Lawyers in Singapore

Richard Sharpe

Partner

King & Spalding LLP

Richard Siddle

Richard Siddle is a partner in the Finance Group in Walkers' Singapore office. Richard advises in relation to Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands and Bermuda law and has extensive experience of cross-border debt finance transactions, including acquisition and leveraged finance, real estate finance, structured finance, debt restructurings and general corporate lending. Richard has a particular focus on fund finance and regularly represents both lenders and sponsors with respect to capital call financings, NAV and hybrid facilities and GP/Management facilities.

Walkers

Richard Watkins

Richard Watkins advises private equity and corporate clients on M&A, joint venture, and other strategic transactions with an Asia-Pacific nexus. Richard combines extensive experience across a broad range of deal types with a depth of understanding of local markets to guide clients on: Cross-border mergers and acquisitions, ranging from buyouts to minority investments, both public and private Investing and raising growth capital Consortia and joint ventures Structured and downside-protected quasi-equity investments He works closely with Latham colleagues worldwide to structure innovative solutions that utilize the latest legal technology and integrate market-leading advice from across the global platform. Richard’s experience spans both buy side and sell side in a variety of industries, particularly real estate, asset management, tech and digital infrastructure, healthcare and life sciences, and consumer goods. Drawing on his prior experience in London and Moscow, Richard provides pragmatic, commercial advice that reflects his experience guiding clients through evolving geopolitical and economic conditions. Richard serves on the firm’s Global Mentoring Committee.

Latham & Watkins LLP

Richard Williams

Richard is a partner specialising in Asset & Structured finance, with a particular focus on the Aviation industry. Richard has a broad range of asset finance experience, with a strategic focus on the aviation finance and leasing sector, where he advises banks, investors, leasing companies and airlines on the full range of asset finance products. His breadth of knowledge and skills are recognised by leading legal directories and industry journals, highlighting him as a leading lawyer in the aviation sector.

Watson Farley & Williams LLP

Rizuan Pathie

Rizuan is a Partner in Dentons Rodyk’s Corporate practice group and Co-Head of the Competition & Antitrust practice and the Brunei desk. Rizuan first graduated from the National University of Singapore in 2007 with a Bachelor of Social Sciences (Honours) and again in 2010 with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours). He was admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor in Singapore in 2011. Rizuan is also a Chartered Islamic Finance Professional accredited by the International Centre of Islamic Finance (INCEIF), Malaysia. Rizuan’s main areas of practice encompass corporate commercial law as well as competition law, anti-trust law and White Collar and Government Investigations. As a Chartered Islamic Finance Professional (CIFP), Rizuan also advises on Islamic finance transactions. Rizuan deals in a wide scope of corporate commercial transactions including advising on mergers and acquisitions, employment issues and general corporate advisory work. Rizuan also advises on competition law/anti-trust matters including advising on cartel investigations, leniency applications as well as on obtaining clearance for mergers.

Dentons Rodyk

Rob Palmer

Partner

Hogan Lovells Lee & Lee

Robert Child

Partner

Ashurst ADTLaw

Robert Driver

Norton Rose Fulbright

Robert Griffin

Mr. Griffin advises investment fund managers in the United States and internationally on structuring investment fund complexes, conducting private placements and complying with various regulatory regimes. His clients can be found in private equity and other global funds, and he also advises sovereign wealth and other government-backed investors on their global investments. With a deep understanding of the international funds business and regulatory landscape, Mr. Griffin helps clients develop practical solutions to complex challenges. He has assisted with regulatory and legal compliance issues raised in multiple jurisdictions—including Brazil, the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union and Abu Dhabi—and in harmonizing compliance policies with respect to each jurisdiction. In his decade-long tenure of service in the U.S. Air Force, Mr. Griffin honed leadership and project management skills that prove valuable in managing large, complex international transactions. To learn more about Mr. Griffin, please visit his full profile here: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/robert-m-griffin.html

Akin

Robert Joiner

Robert is an English qualified solicitor. He deals with dry shipping disputes, mainly concerning charterparties, COA's, bills of lading, project cargo/heavy lifts, MOA's, and commission agreements. He also advises on shipbuilding and rig contracts/guarantees, salvage, wreck removal, unsafe berths, groundings, fires, collisions, and offshore supply disputes. Robert has worked on a range of insurance matters, including marine and cargo where he advises on coverage and recovery. Additionally, he has expertise in commodities, including minerals, frozen produce, LPG and veg oils. He also has extensive experience in arbitration and litigation, and has run a large number of international arbitrations in London, Singapore and Hong Kong while based in Singapore. These range from small claims procedures to multi-million dollar disputes. Robert also has experience with drafting contracts, guarantees and insurance policies, as well as with insurance regulation, compliance and start-up issues for company, mutual and captive insurers, including marine, P&I, and property catastrophe. He is recommended by Chambers & Partners for his "considered and comprehensive" style of practice, and Legal 500 for his "prompt, detailed advice".

Wikborg Rein

Rodney Keong

Rodney Keong is a senior partner in Dentons Rodyk's Litigation and Dispute Resolution and Arbitration practice groups. He is also Co-Head of the International Trade practice and the Singapore-Korea relationship partner. Rodney's area of practice is in commercial litigation, arbitration and mediation. He is experienced in a wide range of commercial cases, from construction and engineering, corporate, shareholders’ and investment disputes, to banking, insolvency and restructuring cases. He is also experienced in employment, negligence, public liability insurance, trust and electronic fraud cases. He also advises and acts for clients in major and complex fintech / cryptocurrency disputes and claims. In construction and engineering disputes, he has represented insurers, developers, main and specialist contractors, and subcontractors, as well as building owners and management corporations. He also has particular experience in advising and acting for clients involved in major / catastrophic engineering incidents. Rodney has acted for and advised leading international trading houses in relation to international sale of goods transactions involving various types of international sale contracts. He has conducted seminars and talks for MNCs, banks and financial institutions, Singapore Business Federation, Real Estate Developers' Association of Singapore, Singapore Corporate Counsel Association, amongst others, on arbitration, litigation, contract, construction and banking and property law topics.

Dentons Rodyk

Ron Cheng

Head, Investment Funds; Director, Corporate & Finance

Drew & Napier LLC

Ron Oong

Ron Oong is a Partner in the Dentons Rodyk Banking and Finance group and Projects department. He is also the Co-Head of the Project Finance and Infrastructure practice groups. He is experienced in the areas of banking and finance, energy, mining, infrastructure, project finance, restructuring, M&A and direct investment transactions. He handles a wide range of finance and commercial work, particularly in the areas of project finance, banking, infrastructure and energy. He has handled numerous transactions involving sale and purchase of energy (including natural gas) and construction and operation of infrastructures, such as the development of both traditional and renewable energy (including hydroelectric, solar, wind and waste-to-energy) power plants. He has experience representing clients in various sectors, including in the infrastructure and energy sectors, and has acted for clients in complex cross-border transactions involving Singapore, China, Indonesia, Vietnam and Bangladesh.

Dentons Rodyk

Rosabel Ng

Rosabel Ng is the Head of the Derivatives & Structured Products Practice and a Partner in the Financial Services Regulatory, FinTech, and Sustainability & Responsible Business Practices. Rosabel's main areas of practice are financial markets and services regulatory and advisory (with specific focus on the regulation of derivatives and structured products, as well as regulatory compliance and advisory matters relating to primary financial market infrastructure providers), derivatives transactions, structured finance and other treasury-related work.

WongPartnership LLP

Roshan Singh Chopra

Director

Duane Morris & Selvam LLP

Ross Howard

Ross Howard is a Partner in Clifford Chance's Global Financial Markets Team and a member of the firm's Worldwide Projects Group and our Energy and Natural Resources, Transportation and Infrastructure Sector Groups. Ross specialises in advising sponsors and lenders in connection with the development and financing of complex and large-scale projects in the renewable energy, power, oil and gas, natural resources and infrastructure sectors. He has extensive experience advising on the structuring, negotiation and financing of large-scale international projects across Asia Pacific, Africa and Europe.

Clifford Chance

Rozalynne Asmali

Director, Intellectual Property & Dispute Resolution

Drew & Napier LLC

Ruby Tham

Director, Intellectual Property

Drew & Napier LLC

Rui Wen Tan

Rui Wen is an Of Counsel in our banking and finance practice in Singapore. He regularly advises commercial banks, fund managers, alternative financing providers, commodity traders and corporate borrowers on a variety of financing structures and products. His strength lies in complex cross-border transactions and he has acted on transactions involving entities across Asia-Pacific (APAC) and EMEA, including Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Korea, India, Japan China, UK, EU, the Middle East, BVI, the Cayman Islands and Mauritius. US financing vehicles also regularly feature on his transactions. Rui Wen has significant experience advising on a wide range of financing structures and products, including syndicated and bilateral (both secured and unsecured) facilities, interbank lending, commodity & trade finance (including inventory and warehouse financing, commodity repos, true sale structures and advanced payment facilities), borrowing base facilities, international real estate financing, project financing, asset financing, acquisition financing, funded and unfunded risk participations and funds financing (including subscription line and GP facilities). In addition, he is highly skilled at working with and navigating business, operations, credit, compliance and legal teams within commercial banks, having completed two secondments at HSBC and OCBC (where he was their trusted advisor on their IBOR remediation project) and also having advised on the structuring and offer of trade finance products by a large commercial bank. Prior to joining Simmons & Simmons, Rui Wen worked at a Big Four Singapore law firm, where he was part of their Band 1-ranked Debt Capital Markets team.

Simmons & Simmons

Ruizi Lin

Ruizi’s practice encompasses a diverse range of litigation, arbitration and disputes advisory work – including cryptocurrency / Web3 related disputes, investment and shareholder disputes and restructuring and insolvency. He has extensive experience and commercial familiarity with the abovementioned areas. He also has substantive experience in international trade disputes and REIT-related disputes. Ruizi has advised and acted for multinational corporations, insolvency professionals, institutional and corporate creditors, investors and founders, company directors and shareholders, and high net-worth individuals (in particular several clients from the PRC). He has appeared in several high-profile matters at all levels of the Supreme Court of Singapore and various international commercial arbitrations.

Shook Lin & Bok LLP

Ryutaro Kawamura

Partner

Mori Hamada Singapore LLP

S Sivanesan

S Sivanesan is a senior partner and head of Dentons Rodyk's Corporate practice group. He is also Co-Head of the Environment, Natural Resources & Sustainability practice, Venture Tech & Emerging Growth Companies practice and the Singapore-India relationship partner. Sivanesan's primary areas of practice include mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganisations and restructurings, venture capital, venture technology, investment funds and general corporate commercial matters. He has advised several fund managers, venture capital funds, founders, start-ups and companies on investment deals. Sivanesan's international work includes cross-border and regional transactions, mergers and acquisitions, VC/PE investment deals in South East Asia, India, China, Japan, Europe, Australia and USA. He has worked with local and foreign clients in establishing businesses in Singapore and the region, transactional matters, foreign direct investment, liaising with regional counsel and establishing effective corporate structures for global operations. He is widely regarded as an authority on corporate governance and venture capital. Sivanesan is a past chairman of the Pacific Rim Advisory Council, which is an association of 28 top tier independent law firms with more than 12,000 lawyers in more than 50 key business centres around the world. Sivanesan has addressed regional and international business leaders at conferences and seminars, on topics relating to venture technology, international mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, venture capital and cross border investments. He is a past Chairman of the Corporate Governance Committee of the Singapore Investors Association of Singapore (SIAS). He is currently the independent Chairman of Liberty Insurance Pte Ltd and Liberty Specialty Markets Singapore Pte Limited, members of the Liberty Mutual Group.

Dentons Rodyk

Sally Lee

Sally practises in the areas of corporate and corporate finance, specialising in mergers and acquisitions. She regularly advises on buy-side and sell-side mandates across jurisdictions in Asia and has significant experience in healthcare, technology and consumer-related businesses. Her practice spans private equity and venture capital investments and exits, strategic transactions, joint ventures, early-stage financing, public takeovers and delistings. Sally is part of the working group that contributes to Singapore’s Venture Capital Investment Model Agreements (VIMA) initiative.

Shook Lin & Bok LLP

Sammy Fang

DLA Piper