office: +65 6635 8885

Focus Areas

Commercial & Property Disputes

• Business, Shareholders & Partnership Disputes

• Property Ownership & Trust Disputes

• Tenancy Matters

Construction & Engineering

• Construction & Engineering

Tech, Media & IP

• IP, Media & Entertainment

• IP & Confidentiality Infringement Disputes

Corporate, Commercial & Financial

• Investments, Banking & Finance

Employment and Investigations

• Employment

Private Client

• Legacy Planning: Wills & Trusts

• Probate & Estate Administration

• Matrimonial Law

Disputes & International Arbitration

• Civil Litigation

• Criminal Defence

• Mediation

• International Arbitration

• Fraud & Asset Recovery

• Restructuring & Insolvency

Medical Negligence & Personal Injury

• Personal Injury & Accident

Memberships

• Member, Law Society of Singapore

• Member, Singapore Academy of Law

• Member, Law Society Civil Practice Committee 2024

Accolades & Awards

• SILE Part B Bar Examinations Distinction and Top Student for Family Law (2017)

• NUS Kent Ridge Undergraduate Scholarship (2012 – 2016)

• NUS Centre for the Arts Student of the Year (2015)

• NUS Law Year 1 Rodyk & Davidson Moots Top 10 Finalist (2013)

Education / Qualifications

• Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore (2017)

• LLB (Hons), NUS (2016)

Goh Hui Hua

Associate Director

Hui Hua started his legal career as a part-called trainee who appeared extensively before the courts. After being called to the Singapore Bar in 2017, Hui Hua acted and continues to act as lead counsel for various general litigation matters (including a matter wherein a judgment was successfully obtained for a sum of approximately S$6.3 million). As a result, Hui Hua is armed with significant on-the-ground advocacy experience right from the start of his legal career, having conducted cross-examination in the District Court and argued before High Court Judges since his first year of practice.

Hui Hua’s experience has allowed him to provide holistic solutions to his clients which take into account the legal aspects, as well as the commercial and practical considerations, of each matter.

Hui Hua firmly believes that quality legal representation need not come at a high cost, and strives to provide an avenue for clients who are looking for cost-efficient solutions.

Hui Hua’s practice covers a wide range of matters, including commercial and civil disputes, family law, criminal law, insolvency law and employment law.

Sample Cases

Property Ownership & Trust Disputes

• Represented shareholders of a family-owned company which held a shophouse property (valued at approximately $8,400,000) in a shareholder’s dispute.

• Acted as lead counsel for a Claimant in a claim to reduce the credit limit of an overdraft facility which was secured via a mortgage on a landed property (valued at approximately S$5,000,000).

• Acted as lead counsel for Third Party Claimants in claiming beneficial interests in a landed property (valued at approximately S$4,800,000) which was sought to be included as part of matrimonial assets to be divided in Divorce Ancillary Matters.

• Advising a Claimant on purchasing the interests of the other co-owners of a shophouse property (valued at approximately S$4,500,000).

• Representing a Defendant Wife to resist a court-ordered sale of the matrimonial landed property (valued at approximately S$4,000,000) which is in the joint names of the Claimant Husband and the Co-Defendant Daughter on the basis of a Deserted Wife’s Equity, proprietary and promissory estoppel, a contractual license under a will, and the Su Emmanuel test.

• Acted as lead counsel in obtaining a local freezing injunction against 3 defendants (i.e. prohibiting the disposal of their assets worldwide up to the value of USD 1,217,000) in the High Court in a claim on the grounds of conspiracy by lawful or unlawful means, breach of fiduciary duties, knowing receipt, dishonest assistance, breach of contract and unjust enrichment relating to an overseas property investment scheme.

Business, Shareholders & Partnership Disputes

• Acted as lead counsel in advising on the wrongful termination of an agreement to engage the client as a developer of a cryptocurrency protocol under the Solana blockchain whereby payment for the engagement was to be made in cryptocurrency.

• Represented a company listed on the Mainboard of the Singapore Stock Exchange in a series of lawsuits involving issues relating to the issue of Performance Shares, and misrepresentations leading to the entering of a sale and purchase agreement over a Company.

• Represented a tuition business owner and his company in a High Court lawsuit involving issues of contractual interpretation, director’s duties, passing off and conspiracy (Tuitiongenius Pte Ltd v Toh Yew Keat and another [2020] 5 SLR 354; [2019] SGHC 264).

• Represented a tuition business owner and his company in an appeal to the Court of Appeal involving issues of contractual interpretation, director’s duties, passing off and conspiracy (Tuitiongenius Pte Ltd v Toh Yew Keat and another [2021] 1 SLR 231; [2020] SGCA 103).

Employment & Investigations

• Acted as lead counsel in advising a top-performing trader who left his previous employer for a competitor on the enforceability of restraint of trade and confidentiality clauses in his previous employment contract.

• Advised an engineering solutions company on claims to be made against errant employees and suppliers who conspired to derive kickbacks from purchases made by the company.

• Represented a company in claiming for damage to brand equity and losses sustained in mitigating such damage arising out of breaches of employee and fiduciary duties on part of a previous employee.

• Represented a state-owned joint venture company in claiming for a fraudulent conspiracy orchestrated by the former CEO and Managing Director, CFO, another Director of the company and a supplier to channel funds out of the company.

Private Client

Matrimonial & Family Law

• Acted as lead counsel in enforcing a foreign divorce agreement and order relating to the division of a Singapore condominium (valued at approximately S$1,400,000).

• Acted as lead counsel in seeking to include an HDB Flat (valued at approximately S$630,000) and a Commercial Property (valued at approximately S$680,000 as part of the matrimonial pool of assets to be divided in the Divorce Ancillary Matters via Third-Party Interests Proceedings in the General Division of the High Court).

• Acted as lead counsel in enforcing a maintenance order against a defaulting Respondent who was working within an international organisation and obtained an order for imprisonment if the Respondent continued to default in making maintenance payments in the following months.

Probate & Estate Administration

• Acted as lead counsel in a High Court application to declare a procedurally irregular CPF nomination as legally valid and to restrain the CPF Board from disbursing the CPF funds pending the determination of the matter by the High Court (Toh Tun Li Adeline v Central Provident Fund Board and another [2023] SGHC 55).

• Acted as lead counsel for Deputies in obtaining approval from the Family Justice Courts to make a statutory will for a mentally incapacitated person.

• Representing Executors in admitting a copy of a Last Will and Testament for purposes of obtaining the Grant of Probate in circumstances where the original Last Will and Testament could not be found.

Regulatory Appeals

• Represented an appellant in an Appeal against the Council of Estate Agents’ refusal to renew the license of a real estate agent.

• Represented an appellant in an Appeal to the Liquor Appeal Board in respect of a liquor licence granted to a beverage store within a coffee shop.

Disputes & International Arbitration

Cross-Border Matters

• Acted as lead counsel in a High Court application to set aside an order granting leave to enforce a Singapore International Arbitration Centre arbitration award of approximately USD 7,000,000 on grounds of breach of natural justice and fraud.

• Represented a Plaintiff in a claim for approximately USD 24,000,000 involving conflicts of law issues crossing over the jurisdictions of New York, Delaware, and Mauritius.

• Acted as lead counsel in advising on the intended enforcement of a foreign judgment amounting to approximately €21,500,000 against a Sovereign State.

Restructuring & Insolvency

• Represented Liquidators in an application by funding creditors to obtain priority over other creditors pursuant to Section 328(10) of the Companies Act.

• Represented the Liquidator in an action to void a charge and claw back transactions based on Section 330 of the Companies Act and/or unfair preference and/or transaction at an undervalue.

• Acting as lead counsel for a Liquidator in advising on issues relating to the priority of payments to be made vis-à-vis a government authority and a floating charge holder in a court-ordered liquidation where receivers were also appointed by the floating charge holder.

Civil Litigation

• Representing a wallet holder in claiming cryptocurrency assets (valued at approximately S$6,300,000) held in a wallet service provider which discontinued its wallet services after it had been acquired by a new corporate entity.

• Acted as lead counsel in a High Court Appeal from the District Court in a breach of contract and misrepresentation claim for approximately S$220,000.

• Acted as lead counsel in an application for an Expedited Protection Order under the Protection from Harassment Act 2014.

• Represented a private banker and senior relationship manager in a High Court lawsuit involving issues of fraudulent misrepresentation (Liu Yanzhe and another v Tan Eu Jin and others [2019] SGHC 67).

Published Judgments

• Acted as lead counsel in a High Court application to declare a procedurally irregular CPF nomination as legally valid and to restrain the CPF Board from disbursing the CPF funds pending the determination of the matter by the High Court (Toh Tun Li Adeline v Central Provident Fund Board and another [2023] SGHC 55)

• Represented a tuition business owner and his company in a High Court lawsuit involving issues of contractual interpretation, director’s duties, passing off and conspiracy (Tuitiongenius Pte Ltd v Toh Yew Keat and another [2020] 5 SLR 354; [2019] SGHC 264).

• Represented a tuition business owner and his company in an appeal to the Court of Appeal involving issues of contractual interpretation, director’s duties, passing off and conspiracy (Tuitiongenius Pte Ltd v Toh Yew Keat and another [2021] 1 SLR 231; [2020] SGCA 103).

• Represented a private banker and senior relationship manager in a High Court lawsuit involving issues of fraudulent misrepresentation (Liu Yanzhe and another v Tan Eu Jin and others [2019] SGHC 67).

Media Mentions

• “Puzzling that CPF nomination automatically revoked by marriage but not divorce, says judge”, The Straits Times (8 March 2023)

• “Court orders man's CPF savings to go to daughter instead of estranged ex-wife despite failed nomination”, Channel News Asia (8 March 2023)

• “老翁生前提名女儿受益未成 高庭仍令公积金局发放款项”, Zaobao (9 March 2023)

• “$32m luxury goods scam: 6 civil cases filed to recover money paid for Rolex watches, other items”, The Straits Times (14 September 2022)

• “追讨市镇会巨额损失诉讼明天开审 学者：这场诉讼对工人党“赌注颇高”, Zaobao (4 October 2018)

• “怒告他人诽谤代价有多大 ?”, Zaobao (5 August 2018)

Articles

• Case Update: High Court declares procedurally irregular CPF nomination to be legally valid

Goh Hui Hua

Associate Director

Hui Hua started his legal career as a part-called trainee who appeared extensively before the courts. After being called to the Singapore Bar in 2017, Hui Hua acted and continues to act as lead counsel for various general litigation matters (including a matter wherein a judgment was successfully obtained for a sum of approximately S$6.3 million). As a result, Hui Hua is armed with significant on-the-ground advocacy experience right from the start of his legal career, having conducted cross-examination in the District Court and argued before High Court Judges since his first year of practice.

Hui Hua’s experience has allowed him to provide holistic solutions to his clients which take into account the legal aspects, as well as the commercial and practical considerations, of each matter.

Hui Hua firmly believes that quality legal representation need not come at a high cost, and strives to provide an avenue for clients who are looking for cost-efficient solutions.

Hui Hua’s practice covers a wide range of matters, including commercial and civil disputes, family law, criminal law, insolvency law and employment law.

Sample Cases

Property Ownership & Trust Disputes

• Represented shareholders of a family-owned company which held a shophouse property (valued at approximately $8,400,000) in a shareholder’s dispute.

• Acted as lead counsel for a Claimant in a claim to reduce the credit limit of an overdraft facility which was secured via a mortgage on a landed property (valued at approximately S$5,000,000).

• Acted as lead counsel for Third Party Claimants in claiming beneficial interests in a landed property (valued at approximately S$4,800,000) which was sought to be included as part of matrimonial assets to be divided in Divorce Ancillary Matters.

• Advising a Claimant on purchasing the interests of the other co-owners of a shophouse property (valued at approximately S$4,500,000).

• Representing a Defendant Wife to resist a court-ordered sale of the matrimonial landed property (valued at approximately S$4,000,000) which is in the joint names of the Claimant Husband and the Co-Defendant Daughter on the basis of a Deserted Wife’s Equity, proprietary and promissory estoppel, a contractual license under a will, and the Su Emmanuel test.

• Acted as lead counsel in obtaining a local freezing injunction against 3 defendants (i.e. prohibiting the disposal of their assets worldwide up to the value of USD 1,217,000) in the High Court in a claim on the grounds of conspiracy by lawful or unlawful means, breach of fiduciary duties, knowing receipt, dishonest assistance, breach of contract and unjust enrichment relating to an overseas property investment scheme.

Business, Shareholders & Partnership Disputes

• Acted as lead counsel in advising on the wrongful termination of an agreement to engage the client as a developer of a cryptocurrency protocol under the Solana blockchain whereby payment for the engagement was to be made in cryptocurrency.

• Represented a company listed on the Mainboard of the Singapore Stock Exchange in a series of lawsuits involving issues relating to the issue of Performance Shares, and misrepresentations leading to the entering of a sale and purchase agreement over a Company.

• Represented a tuition business owner and his company in a High Court lawsuit involving issues of contractual interpretation, director’s duties, passing off and conspiracy (Tuitiongenius Pte Ltd v Toh Yew Keat and another [2020] 5 SLR 354; [2019] SGHC 264).

• Represented a tuition business owner and his company in an appeal to the Court of Appeal involving issues of contractual interpretation, director’s duties, passing off and conspiracy (Tuitiongenius Pte Ltd v Toh Yew Keat and another [2021] 1 SLR 231; [2020] SGCA 103).

Employment & Investigations

• Acted as lead counsel in advising a top-performing trader who left his previous employer for a competitor on the enforceability of restraint of trade and confidentiality clauses in his previous employment contract.

• Advised an engineering solutions company on claims to be made against errant employees and suppliers who conspired to derive kickbacks from purchases made by the company.

• Represented a company in claiming for damage to brand equity and losses sustained in mitigating such damage arising out of breaches of employee and fiduciary duties on part of a previous employee.

• Represented a state-owned joint venture company in claiming for a fraudulent conspiracy orchestrated by the former CEO and Managing Director, CFO, another Director of the company and a supplier to channel funds out of the company.

Private Client

Matrimonial & Family Law

• Acted as lead counsel in enforcing a foreign divorce agreement and order relating to the division of a Singapore condominium (valued at approximately S$1,400,000).

• Acted as lead counsel in seeking to include an HDB Flat (valued at approximately S$630,000) and a Commercial Property (valued at approximately S$680,000 as part of the matrimonial pool of assets to be divided in the Divorce Ancillary Matters via Third-Party Interests Proceedings in the General Division of the High Court).

• Acted as lead counsel in enforcing a maintenance order against a defaulting Respondent who was working within an international organisation and obtained an order for imprisonment if the Respondent continued to default in making maintenance payments in the following months.

Probate & Estate Administration

• Acted as lead counsel in a High Court application to declare a procedurally irregular CPF nomination as legally valid and to restrain the CPF Board from disbursing the CPF funds pending the determination of the matter by the High Court (Toh Tun Li Adeline v Central Provident Fund Board and another [2023] SGHC 55).

• Acted as lead counsel for Deputies in obtaining approval from the Family Justice Courts to make a statutory will for a mentally incapacitated person.

• Representing Executors in admitting a copy of a Last Will and Testament for purposes of obtaining the Grant of Probate in circumstances where the original Last Will and Testament could not be found.

Regulatory Appeals

• Represented an appellant in an Appeal against the Council of Estate Agents’ refusal to renew the license of a real estate agent.

• Represented an appellant in an Appeal to the Liquor Appeal Board in respect of a liquor licence granted to a beverage store within a coffee shop.

Disputes & International Arbitration

Cross-Border Matters

• Acted as lead counsel in a High Court application to set aside an order granting leave to enforce a Singapore International Arbitration Centre arbitration award of approximately USD 7,000,000 on grounds of breach of natural justice and fraud.

• Represented a Plaintiff in a claim for approximately USD 24,000,000 involving conflicts of law issues crossing over the jurisdictions of New York, Delaware, and Mauritius.

• Acted as lead counsel in advising on the intended enforcement of a foreign judgment amounting to approximately €21,500,000 against a Sovereign State.

Restructuring & Insolvency

• Represented Liquidators in an application by funding creditors to obtain priority over other creditors pursuant to Section 328(10) of the Companies Act.

• Represented the Liquidator in an action to void a charge and claw back transactions based on Section 330 of the Companies Act and/or unfair preference and/or transaction at an undervalue.

• Acting as lead counsel for a Liquidator in advising on issues relating to the priority of payments to be made vis-à-vis a government authority and a floating charge holder in a court-ordered liquidation where receivers were also appointed by the floating charge holder.

Civil Litigation

• Representing a wallet holder in claiming cryptocurrency assets (valued at approximately S$6,300,000) held in a wallet service provider which discontinued its wallet services after it had been acquired by a new corporate entity.

• Acted as lead counsel in a High Court Appeal from the District Court in a breach of contract and misrepresentation claim for approximately S$220,000.

• Acted as lead counsel in an application for an Expedited Protection Order under the Protection from Harassment Act 2014.

• Represented a private banker and senior relationship manager in a High Court lawsuit involving issues of fraudulent misrepresentation (Liu Yanzhe and another v Tan Eu Jin and others [2019] SGHC 67).

Published Judgments

• Acted as lead counsel in a High Court application to declare a procedurally irregular CPF nomination as legally valid and to restrain the CPF Board from disbursing the CPF funds pending the determination of the matter by the High Court (Toh Tun Li Adeline v Central Provident Fund Board and another [2023] SGHC 55)

• Represented a tuition business owner and his company in a High Court lawsuit involving issues of contractual interpretation, director’s duties, passing off and conspiracy (Tuitiongenius Pte Ltd v Toh Yew Keat and another [2020] 5 SLR 354; [2019] SGHC 264).

• Represented a tuition business owner and his company in an appeal to the Court of Appeal involving issues of contractual interpretation, director’s duties, passing off and conspiracy (Tuitiongenius Pte Ltd v Toh Yew Keat and another [2021] 1 SLR 231; [2020] SGCA 103).

• Represented a private banker and senior relationship manager in a High Court lawsuit involving issues of fraudulent misrepresentation (Liu Yanzhe and another v Tan Eu Jin and others [2019] SGHC 67).

Media Mentions

• “Puzzling that CPF nomination automatically revoked by marriage but not divorce, says judge”, The Straits Times (8 March 2023)

• “Court orders man's CPF savings to go to daughter instead of estranged ex-wife despite failed nomination”, Channel News Asia (8 March 2023)

• “老翁生前提名女儿受益未成 高庭仍令公积金局发放款项”, Zaobao (9 March 2023)

• “$32m luxury goods scam: 6 civil cases filed to recover money paid for Rolex watches, other items”, The Straits Times (14 September 2022)

• “追讨市镇会巨额损失诉讼明天开审 学者：这场诉讼对工人党“赌注颇高”, Zaobao (4 October 2018)

• “怒告他人诽谤代价有多大 ?”, Zaobao (5 August 2018)

Articles

• Case Update: High Court declares procedurally irregular CPF nomination to be legally valid

Contact

huihua.goh@covenantchambers.com

Office: +65 6635 8885

Focus Areas

Commercial & Property Disputes

• Business, Shareholders & Partnership Disputes

• Property Ownership & Trust Disputes

• Tenancy Matters

Construction & Engineering

• Construction & Engineering

Tech, Media & IP

• IP, Media & Entertainment

• IP & Confidentiality Infringement Disputes

Corporate, Commercial & Financial

• Investments, Banking & Finance

Employment and Investigations

• Employment

Private Client

• Legacy Planning: Wills & Trusts

• Probate & Estate Administration

• Matrimonial Law

Disputes & International Arbitration

• Civil Litigation

• Criminal Defence

• Mediation

• International Arbitration

• Fraud & Asset Recovery

• Restructuring & Insolvency

Medical Negligence & Personal Injury

• Personal Injury & Accident

Memberships

• Member, Law Society of Singapore

• Member, Singapore Academy of Law

• Member, Law Society Civil Practice Committee 2024

Accolades & Awards

• SILE Part B Bar Examinations Distinction and Top Student for Family Law (2017)

• NUS Kent Ridge Undergraduate Scholarship (2012 – 2016)

• NUS Centre for the Arts Student of the Year (2015)

• NUS Law Year 1 Rodyk & Davidson Moots Top 10 Finalist (2013)

Education / Qualifications

• Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore (2017)

• LLB (Hons), NUS (2016)

What Our Clients Are Saying

• “I am very grateful for all the help I received from Hui Hua, Ezra and the team from Covenant Chambers. I highly recommend Hui Hua and Ezra as they are highly professional and have offered me advice in a calm, but encouraging tone which is exactly what I need throughout this whole process. Hui Hua is also super meticulous with my affidavit and is able to articulate with great clarity on what I wanted to put across.”

• “I was extremely satisfied with the legal services provided by Covenant Chambers. From the initial consultation to the final resolution of my case, Hui Hua and the team demonstrated exceptional professionalism, knowledge and dedication. Their expertise was evident in their ability to provide clear and actionable advice. The team were always available to answer my questions and address my concerns promptly. Their professionalism, coupled with their supportive approach, made the challenging situation much easier to navigate. I am truly grateful for their help in negotiating a favourable settlement on my behalf. I wholeheartedly recommend their services.”

• “I had an excellent experience with Covenant Chambers LLC and would highly recommend their legal services. Mr Goh and his team managed my matter promptly and professionally with attention to detail and expertise. They were also friendly and supportive throughout the process. I highly recommend this firm.”