I-Admin (Singapore) Pte Ltd v Hong Ying Ting [2020] SGCA 32 “Kikocci Project” and incorporated “Kikocci Corporation” in the British Virgin Islands. The second respondent also wrote some code for the Kikocci Project. 8 In March 2011, the fourth respondent agreed to invest in the first and second respondents’ efforts to develop a payroll software but was not keen on running the business under the umbrella of Kikocci Corporation. The first and second respondents duly dissolved Kikocci Corporation and on 18 March 2011, incorporated the third respondent with the fourth respondent as its sole director and shareholder. The pair also resigned from the appellant and I-Admin (Shanghai) to work for the third respondent. The third respondent purchased two storage spaces, a cloud storage space from Amazon Web Services (the “Amazon Server”) and a Buffalo Model HD-LBU3 external storage device (the “Buffalo Drive”). The Amazon Server fulfilled a number of purposes including the storage of client data. The Buffalo Drive was used to backup the third respondent’s live server code. The company also obtained a Dell Server Edge T110 II server (the “Dell Server”) for application development and programming. The payroll calculation engine they were developing was completed sometime in March 2012. On 19 September 2012, the first and second respondents were appointed as the third respondent’s directors and allotted shares. 9 In February 2013, the appellant came across the third respondent’s website, which was advertising payroll and HR systems in a number of countries that substantially overlapped with the geographical scope of the appellant’s services. A search at the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority revealed that the first and second respondents were directors of the third respondent. This prompted the appellant to instruct Nexia TS Technology Pte Ltd (“Nexia”) to conduct some forensic investigations into the activities of the respondents. 4