Harry Elias Partnership
01 October 2007
Harry Elias Partnership was founded in 1988 and has grown into one of the leading firms in Singapore. The firm has high levels of proficiency across a range of practice areas, and five partners gained inclusion in three chapters of this book.
Harry Elias Partnership in Who's Who Legal: Singapore
Harry Elias Partnership is the leading firm in Singapore for business crime defence work, and is the only one to gain multiple partners in that chapter. Founding partner Harry Elias SC has been lead counsel in a number of high-profile criminal cases and is regarded as a “consummate professional” by his peers. His colleague Philip Fong is a former assistant director (investigations) in the Singapore commercial affairs department and is known both for criminal defence work and as a prosecuting counsel. Shashi Nathan is the head of the criminal practice group and a founding member of the association of criminal lawyers in Singapore.
Jonathan Kok is rated as “great” for franchise work and gives the firm a presence in that chapter as one of seven featured individuals. In addition, Latiff Ibrahim is head of the firm’s construction, infrastructure and engineering projects practice group and one of the leading construction experts in Singapore. Said to be “very well known for his impeccable drafting skills”, he is also well regarded for his dispute resolution credentials in this field and is recognised both in Singapore and across the region for his work on behalf of developers, contractors and statutory boards.
To see more profiled firms from Singapore, vist the Firm Profiles page in the Singapore Special Report