Kishan Pillay

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

Kishan Pillay

LL.B. (HONS) (NUS)
OF COUNSEL

NEXT PROFILE

While most people turn from their fears, Kishan aggressively defies his, most recently picking up mountain climbing despite his phobia of heights. This, naturally, also applies metaphorically to his rising career, which is focused on dispute resolution, with a particular emphasis on construction, engineering and property matters, both frontend and backend.

Kishan specialises in matters involving the Building and Construction Industry, and the Security of Payment Act is his forte, having acted in numerous adjudication and adjudication review applications, and related applications to the High Court. He counts among his clients property developers, local and foreign contractors, and professional consultants, acting for them in a wide range of contentious as well as non-contentious work.

And as if scaling mountains isn’t enough, Kishan spends the rest of his rare leisure time confronting his Acrophobia by leaping out of planes and off bridges. Next on the list? Conquering his (mild) Aquaphobia and (not so mild) Galeophobia by going cage diving to hang out with sharks. Perhaps the only thing Kishan is truly afraid of, is fear itself.

“Kishan Pillay, who has ‘experience in dealing with construction and engineering disputes’, is a name to watch.”

— Asialaw Profiles

Kishan Pillay

NOTABLE BRIEFS

Representing a specialist contractor in SIAC arbitration proceedings involving the construction of a major project in the UAE, with claims and counterclaims in excess of US$200 million.
Represented subsidiaries of a SGX-ST Mainboard-listed company in HKIAC arbitration proceedings involving the construction of a major project in Saudi Arabia.
Represented a nominated sub-contractor in a 31-day arbitration hearing involving a dispute with its specialist steel structure contractor for the construction of a theme park in Singapore. Both parties are subsidiaries of SGX-ST Mainboard-listed companies.
Representing the owner of a conservation shophouse in a long-running High Court suit involving the main contractor and consultants.

APPOINTMENTS

Vice-Chairman, Publications Committee, Law Society of Singapore
Member, Singapore Academy of Law
Member, Society of Construction Law (Singapore)
Facilitator, Part B of the Singapore Bar Examinations (Ethics & Professional Responsibility), SILE