Alex Goh
Director, Dispute Resolution
- Singapore
- Drew & Napier LLC
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Qualifications
- L.L.B. (Hons), National University of Singapore (2013)
- Admitted to the Singapore Bar in August 2014
Alex has an active disputes and advisory practice with a focus on employment matters, private client matters, Greater China matters and other commercial matters.
Alex’s employment practice spans a vast breath of contentious and non-contentious matters. Clients, who include some of the world’s most admired and fastest growing companies as well as C-suite/senior management figures, regularly lean on Alex’s expertise which blends dispute resolution and structuring capabilities and a HR mindset. Alex routinely advises on structuring employment frameworks and navigating employee exits, employment disputes and investigations as well as whistleblowing and grievance-handling procedures. Alex’s employment practice also includes advising on work performance and PIP issues, remuneration issues, flexible work arrangements, work passes, employment offences, fair hiring obligations and post-employment covenants. Alex has been asked to moderate discussions involving Singapore employment regulators.
For private client matters, Alex has acted in a broad range of family and matrimonial matters involving contentious divorce, child custody, spousal/child maintenance issues and property division issues, with experience in navigating high net-worth divorces.
Alex is also sought after by clients from the Greater China region who value Alex’s effective bilingualism (in both written and spoken forms) and his ability to anticipate and meet the needs of this client segment.
Alex has been praised by clients for being “very smart in his moves”, “excellent”, “efficient” and the “dream team”.
A highly energetic, personable and dynamic lawyer, Alex gives back to society by volunteering with the Singapore Mentorship Committee. This involves mentoring university and college students, with the hope of fostering the leaders of tomorrow.
Alex graduated from the National University of Singapore in 2013 with 2nd Class (Upper) Honours in 2013 and was called to the Singapore Bar in 2014.
Some of the matters that Alex has handled include the following:
- Advised a global F&B behemoth on the conduct of workplace bullying and harassment investigations
- Acted for the CEO of a major commodity futures trading firm in a dispute with former employers and successfully resisting an application for a Springboard
- Advised the CEO of a Singapore-listed company on whistleblowing investigations and corruption allegations
- Acting for the director of a Singapore industrial group in divorce and child custody proceedings in a high net-worth divorce
- Acted in a high net-worth divorce involving an Asian tycoon family
- Member, Law Society of Singapore
- Member, Singapore Academy of Law