Gan Jhia Huei

Qualifications:
Wellesley College (B.A., Hons.) (2008)
Keble College, Oxford University (M.St.) (2009)
Singapore Management University (J.D., Hons.) (2015)

Admissions:
Singapore Bar (2016)

Jhia Huei is a generalist disputes lawyer. She has handled contentious matters in a variety of areas, including construction and engineering, banking and structured products, non-consensual restructuring, estate administration, hospitality, fine art auctions, shareholder derivative actions, and divorce. She also has experience in contract drafting, regulatory compliance and advisory matters. She enjoys writing and won the Singapore Law Gazette Best Feature Article prize in 2020.

Notable matters Jhia Huei has assisted with include:

• Acting for the beneficiaries of an estate valued in excess of S$10 million and successfully advancing novel arguments on the Family Division of the High Court’s lack of jurisdiction to hear inter vivos undue influence claims;
• Successfully acting for the plaintiffs in a complex and highly technical industrial accident dispute after taking over conduct of the matter in the midst of trial;