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Sherman’s areas of focus include commercial litigation, banking and finance litigation, arbitration, insolvency and restructuring matters. His other areas of practice include employment related matters and criminal litigation.
Sherman acts for local and foreign banks, individuals, liquidators and judicial managers and has represented them at all levels of the Courts in Singapore as well as in arbitrations. His criminal practice includes representing accused persons and entities in the State Courts and the High Court who face charges under, amongst others, the Penal Code, the Misuse of Drugs Act, the Prevention of Corruption Act and the Protection from Harassment Act. Sherman also has an avid interest in crypto-related disputes.
Sherman is the Chairperson of the Law Society Social & Welfare committee, and he regularly volunteers with the Law Society’s Criminal Legal Aid Scheme.
- Acting for the commodities trading arm of an India-headquartered conglomerate in a multi-party dispute involving liability under letters of indemnity it used in favour of a group of companies which supplies commodities such as timber and coal (the Group) in respect of a cargo mis-delivery claim by a financing company (as the lawful holder of the original bills of lading);
- Successfully defending a local bank in a claim by its customer for alleged mis-selling of financial products;
- Acting for a major bank in a claim in excess of S$3 million for alleged mis-selling of financial products;
- Acting for the judicial managers and liquidators of a company in the oil and gas industry and advising them on, amongst other things, avoidance transactions made by the company as well as acting for the company in interpleader proceedings;
- Acting for a bank against a company in the business of trading in physical oil and gas for a sum in excess of USD19 million;
- Acting for the liquidators of a major local company providing offshore services;
- Acting for the liquidators of a large local construction company;
- Acting for the liquidators of a manufacturing company in claims against the company’s former directors for breach of director’s duties;
- Acting for an international commodities company in an arbitration against a company in respect of the non-payment of goods delivered;
- Acting for local insurance companies against their former agents;
- Acting for a payment platform against its users for the recovery of sums;
- Successfully acting for an individual against a crypto platform for the recovery of crypto assets;
- Successfully defended an individual from the District Courts to the Court of Appeal in a claim for avoidance transactions and Section 73B of the Conveyancing and Law of Property Act;
- Acted for an individual in a claim for unpaid sales commission against a major multinational information technology company;
- Successfully defended a group of individuals in respect of claims of alleged breaches of restrictive covenants;
- Acting and advising individuals who are being investigated for criminal offences;
- Acted for and successfully defended an individual who was charged with corruption and was acquitted;
- Acting for an individual who faced extradition proceedings;
- Acted for and successfully argued for a probation order to be imposed on an individual who was charged under the Computer Misuse Act. The individual has allowed bank accounts to be opened in his name for the transfer of scam monies; and
- Acted for and successfully argued for a probation order to be imposed on an individual who was charged under the Misuse of Drugs Act. The individual could have been imprisoned for up to 10 years or fined up to S$20,000.00 or both.