MK EUSUFF ALI

Education
• Raffles Institution
• Raffles Junior College
• LLB (Hons), National University of Singapore

Languages
• English
• Tamil

Appointments and Memberships
• Chairman of the Civil Practice Committee of the Law Society from 2014 to 2016 .
• Member of the Civil Practice Committee since 2006.
• Member of the Ethics Advisory Committee of the Professional Conduct Council.
• Member of the Inquiry Panel which comprises of lawyers and lay persons appointed by the Chief Justice to carry out the inquiry function in disciplinary proceedings against lawyers.
He has been appointed as Chair for Review Committees/Inquiry Committees and has sat as a tribunal member in Disciplinary Tribunal Proceedings.
• District Councillor at North West Community Development Council.

Key Practice Areas
Commercial Litigation, Mediation and Arbitration

Eusuff Ali has been a litigator for more than 25 years and specialises in commercial and civil litigation. In 2024, he was recognised as a Litigation Star by Benchmark Litigation.

Eusuff is also an accredited mediator with the Singapore International Mediation Institute. 

He practises at all levels of the Singapore Courts, and has acted and advised in a wide range of matters including corporate governance and shareholders’ disputes, employment law, building and construction disputes, and professional negligence.

Eusuff is passionate about litigation practice and is an active volunteer in the Law Society of Singapore, having served in several of its committees and working groups.  He was the Chair of the Civil Practice Committee of the Law Society from 2014 to 2016 and continues to be an active member in the Committee.  He is also a member of the Organising Committee for the Litigation Conference, which is an annual marquee event of the Law Society covering key developments in the litigation landscape.  For the Conference’s 10th year Anniversary in 2024, Eusuff took on the role of Vice-Chair of the Organising Committee.

Highlights

• Successfully argued against a stay application in favour of arbitration at the High Court in Crystal-Moveon Technologies Pte Ltd v Moveon Technologies Pte Ltd [2024] SGHC 72.  The Court accepted that there was sufficient reason for it to exercise its discretion to refuse a stay in favour of arbitration.  This was a rare exercise of the Court’s exercise of its discretion under s 6(2)(a) of the Arbitration Act.

• Successfully struck out at first instance and at the High Court a suit commenced by the defendant to set aside a judgment on the alleged basis that the judgment was obtained by fraud. The defendant’s appeal to the Appellate Division was dismissed.

• Regularly acts for employees/employers in employment disputes. Eusuff represented the employer, Robinsons & Co (Singapore) Pte Ltd, at the High Court and in the Court of Appeal in a wrongful dismissal suit.  He successfully struck out the claim which was upheld by the Court of Appeal. Wee Kim San Lawrence Bernard v Robinson & Co (Singapore) Pte Ltd [2014] SGCA 43 

• Represented a main contractor in a claim against a sub-contractor both at the High Court and before the Court of Appeal. Succeeded at the High Court and the decision was upheld by the Court of Appeal. UTOC Engineering Pte Ltd v ASK Singapore Pte Ltd [2017] SGHC 259 

• Led a team from Tan Rajah & Cheah (TRC) with Mr CR Rajah SC as Senior Counsel representing the town councillors at the High Court and in the Court of Appeal in the highly publicised case of How Weng Fan and others v Sengkang Town Council and other appeals [2022] SCGA 72. The heart of the dispute was the waiver of the tender and award of Managing Agent and Essential Maintenance Service Unit contracts in respect of which the Court of Appeal found in favour of the town councillors.  This was a highly complex case that was heard by the full bench of the Court of Appeal which delivered a 280 page judgment.

• Led a team from TRC with Mr CR Rajah SC as Senior Counsel before the High Court and succeeded in obtaining an account of profits of more than $87 million for the client against its former director and his company.  In his written grounds of decision, the Judge described the case as “a complex and involved process which required the assistance of numerous experts”.  Nine experts testified in a case spanning several weeks of trial and involving substantial documentation and expert reports. Innovative Corporation Pte Ltd v Ow Chun Ming and another [2022] SGHC 233

• Acted for a foreign state/state agencies in complex litigation involving international law issues.
• Represented the Law Society at hearings before the Disciplinary Committee, High Court and Court of 3 Judges.

Email: eusuff@keystonelawcorp.com
DID: 6226 3597
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