The earn-out dispute begins at the drafting stage
Most earn-out arguments are not about performance. They are about who controls the business during the earn-out period, and what the accounts are permitted to say.
A Practice Focused on Commercial Disputes, Intellectual Property, and Corporate Counsel
Advisory, transactional, and contentious legal services across commercial disputes, intellectual property and patents, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate law.
Contact the FirmSix Practice AreasCommercial focus
Transactional & ContentiousBoth sides of the file
International PracticeCross-border coordination
Partner-LedSenior counsel throughout
The Practice
One firm across the whole commercial life of a matter.
JIP Law is a commercial legal practice. The firm advises on disputes and arbitration, intellectual property and patents, mergers and acquisitions, corporate and commercial arrangements, banking and restructuring, and employment and regulatory compliance.
Most commercial problems do not respect those categories. An acquisition turns on a patent that was never properly assigned; a shareholder dispute turns on a clause drafted years earlier; a restructuring turns on a security package nobody re-read. Running these areas as a single practice means the context does not have to be rebuilt each time a matter moves.
The practice is partner-led and deliberately selective. Matters are handled directly by senior counsel and, where a jurisdiction requires it, in coordination with appropriately licensed local lawyers and specialist counsel.
Practice Areas
Core Areas of Practice
Each area is run as part of a single practice rather than a referral chain, so the counsel who negotiates the agreement is the counsel who argues it.
Commercial Litigation & Dispute Resolution
Contractual and shareholder disputes, international arbitration, injunctive and interim relief, and the cross-border enforcement of judgments and awards.
Read moreIntellectual Property & Patents
Patent strategy and infringement proceedings, trade mark portfolios and oppositions, trade secrets, licensing, and portfolio audits for transactions.
Read moreMergers & Acquisitions
Share and asset deals, legal due diligence, warranties and indemnities, joint ventures, buy-outs, and post-completion earn-out disputes.
Read moreCorporate & Commercial
Governance and shareholder arrangements, supply, distribution and licensing agreements, commercial terms, and directors' duties.
Read moreBanking, Finance & Restructuring
Lending facilities and security packages, acquisition finance, debt restructuring, insolvency advisory and creditor representation.
Read moreEmployment & Regulatory
Senior employment agreements, restrictive covenants and team moves, employee inventions, investigations, and regulatory compliance programmes.
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Where the Firm Acts
Legal counsel is only as good as its grasp of the commercial setting it is given. These are the sectors the practice knows well enough to be useful quickly.
Technology & Software
Licensing and SaaS terms, IP ownership, open-source exposure, and transaction diligence.
Financial Services & Funds
Facilities and security packages, portfolio transactions, team moves, and regulatory compliance.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Designs and tooling ownership, supply and distribution agreements, and supply-chain disputes.
Life Sciences & Healthcare
Patent strategy, research collaborations, institutional licensing, and confidentiality regimes.
Consumer Brands & Retail
Trade mark portfolios, franchising and distribution, parallel imports, and enforcement.
Energy & Infrastructure
Joint ventures, long-form construction contracts, variation and delay claims, and arbitration.
A Standing Principle
“Advice that acknowledges uncertainty where it exists, and avoids overstatement of prospects or outcomes.”Measured counsel · JIP Law
Insights
Recent Notes from the Practice
Arbitration clauses that do not do what the client thinks
Seat, institution, language and scope get settled in a clause nobody negotiates. The consequences arrive years later, usually at the enforcement stage.
The patent problem found in week three of diligence
Ownership gaps and freedom-to-operate risk rarely stop a deal. They move the price, the warranty package and the indemnity cap — if they are quantified in time.
Offices
Singapore and Hong Kong
Two offices across the region. Visits are by appointment, and matters are run from whichever office sits closest to the client and the counterparty.
Singapore
15 Beach Road#04-4
Singapore 189677
15 Beach Road, #04-4, Singapore 189677
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Hong Kong
45/F, Lee Garden One33 Hysan Avenue
Causeway Bay
Hong Kong
45/F, Lee Garden One, 33 Hysan Avenue, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
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