Principal: Ava Rachel Low Wah Chin (Sole Proprietor & Principal Legal Practitioner)

• Full management and principal advocacy in sole proprietorship establishment providing hands-on client representation.
• Attending trials, interlocutory hearings, drafting cause papers, structuring corporate and joint venture transactions, and managing complex estate, family, and conveyancing portfolios.

Supervised by: Burton Tan

• Drafted pleadings and cause papers including Writs of Summons & Statements of Claim on land trespass and corporate professional legal fee recovery.
• Prepared Agreed Facts to be Tried, Issues to be Tried, Summaries of Facts, and compiled Bundles of Documents for trial.
• Handled conveyancing files for property sale, purchase, and title transfers.
• Drafted investment agreements, attended will and estate distribution meetings, rendered public calling advice, and led client consultations.

Principal: Ava Rachel Low Wah Chin

• Established initial sole proprietorship practice delivering hands-on legal counsel directly to private and corporate clients.
• Attended civil litigation hearings and urgent criminal bail hearings in the Magistrates’ and Sessions Courts.
• Conducted conveyancing files for property transactions and title transfers.
• Drafted corporate agreements including Shareholders’ Agreements and Share Purchase Agreements.

Supervised by: Serena Paul Naveen

• Managed the firm’s general litigation department and supervised junior legal staff.
• Drafted cause papers, handled case managements, and conducted court trials and hearings.

Supervised by: Flavio Porro (Head of Legal & Risk Management) & Dalton Wen (Legal Manager)

• In-house legal advisory, risk mitigation, and corporate regulatory governance across international engineering and construction projects (~9-month tenure).
• Monitored company litigation, liaised with external solicitors, attended court hearings, and prepared executive staff and trial documentation.
• Assisted HR Manager with employment law matters and industrial employment hearings.
• Drafted cross-border Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) and Confidentiality Agreements for multi-million international tender projects.
• Procured and reviewed Insurance Policy Schedules for cross-border engineering projects.
• Drafted and commented on General and Special Terms & Conditions for Purchase Orders and corporate services.
• Prepared Supplemental Loan Agreements for structured corporate financing.
• Drafted Heads of Agreement (HOA) and Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for cross-border ventures.
• Advised on Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) Contracts and prepared comprehensive term comparison tables.
• Drafted demand letters, board minutes, cause papers, liaised with external auditors, and conducted statutory research.

Supervised by: Amuda Jayaratnam and Sreether Sundaram

• Conducted own trial matters and assisted Partners with general civil, insurance defense, and medical negligence litigation.
• Assisted two Senior Counsels concurrently in defending medical practitioners against alleged medical negligence in diagnosis and surgical treatments.
• Assisted Senior Counsel with general insurance claims: recovered theft vehicle, displaced retaining wall during bungalow construction, and Bus accident claims.
• Assisted Senior Counsel in High Court matrimonial divorce and child custody hearings.
• Conducted full trial involving contractor negligence over a dislodged sprinkler pipe causing water damage to gaming machines.
• Conducted Sessions Court summary judgment hearing for payment on demand under contractor performance bond.
• Conducted Federal Court hearing against insured’s motion for leave to appeal pursuant to Section 96 Courts of Judicature Act 1964 regarding medical insurance policy terms (motion dismissed with costs).
• Independently settled food poisoning claims, fire insurance claims, and bodily injury claims.
• Drafted legal opinions on Professional Indemnity Insurance for lawyers, Medical Negligence, and General Insurance.

Supervised by: Wong Hok Mun

• Assisted Wong Hok Mun on Professional Indemnity Insurance for lawyers, general commercial disputes, and banking litigation.
• Assisted in developer-lawyer conspiracy fraud lawsuit defrauding property purchasers (Sessions Court).
• Assisted in 3-day High Court trial involving professional negligence suit against solicitor for loss of chance litigation damages.
• Assisted in striking-out and appeal hearings for retailer against oil & gas corporation and Federal Land Commissioner over MRT line compulsory acquisition compensation (High Court).
• Successfully argued before High Court Judge to oppose bank’s application for discovery against law firm over conveyancing documents in alleged dishonest assistance (application dismissed with costs).
• Conducted Court of Appeal and Federal Court hearings with co-counsels in estate dispute alleging fraud in obtaining Grant of Probate.
• Conducted High Court interlocutory hearings for security for costs and discovery applications.

• Assisted with general civil litigation matters in Sessions Court and High Court.

• Assisted with conveyancing project work, Perfection of Transfer (Form 14A), Perfection of Charge (Form 16A), property title transfers, and Land Office auction matters.

Supervised by: Porres P Royan, Sudharsanan Thillainathan, Lau Kee Sern

• Assisted in 10-day High Court trial involving fraud, conspiracy, breach of fiduciary duties, and breach of confidentiality.
• Assisted in 2-day High Court trial involving breach of Deed of Settlement and Guarantee & Indemnity for RM19 Million debt.
• Assisted in arbitration matter regarding Services Agreement Incentive Sum computation.
• Assisted in defamation action involving Writ Out of Jurisdiction and renewal of expired writ in High Court.
• Rendered advice on Insurance Coverage, Brokering, Breach of Contract, and Insurance Placement Negligence.
• Advised on Construction of Wills and Testaments.