Lawyers in Singapore

Jia Ying Lim

LIM Jia Ying is a Partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions Practice. Her main areas of practice include general corporate law, with a focus on business establishment and employment advisory work.

WongPartnership LLP

Jill Ann Koh

Jill Ann KOH is a Partner in the Commercial & Corporate Disputes and International Arbitration Practices. She has an active court and international arbitration practice in complex, high-value and multi-jurisdictional shareholder, contractual and fraud and asset recovery disputes, with a particular focus on the sectors of technology, internet businesses, e-commerce, energy, and international sales and investment.

WongPartnership LLP

Jimmy Yap

Partner

CNPLaw LLP

Jimmy Yim SC

Deputy Chairman, Drew & Napier LLC;

Drew & Napier LLC

Jin Sheng Tang

Director

WhiteFern LLC

Jin Wei Tan

Director, Corporate & Finance

Drew & Napier LLC

Joan Tan

Joan is a managing associate in the shipping and offshore finance team in Singapore. She has a key focus in PRC leasing and regularly assists on complex multi-jurisdictional loan and sale and leaseback transactions involving top-tier PRC lessors and major banks. In addition to vessel financing and leasing matters, she is also experienced in related matters involving vessel sale and purchase and vessel and mortgage registrations/deletions in various jurisdictions. Joan's principal area of practice includes other non-contentious shipping transactions and extends to general banking and finance matters. Joan also contributed to the fourth edition of the leading ship finance industry handbook, Shipping Finance: A Practical Handbook.

Stephenson Harwood

Joe Bauerschmidt

DLA Piper

Joel Chng

Joel CHNG is a Partner in the Restructuring & Insolvency and Special Situations Advisory Practices. He is also concurrently the Chief Representative of the firm’s Shanghai Representative Office. His main areas of practice are litigation and arbitration, involving banking and commercial transactions, corporate and shareholder disputes, restructuring and insolvency.

WongPartnership LLP

Joel Leow

Associate Director, Dispute Resolution

Drew & Napier LLC

Joel Quek

Joel QUEK is a Partner in the Commercial & Corporate Disputes, International Arbitration, Asset Recovery & International Enforcement and Vietnam Practices. Joel has an active practice in court litigation before the Singapore Courts and international arbitration, often in notable disputes which are high-value and legally significant.

WongPartnership LLP

Joel Shen

Partner and Head of Indonesia

Withers KhattarWong LLP

Joel Tan

Director, Corporate & Finance

Drew & Napier LLC

Joelle Fang

Associate Director, Corporate & Finance

Drew & Napier LLC

John Holton

John Holton represents asset managers on the launch and restructuring of private equity funds, venture capital funds, real estate funds, and hedge funds. He advises on Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) regulations and is an acknowledged expert on how these regulations apply to non-U.S. firms. Advising numerous funds targeting emerging markets including Asian, African, South American and Middle Eastern markets, John has particular experience with Indian private equity fund launches. To learn more about Mr. Holton, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/thomas-john-john-holton.html

Akin

John Lo

Joint Managing Director

RCLT Law Corporation

John Rogers

John is the Managing Partner of our Singapore office. He specialises in all aspects of finance matters including general banking, debt capital markets, structured finance, aircraft and shipping finance, acquisition finance, real estate finance, securitisation, private equity and general corporate transactions. His clients frequently comment on how much they appreciate his responsiveness and commercial approach. From 2003, John was based in our Hong Kong office and then relocated to Singapore in 2009 to open our office there. John also sits on the Walkers' Group Management Committee.

Walkers

John Tan

John has over a decade of experience advising on a wide range of real estate matters, including corporate real estate, real estate financing and private client real estate transactions. John advises on direct real estate acquisitions, disposals, sale and leaseback, commercial leasing and indirect real estate investment transactions across the commercial, industrial and residential property sectors in Singapore. He also has experience in niche property sub-sectors such as co-living, co-working, high-tech agricultural, hospitality, manufacturing, medical, aviation, and self-storage. John’s clients include multinationals, real estate investment funds, property developers and construction companies, collective sale committees, family offices and ultra-high net worth individuals. John also advises banks and financial institutions, corporates and high net-worth individuals, on both the lender and the borrower side, in secured real estate financing transactions including land and construction loans and other mortgage-backed facilities. John is frequently invited to contribute his views in the media and leading legal publications. He was also a real estate practice Course Facilitator for the Singapore Institute of Legal Education Part B of the Singapore Bar Examinations for around 8 years. John was recognised by the Singapore Business Review as one of the top 20 most influential lawyers under the age of 40 in 2018.

Shook Lin & Bok LLP

John Zadkovich

John advises on a range of energy, trade and finance matters, with particular expertise in international commercial arbitration, investigations and public international law. John has a strong legal and commercial understanding of the trade, energy (including oil and gas, mining/natural resources, hydrogen and renewables), infrastructure and finance sectors. John is experienced in working with most international arbitration rules and recognised institutions, including ICC, LCIA, SIAC, LMAA, HKIAC, CIETAC and UNCITRAL, and frequently appears as counsel before arbitral tribunals. He has also advised clients regarding regulatory and internal investigations and appeared as counsel before regulatory tribunals. John’s clients range from sovereign states, state owned entities, and multinational and domestic companies, to trading houses, private equity firms and family offices. He has more than 20 years of legal experience across Asia-Pacific, Europe and the Middle East, having previously worked at Australian, English and American law firms, including six years in Hong Kong.

Stephenson Harwood

Johnson Loo

Director, Dispute Resolution

Drew & Napier LLC

Jolie Giouw

Counsel

Bird & Bird ATMD LLP

Jon Nair

Director, Mergers & Acquisitions

Drew & Napier LLC

Jonathan Goacher

Jonathan is a US-qualified partner, known for his corporate and sanctions work in Asia. He has extensive experience of guiding clients through new market entries, complex M&A, joint ventures and corporate closures across eastern Asia. Clients appreciate his responsiveness and commercially-savvy, solutions-orientated advice, and his particular expertise in many highly-regulated business sectors.

Stephenson Harwood

Jonathan Guwe

Jonathan is a partner in Dentons Rodyk’s Finance practice group and Co-Head of the Energy practice and the Vietnam desk. He has handled various complex cross-border transactions in emerging markets, successfully seeing multiple projects from inception to commercial operation, and is well versed to manage the unique challenges in such markets. Projects undertaken include hydroelectric power, solar power, wind power, gas and coal fired power plants and other infrastructure projects in Asia such as Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, India and China. He has experience in advising on the development of Projects from inception and drafting the various related documents such as consortium agreements, sale and purchase agreements (SPAs), shareholders’ agreements (SHAs), engineering, procurement and construction contracts (EPCs), fuel supply, operations and maintenance contracts (O&M), power purchase agreements (PPAs), build, operate and transfer contracts (BOT) and their related financing documents. His experience in finance and commercial work encompasses a wide range of transactions including acquisition financing, project financing, bilateral and syndicated lending, asset-backed financing, ISDA transactions and trade financing, as well as pre-export financing and has handled numerous transactions involving mergers, takeovers and joint ventures, and has acted for vendors, purchasers and financiers.

Dentons Rodyk