
Yew Fai runs Y F Tan & Co himself and handles each matter from start to finish. His practice is litigation, with an emphasis on corporate disputes such as shareholders' disputes, contractual claims and debt claims, and he also acts for individuals in contentious divorces and their ancillary matters, contentious probates, negligence suits and criminal charges. Alongside court work, he advises companies and their directors and shareholders on business sales, shareholders' and partnership agreements, employment contracts and tenancy agreements.
Family litigation · Corporate litigation · Corporate & commercial advice
Cases handled
Family and probate2
- Acting for ex-spouses in contentious divorces including in respect of disputes of custody, division of matrimonial assets, maintenance and for application for personal protection orders;
- Acting for families in contentious probates;
Corporate and commercial disputes6
- Acting for minority shareholder of a company in an oppression action, claiming for appropriate relieves;
- Acting for shareholder to protect/enforce his interests in the winding-up agreement of a company;
- Acting for employer in claim for damages and injunctions against ex-executive for breach of confidential information/trade secrets and other terms of employment;
- Defended employee in action by employer for breach of employment contract;
- Acting for contractors in claims for work and services rendered, labour supplied;
- Acting for goods/cargoes owners in claims for loss of the goods/cargoes in respect of breaches of bailment and/or contract for storage at warehouses;
Property and tenancy4
- Acting for tenant of an entire industrial building against landlord for wrongful repudiation of tenancy and to claim for damages arising therein;
- Acting for tenant of industrial land to claim for damages for wrongful termination of lease;
- Defended client in an action against him for breach of trust relating to real property;
- Defended apartment owner in negligence suit involving water leakages;
Criminal1
- Defended clients on theft, forgery, CBT, road traffic charges.