Suriakala Valli Param

Suriakala Valli Param also known as Mrs Param specialises in conveyancing and real estate legal work, advising clients on property related contracts, mortgage and real estate financing, development work for developers, leasing of residential, commercial and industrial real estate including Jurong Town Corporation (JTC) and Housing and Development Board (HDB) commercial properties and stamp duties. She also advises banks and the Central Provident Fund Board on real estate related matters.  Her other areas of practice include advising clients on trusts and trustees’ duties and responsibilities, wills, power of attorney and lasting power of attorney, statutory declarations and tenancy related matters.

Mrs Param commenced practice as an Advocate and Solicitor in 1986 and she has been in practice for 39 years. She was formerly the head of the Real Property Practice at and the Senior and founding partner of KSCGP Juris LLP and she is currently a consultant at the Real Estate Department of the Firm.  Her transaction experience includes providing legal advice to clients on all matters of real estate law, advising and acting for individuals, corporations, developers, banks and financial institutions in property sale and purchase, mortgage and refinancing transactions. She has represented local banks and foreign banks and financial institutions in Singapore in various corporate and retail financing transactions. In the course of her practice Mrs Param deals with licensed and unlicensed developers, the sale and purchase of condominiums, cluster housing, landed properties, office units, commercial and industrial properties including JTC land. She has vast experience in dealing with the various regulatory authorities like the Land Dealings (Approval) Unit, the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore Stamp Duty and Property Tax Divisions, the Controller of Housing, Urban Redevelopment Authority and Building Control Authority. She has also acted for Vendors in an enbloc sale of their properties in Beach Road.

She is often invited to give talks to real estate agents on various real estate matters and she has also given talks to the public on real estate matters at property seminars organised by Singapore Press Holdings under their ST 701 platform. Mrs Param is also a speaker for the Legal Secretarial Course organised by the Law Society of Singapore and she was a real estate practice session facilitator with the Singapore Institute of Legal Education.

In 2014 Mrs Param was invited to volunteer at UN Women in New York where she spent two weeks assisting delegates there and this experience has given her more exposure internationally.