Latiff is the Managing Partner of Harry Elias Partnership and heads the Firm’s Construction, Engineering and Infrastructure Projects Practice Group. His main areas of practice are in both the front-end and dispute resolution aspects of construction and engineering projects, and commercial arbitrations. He has extensive experience in advising, drafting and negotiating various building, engineering and EPC contracts, concession agreements, off-take and other long-term supply agreements, fuel supply agreements, project management agreements, consultants’ agreements, bonds, warranties and other related documents.

On the front-end work, he has advised on various infrastructure projects in Singapore and the region such as commercial and residential developments, various chemical, cement and process plants, sea ports, hospitals, roads and integrated resort. In Singapore, these projects include highly prominent projects such as the Marina Bay Sands Integrated Resort, Singapore Flyer, Singapore Health Pte Ltd’s Hospital/Medical/Hotel Project, Singapore Management University Campus, Singapore Business and Financial Centre, One Raffles Quay, Singapore New National Library, Tuas Incineration and Power Plant and a number of petrochemical plants on Jurong Island. In the region, he has advised on various projects including cement plant and toll road projects in Malaysia, sea port, process plant and commercial building projects in Vietnam, power plant projects in Philippines and India and a mixed development project in Dubai.

On the dispute resolution side, he has acted as counsel in a variety of construction and engineering disputes including the Nicoll Highway Collapse, the 3 Church Street building dispute and various disputes between major developers/owners and contractors and management corporations in Singapore and the region.

Latiff is an arbitrator with the Singapore International Arbitration Centre and an Accredited Adjudicator with the Singapore Mediation Centre under Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act. He was also a committee member of the Society of Construction Law, Singapore and is a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators.

Latiff was also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Singapore Management University from 2000 to 2004 and is currently an Advisory Board member of Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University. He was also a member of the Institute of Policy Studies Forum of Economic Restructuring (IFER – 2002). He is also a Director of Warees Investments Pte Ltd, a company owned by the Singapore Muslim Religious Council and also serves as Chairman of the Appeal Board constituted under the Administration of Muslim Law Act. Since 2006, he has been a member of the Board of the Singapore Land Authority. In 2006, he was conferred the Public Service Medal by the Singapore Government for his contributions to the community.

An often sought after speaker, Latiff has presented numerous papers on construction law and related issues at various seminars and forums. He has also been consistently cited for his expertise in Construction Law by the Asia-Pacific Legal 500 and Who's Who Legal.