Lawyers in Singapore

Dayne Ho

Dayne Ho practises in the areas of corporate and corporate finance, with a focus in mergers and acquisitions, equity capital markets, private equity and regulatory advisory work. He has extensive experience in advising international and local companies (both listed and unlisted) on a wide range of cross-border corporate transactions in Asia. Originally a corporate restructuring lawyer, Dayne broadened his practice with varied professional experience from his previous stints in-house with a multinational company and in private practice with an international law firm and a local law firm where he co-headed its corporate finance practice. His strengths lie in his commercial acumen and strong connectivity with clients. He has advised on a number of mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, joint ventures, disposals, initial public offerings, debt financing and listing compliance and governance matters.

Shook Lin & Bok LLP

Dean Collins

Partner

Dechert

Debby Lim

Debby Lim is a senior partner in Dentons Rodyk’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution Group and co-heads the Firm’s Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy practice. With a robust cross-border commercial litigation portfolio, Debby brings over 17 years of specialised experience in insolvency, banking and finance disputes, complex asset recovery, and fraud investigations. She is recognised for leading precedent-setting, high-stakes restructuring and insolvency mandates across the Asia-Pacific, including landmark matters involving judicial management, schemes of arrangement, and the enforcement of creditor rights in complex corporate collapses. Debby routinely advises and represents debtors, creditors, and insolvency officeholders in contested schemes, priority disputes, enforcement proceedings, and antecedent transaction challenges. Debby has been involved in many market-leading deals which are the first of their kind and has a “practice of firsts” which includes the first pre-packaged scheme of arrangement and first judicial management involving a foreign incorporated entity. More recently, she advised the debtor group in Re Picotin Pte Ltd. [2024] SGHC 156, which is the first reported decision involving the successful grant of related company moratoria. She has earned a stellar reputation for her work on high-profile, complex cross-border insolvency matters and her outstanding appellate advocacy, being the youngest lead counsel to successfully argue two complex appeals before an expanded five-judge Singapore Court of Appeal coram. Internationally recognised for her expertise, Debby is one of the first three Singapore-qualified lawyers to be bestowed the prestigious fellowship by INSOL International. She contributes actively to thought leadership through scholarly writing, including for LexisNexis Annotated Laws of Singapore, and recently participated in UNCITRAL Working Group V deliberations on cross-border insolvency frameworks. In 2025, Debby was awarded the Woman of the Year in Restructuring (Asia) by the International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC), in recognition of her leadership, mentorship, and contributions to the profession. She is also the first ever recipient of the Christopher Bathurst Prize and subsequently did a placement with Fountain Court Chambers in London, where she worked with leading English barristers and Queen’s Counsel. Debby also holds key leadership positions within the legal profession. She is the Co-Chair of the Law Society of Singapore’s Publications Committee and Vice-Chair of its Insolvency Practice Committee. Committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, Debby currently serves as the Asia Regional Vice Director of Membership of the International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC), where she also mentors the Indonesian Network, and was formerly Co-Chair of the IWIRC Singapore Network. She is a founding member of the Law Society’s Women in Practice Task Force and sits on Dentons Rodyk’s Women’s Committee. Beyond her professional commitments, Debby is deeply involved in pro bono advocacy. She is an empanelled state-assigned counsel with the Legal Assistance Scheme for Capital Offences (LASCO), representing individuals facing the death penalty, regardless of nationality. Most recently, she argued Azuin bin Mohd Tap v Public Prosecutor [2025] SGCA 8, further solidifying her standing as a skilled litigator beyond commercial law.

Dentons Rodyk

Deborah Barker SC

Partner, Litigation and Arbitration

Withers KhattarWong LLP

Deborah Wong

Deborah Wong is a partner in the banking and finance practice. She acts for and advises financial institutions and borrowers on a range of domestic and cross-border transactions, including relating to real estate financing, acquisition financing and project financing.

Shook Lin & Bok LLP

Denise Teo

Director, Dispute Resolution Practice Group

Yuen Law LLC

Dennis Barsky

Jones Day

Derek Kwan

Principal

Baker McKenzie Wong & Leow

Derek Loh

Partner, Co-head of Construction & Engineering

TSMP Law Corporation

Desmond Chng

Director, Dispute Resolution

Drew & Napier LLC

Desmond Wee

Head, Corporate Commercial Head, Employment

Rajah & Tann Asia

Devathas Satianathan

Partner, International Arbitration, Construction & Projects

Rajah & Tann Asia

Dexter Tan

Norton Rose Fulbright

Deya Dubey

Deya is a Partner in the Energy, Projects & Construction Practice. His practice involves the resolution of disputes through negotiations, mediation, litigation and arbitration, with a focus on infrastructure, construction, energy, oil & gas, marine, shipping, and criminal law.

WongPartnership LLP

Diane Cecilia Yu

Senior Associate

Charles Russell Speechlys LLP

Diona Park

Diona Park is a counsel in the Seoul office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the Corporate Department. Ms. Park advises clients on derivatives and structured products, equity-linked products, and other capital markets transactions and related regulatory matters. Her clients range from financial institutions and corporations to private equity funds, fintech companies, and hedge funds on transactions including: Equity hedging and monetization transactions, including over-the-counter transactions such as forwards and collars and structured transactions Share forward sales and related equity offerings, including at-the-market offerings Convertible bond offerings and related bond hedge transactions and derivatives entered into by issuers on their own stock, including repurchase and financing derivatives Margin loans secured by shares of publicly-traded issuers, diversified portfolios of securities, and/or debt securities Loan-linked and deal-contingent rate, currency and commodity hedging transactions, and related regulatory advice Prime brokerage and total return swap agreements and related netting, margin, and other regulatory issues Structuring and advising on regulatory treatment of cryptocurrency derivative transactions Prior to joining Latham, Ms. Park worked in New York at leading international law firms and as an in-house legal counsel at JPMorgan’s investment banking group.

Latham & Watkins LLP

Divyesh Menon

Counsel

Rajah & Tann Asia

Dominik Sklenar

Dominik Sklenar advises on capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings and public and private offerings of equity and debt securities, covering issuers from all across Asia. Mr. Skelnar draws on his sophisticated knowledge of US securities laws and extensive on-the-ground transactional experience in Asia to represent issuers, investment banks, and private equity investors on: US IPOs, follow-ons, and registered or unregistered convertible bonds 144A/Reg S debt issuances Registered debt offerings Hong Kong public offerings India and Indonesia capital markets transactions Leveraging the strength of Latham’s global platform, he works closely with the National Office on the complex SEC issues that arise in the context of Asia capital markets. Mr. Sklenar is a member of the firm’s Ethics Committee and serves as Deputy Money Laundering Reporting Officer for the Hong Kong office.

Latham & Watkins LLP

Don Stokes

Don Stokes advises on complex energy and infrastructure project development, investment, and finance transactions across Asia. Don draws on more than a decade of on-the-ground experience advising on renewable and conventional power, digital infrastructure and telecoms, and gas development and transportation projects throughout the Asia-Pacific region. He has particular experience in the Vietnam energy sector, where he has worked on groundbreaking deals involving LNG-to-power and renewable energy investments. He has advised financial sponsors investing in renewable energy and digital infrastructure portfolios across the region. Qualified to practice English and New York law, Don has practiced in Singapore, Ho Chi Minh City, Tokyo, London, and New York over the past two decades. He has been based in Asia since 2010. Leading industry publications rank Don among the leading project development and finance lawyers in Asia.

Latham & Watkins LLP

Donal Keaney

Partner

Hill Dickinson LLP

Doos Choi

Partner

Mayer Brown

Doreen Chia

Partner

Rajah & Tann Asia

Doreen Sim

Doreen Sim is a senior partner and Head of Dentons Rodyk’s Finance practice group. She is also Head of the Banking and Finance practice. She specialises in general banking, finance and security transactions. She has extensive experience in a wide range of loan and other debt related transactions (both domestic and cross border) including bilateral, club and syndicated loans, property financing and acquisition and asset financing. Her clients include local and foreign banks, large corporates, real estate investment trusts and funds. Doreen has led in major project finance, onshore and offshore financing, profit participation security transactions and securitisations. Doreen has also advised on banking, insolvency and other financial laws and regulations and has been involved in debt restructurings. Doreen graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Law) degree from Girton College, Cambridge in 1988 and has been practising banking law since her call to the Singapore Bar in 1990. She has been named as a Leading Lawyer in Chambers Asia Pacific since 2009 and in Chambers Global since 2009. She has been a Recommended Lawyer for Banking and Finance in Legal 500 Asia Pacific since 2007. Doreen has been cited in Chambers Asia as "a highly respected name in this sphere, with particularly noteworthy experience in property financing" and who is regarded as "commercially aware, sensible and reasonable" by market sources. She has been highlighted in Chambers Global as a "true-blue banking lawyer with an active general banking practice who is adept at handling a wide range of banking and finance matters, including bilateral and syndicated loans and asset financing. She is particularly well known for property financing.” Doreen has been mentioned in Asialaw Profiles as being respected for her “commercial approach” and commended by clients for her exceptional drafting and negotiation skills.

Dentons Rodyk

Dorothy Marie Ng

Dorothy Marie NG is a Partner in the Corporate Real Estate Practice Her practice spans nearly four decades of the full spectrum of property and property-related matters and transactions. Her experience encompasses a variety of acquisitions, dispositions, leasing and development of land (including residential, commercial and industrial properties), sorting out complicated title, sales by mortgagees and management corporations and secured financing in respect thereof, and working together with other practices

WongPartnership LLP