Christopher Yong

Managing Director

D: +65 6859 1106

M: +65 9683 1011

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yongchristopher/

Christopher is one of the founders and the joint Managing Director of Terra Law LLC. He advises clients on a wide spectrum of legal issues on both contentious and non-contentious matters. The range of matters includes commercial litigation, company law, landlord and tenant, property-related claims, contentious probate matters, arbitration and mediation, corporate advisory, transactions and compliance, and employment and immigration matters.

He co-heads the firm’s real estate practice, which has particular strengths in corporate real estate and collective sale projects, acting for both vendors as well as developers. The team has advised on over 50 collective sales and has been recognised by both Legal500 and Chambers as one of Singapore’s leading real estate practices.

Christopher has almost 3 decades of top level legal practice experience and speaks regularly at industry seminars. He is a Fellow of both the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators and Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is also an accredited associate mediator with the Singapore Mediation Centre and Singapore Law Society Mediation Scheme.

Christopher chairs the Advisory Committee of a Government Secondary School and his key responsibilities include advising the school management and looking after the welfare and financial needs of students from low-income families.

WORK HIGHLIGHTS, representing:

HPL Subsidiary Luxury Peak Pte Ltd in acquiring Concorde Hotel & Shopping Mall, with the sale price of S$821 million making it the largest collective sale of 2024.
Owners of successful collective sales including Shenton House (SGD 538 million), Tanglin Shopping Centre (approx. SGD 868 million), Maxwell House (SGD 276.8 million), and Gloria House (approx. SGD 70.3 million).
Both majority owners and dissenting minority owners in several real estate collective sale applications before the Strata Titles Board, and on appeal to the High Court and Court of Appeal.
The estate in a Will Trust against a beneficiary on whether the gift (a property valued at S$7 million) was a valid charitable gift.
A co-owner of a property in a suit before the High Court against claims that the joint-owners hold 69.25% of the property on trust for the Plaintiff; alternatively that the Plaintiff be declared an equitable tenant-in-common of the property.
The vendor of a property against claims by the purchaser of alleged unauthorised structures and alterations to the subject property.
Owners for the privatisation of Braddell View, one of the oldest and largest HUDC development in Singapore, comprised of 920 units.
The owner of a property in a suit before the State Courts of Singapore against claims by his neighbour for direct and consequential damages due to water seepages.

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS:

Graduate Certificate in International Arbitration | National University of Singapore (NUS) | 2012
Bachelor of Laws | University of Hull | 1993
Associate Mediator, Singapore Mediation Centre
Associate Mediator, Law Society Mediation Scheme

ADMISSIONS:

Advocate & Solicitor, Singapore | 1995
Barrister-at-Law of the Middle Temple, England & Wales | 1994 (non-practising)

MEMBERSHIPS

Fellow, Singapore Institute of Arbitrators
Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Law Society of Singapore
Singapore Academy of Law
International Bar Association
Inter-Pacific Bar Association