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Joshua is in his fourth year of practice, dual-qualified in Singapore (2022) and England & Wales (2026). He does commercial disputes, mostly cross-border and seated in Singapore: technology and digital-asset disputes, alongside shareholder disputes, trade finance and banking fraud, restructuring and insolvency, and arbitration.

Specialisations

01. Trade finance & banking fraud

Complex trade-finance fraud and banking disputes – letters of indemnity, documentary credits, and claims arising from structured commodity financing gone wrong.

02. Restructuring, insolvency & asset recovery

Acting for liquidators and provisional liquidators on post-insolvency recovery, creditor engagement and asset preservation – including interpleader proceedings over competing claims to ~S$3.8 billion in oil cargoes, and a heavily contested judicial-management application concerning claims of over US$60 million.

03. Civil fraud, asset tracing & interim relief

Defending unjust-enrichment, knowing-receipt and express-trust claims and related derivative and committal proceedings – including setting aside a worldwide Mareva injunction to restore a client’s control over its assets.

04. International & domestic arbitration

SIAC-administered arbitration and related court proceedings, including a Court of Appeal challenge to the setting aside of an arbitral award on natural-justice grounds.

05. Shareholder, partnership & fund disputes

Multi-jurisdictional shareholder, partnership and investment-fund disputes across Asia and offshore – from minority oppression claims, drawdown and subscription-agreement claims to leading the defence and counterclaim strategy in a directors’-duties dispute.

06. Cryptocurrency & digital assets

Digital-asset recovery where insolvency meets new technology – tracing cryptocurrency across custodial wallets and exchanges, proprietary and trust claims over stablecoins and cryptocurrencies.

Reported decisions

Banque de Commerce et de Placements SA v China Aviation Oil (Singapore) Corp Ltd

[2024] SGHC 145 · reported [2025] 1 SLR 1146

A US$19 million trade-finance fraud claim acting for the plaintiff bank, through a 28-day High Court trial – reported on the construction of representations in letters of indemnity.

Credentials

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