Construction and engineering expert Yvonne Foo has left Clyde & Co, where she was a legal director, to rejoin Harry Elias Partnership as a partner in Singapore.

She is Harry Elias Partnership’s first partner hire since its split from Eversheds Sutherlands in June, ending the three-year-old merger between the two firms.

Foo handles  transport and other public infrastructure matters, residential and commercial real estate and property projects, industrial treatment plants, oil and gas and other energy-related issues. She advises international, regional and local clients on construction-related disputes relating to issues such as variations, claims for extensions of time, liquidated damages, termination, risk management and more recently, COVID-related issues.

Foo first joined Harry Elias Partnership in 2007 as an associate, and was with the firm for four years before moving to Big Four firm WongPartnership in 2011.

 

To contact the editorial team, please email ALBEditor@thomsonreuters.com.

Related Articles

Features

GC ROUNDTABLE: Rock-Solid Approach

by Sarah Wong |

In recent years, construction companies in Asia have been enjoying a boom in countries’ pivot to infrastructure reforms. The construction market in the Asia-Pacific region has grown by 3.9 per cent in 2023, according to GlobalData. But the sector was also confronted by rising material costs and financial constraints due to global economic conditions. GCs in three construction companies share how they are capitalising on new momentum and taking on challenges ahead.

Appointments

Long-time HFW partner joins Addleshaws as SG head

by Asian Legal Business《亚洲法律杂志》 |

UK law firm Addleshaw Goddard has hired energy specialist Chanaka Kumarasinghe as head of its Singapore office from HFW, where he had spent the entirety of his 22-year career.

Appointments

HSF names returnee as Tokyo construction disputes head

by Asian Legal Business《亚洲法律杂志》 |

Global law firm Herbert Smith Freehills has welcomed back Ben Jolley as its head of construction disputes in Tokyo from an in-house role at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI).