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Law Watch: September 2026

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In Brief

DEALS

WongPartnership LLP Acted For …

Promera in its acquisition of Data Clean Asia

DIGESTS

Judgments | Gambling Debts 3

Enforcement of Foreign Gambling Debt

Judgments: Public Policy Bar to Registration in

Singapore

Building and Construction

The 30-Day Deadline for SO Decisions:

Implications for Performance Bond Calls 3

Patents

Forbidden Fruit: Confidentiality Club Order

Granted in Patent Infringement Case 4

OTHER RECENT UPDATES

RECENT AUTHORSHIPS

We are under no duty to update this publication to reflect any such changes in the law. You should consult a qualified legal professional before taking any action or omitting to take action in relation to matters discussed herein.

WongPartnership LLP (UEN: T08LL0003B) is a limited liability law partnership registered in Singapore under the Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2005.

DEALS

WONGPARTNERSHIP LLP ACTED FOR …

Promera in its acquisition of Data Clean Asia

WongPartnership acted for Promera in its acquisition of Data Clean Asia (DCA), a leading technical data centre services provider in Singapore. This transaction marks Promera’s entry into the Asia-Pacific region and establishes the company’s first operations outside North America, supporting its broader global expansion strategy focused on scaling services for global data centre operators.

Based in Los Angeles, Promera is a portfolio company of Angeles Equity Partners, LLC, a private investment firm focused on manufacturing, industrial services, and specialty distribution businesses. The deal underscores Promera’s strategy to build a global data centre services platform by adding DCA’s capabilities in containment design, manufacturing, and installation to complement its existing contamination control and critical environment services. DCA serves a blue-chip customer base that includes hyperscale operators, colocation providers and enterprise data centre clients across Southeast Asia.

Our Partners in our Mergers & Acquisitions practice, Ng Wai King, Kyle Lee, Rachel Tan and Chiang Yuan Bo, led the Firm’s team in this transaction, together with Partners from our Corporate Real Estate practice, Jerry

Tan, and our Intellectual Property, Technology & Data practice, Kylie Peh.

NG Wai King

Chairman and Senior Partner

Kyle LEE

Co-Head – WPGrow: Start-Up/Venture Capital

Partner – Mergers & Acquisitions

Rachel TAN

Partner – Mergers & Acquisitions

CHIANG Yuan Bo

Partner – Mergers & Acquisitions

Jerry TAN

Partner – Corporate Real Estate

Kylie PEH

Partner – Intellectual Property,

Technology & Data

DISCLAIMER: This update is intended for your general information only. It is not intended to be, nor should it be, regarded as or relied upon as legal advice. Court decisions referred to herein may be subject to further appeal at the time of publication, and subsequent developments in the law, including new legislation, amendments, court decisions or practice directions, may affect the accuracy or relevance of the matters discussed. We are under no duty to update this publication to reflect any such changes in the law. You should consult a qualified legal professional before taking any action or omitting to take action in relation to matters discussed herein.

WongPartnership LLP (UEN: T08LL0003B) is a limited liability law partnership registered in Singapore under the Limited Liability

Partnerships Act 2005.

Other recent matters that WongPartnership was involved in:

DESCRIPTION

PRACTICE AREAS

Acting in the sale by DBS Bank Ltd. of its subsidiary, Crest10 Pte.

Ltd., a property holding company, for S$21 million (subject to customary post-completion adjustments).

Mergers & Acquisitions

Advised on equity and debt financing involving Silicon Box Pte. Ltd., a Singapore-headquartered advanced semiconductor packaging company specialising in cutting-edge integration technology and manufacturing processes.

These transactions included the US$100 million Series B funding round in 2024, US$150 million Series B2 extension funding round and S$100 million private credit financing from leading institutional investors.

WPGrow: Start-Up / Venture

Capital

Banking & Finance

Corporate Real Estate

Acted in the divestment of i12 Katong, a suburban retail mall in

Singapore, by Keppel Ltd to Altallo Holdings Pte. Ltd. The deal was structured as a sale of shares in the asset holding company, PRE 1

Investments Pte. Ltd., which holds the property indirectly through

Katong Retail Trust. The cash consideration paid by the purchaser is approximately S$372.03 million over three tranches, comprising approximately S$0.03 million as consideration for the sale shares, and S$372 million for repayment of a loan extended to Katong

Retail Trust by another Keppel subsidiary.

Corporate Real Estate

Mergers & Acquisitions

Acted in relation to a Memorandum of Understanding between two charities, MILK (Mainly I Love Kids) Fund and Epworth Community

Services, for a collaboration supporting children aged 5 to 12 from middle-to lower-income families with emerging or mild-to-moderate special educational needs who attend mainstream schools.

Professional & Enterprise

Disputes

Acted in the issuance of S$120,000,000 Fixed Rate Subordinated

Perpetual Securities under Lendlease Global Commercial REIT

(LREIT)’s S$1,000,000,000 Multicurrency Debt Issuance

Programme, with Lendlease Global Commercial Trust Management

Pte Ltd in its capacity as manager of LREIT and DBS Trustee

Limited in its capacity as trustee of LREIT.

Debt Capital Markets

WongPartnership LLP (UEN: T08LL0003B) is a limited liability law partnership registered in Singapore under the Limited Liability

Partnerships Act 2005.

DIGESTS

JUDGMENTS | GAMBLING DEBTS

Enforcement of Foreign Gambling Debt Judgments: Public Policy Bar to Registration in

Singapore

In Venetian Macau Ltd v Hu Yangning [2026] SGHC 180, the General Division of the High Court of

Singapore (High Court) held that a foreign judgment founded on a gambling debt cannot be registered and enforced in Singapore under the Reciprocal Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act 1959 (REFJA).

To allow enforcement would be contrary to Singapore’s public policy against enforcing gambling debts in courts, as embodied in section 5(2) of the Civil Law Act 1909.

The High Court also held that section 5(1)(a)(iii) of the REFJA requires that actual notice of the foreign proceedings be received by the judgment debtor in sufficient time to enable the judgment debtor to defend the foreign proceedings, notwithstanding that process may have been duly served in accordance with the law of the country of the original court. If actual notice was not received in sufficient time, and the defendant did not appear, the registration of the foreign judgment would be set aside.

To view our update on the decision, please click here.

If you would like information and/or assistance on the above or any other area of law, you may wish to contact the Partner at WongPartnership whom you normally work with or the following Partner:

Daryl WONG

Partner – Banking & Financial Disputes

BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION

The 30-Day Deadline for SO Decisions: Implications for Performance Bond Calls

In SH Design & Build Pte Ltd v Jurong Port Pte Ltd and another [2026] SGHC 159, the General

Division of the Singapore High Court ruled on when a decision of a Superintending Officer (SO)

made under Clause 35.1(2) of the Public Sector Standard Conditions of Contract for Construction

Works (Seventh Edition 2014) (PSSCOC) is final and binding. In this case, the SO issued a decision within the mandatory 30-day time limit, but that decision did not answer the question referred to him. His later clarification did answer the question, but was invalid because it was given

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outside the 30-day deadline. As neither constituted a final and binding decision under Clause 35.1(2) of the PSSCOC, the employer’s subsequent demand on the performance bond, which relied on both the initial decision and the clarification, was held to be invalid.

To view our update on the decision, please click here.

If you would like information and/or assistance on the above or any other area of law, you may wish to contact the Partner at WongPartnership whom you normally work with or the following Partner:

SIM Qian Yi

Partner – Infrastructure, Construction & Engineering

PATENTS

Forbidden Fruit: Confidentiality Club Order Granted in Patent Infringement Case

The General Division of the Singapore High Court (High Court), in Salutica Allied Solutions Sdn Bhd v

Apple South Asia Pte. Ltd. [2026] SGHCR 22, granted an application to form a confidentiality club to protect the confidentiality of documents disclosed in discovery under a two-tier confidentiality regime.

However, the High Court rejected the proposed prosecution bar.

To view our update on the decision, please click here.

If you would like information and/or assistance on the above or any other area of law, you may wish to contact the Partner at WongPartnership whom you normally work with or any of the following Partners:

LAM Chung Nian

Head – Intellectual Property,

Technology & Data

Kylie PEH

Partner – Intellectual Property,

Technology & Data

WongPartnership LLP (UEN: T08LL0003B) is a limited liability law partnership registered in Singapore under the Limited Liability Partnerships

Act 2005.

OTHER RECENT UPDATES

DATE

TITLE

24 September 2026

Must an Employer Give Notice of Termination When a Probationer Is Not Confirmed?

24 September 2026

Withholding of Salary: ECT Decision on Salary Deductions and Set-Off 23 September 2026

Silence Is Not a Grant of Power: Emergency Arbitrators in China-Seated Arbitrations 23 September 2026

Enforcing Chinese Judgments in Singapore: Rendering Court’s Certificate Settles Finality 22 September 2026

Singapore and Lao PDR Sign Implementation Agreement on Carbon Credits

Collaboration 18 September 2026

Proposed Bill on Protection of Genetic Information 15 September 2026

Digital Infrastructure Bill Introduced for First Reading in Parliament 15 September 2026

Scams (Countermeasures) and Other Matters Bill Passed 14 September 2026

MAS Responds to Feedback on Proposed Amendments to Related Party Transaction

Requirements for Banks 9 September 2026

MAS Responds to Feedback on Changes to the Group Capital Framework for Designated

Financial Holding Companies (Licensed Insurer)

8 September 2026

Mandatory Cooling-off Period for Loans from Licensed Moneylenders 8 September 2026

MAS Consults on Legislative Amendments to Implement the Stablecoin Regulatory

Framework 7 September 2026

BCA Launches Green Mark Version 7 3 September 2026

ACRA and SID Partner to Strengthen Director Capability and Governance Standards in

Singapore

WongPartnership LLP (UEN: T08LL0003B) is a limited liability law partnership registered in Singapore under the Limited Liability Partnerships

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RECENT AUTHORSHIPS

DATE

AUTHORSHIPS

CONTRIBUTORS / PARTNERS

3 September 2026

Legal Era: From Perception Gap to Hub

Status: Singapore’s Decade of Insolvency

Reform

Smitha Menon | Kajal Bhatia 31 August 2026

Bar and Bench: When debtors hold on to the wheel: A comparative perspective on India’s

CIIRP and Singapore’s Scheme of

Arrangement

Smitha Menon | Kajal Bhatia 28 August 2026

Chambers Global Practice Guide -

Enforcement of Judgments 2026 (Trends &

Developments)

Koh Swee Yen, Senior Counsel |

Joel Quek | Daniel Gaw | Lin Chunlong 20 August 2026

Chambers Global Practice Guide -

International Arbitration 2026 (Law & Practice)

Chou Sean Yu | Wendy Lin |

Monica Chong Wan Yee |

Frank Oh Sheng Loong

Chambers Global Practice Guide -

International Arbitration 2026 (Trends &

Developments)

Koh Swee Yen, Senior Counsel |

Joel Quek | Alessa Pang | Andre Soh 11 August 2026

Chambers Global Practice Guides - Private

Wealth 2026 (Law and Practice)

Sim Bock Eng | Aw Wen Ni |

Poon Chun Wai 3 August 2026

Global Investigations Review: The Asia Pacific

Investigations Review 2027 - Singapore

Chapter

Joy Tan | Jenny Tsin | Ong Pei Chin 29 July 2026

Mondaq – ESG Comparative Guide 2025

Tiong Teck Wee | Quak Fi Ling |

Felix Lee 28 July 2026

Thomson Reuters Practical Law: Insurance and Reinsurance in Singapore: Overview

Hui Choon Yuen | Tan Shao Tong |

Alvin Chua | Wesley Aw 15 July 2026

Marsden Law Book: An Arbitration Companion:

Liber Amicorum for Michael Lee

Koh Swee Yen, Senior Counsel |

Tiong Teck Wee | Thea Elyssa Vega

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