Mark Cheng

Introduction

Mark Cheng specialises in complex commercial disputes, with particular emphasis on shareholders’ and joint venture disputes, often with involving high stakes and cross-border elements. He also has a wealth experience in crisis management, working with and strategising for clients throughout the engagement.

Another of his areas of practice is in insolvency and restructuring, having advised debtors, creditors and insolvency practitioners. Additionally, he advises high net worth individuals and families to address their succession and estate structuring and planning needs.

Conversant in Mandarin, Cheng has a keen appreciation of Chinese business culture. He has substantial experience representing clients in Greater China in high-profile disputes.

He was called to the Singapore Bar in 2002, and was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 2009. He became a partner at Rajah & Tann in 2009.

Cheng has consistently been recognised by international legal directories. Recently, he was recognised in “The Visionaries” category of China Business Law Journal’s The A-List 2023 and Best Lawyers 2025, acknowledged for his defamation and insolvency, and reorganisation law expertise.

China Business Law Journal identified Cheng as one of the Top 100 Elite Lawyers (foreign lawyers) for the Chinese market in The A-List 2022. He is also acknowledged by IFLR1000 Asia Pacific 2023 as a highly regarded restructuring & insolvency lawyer, and cited by clients as “very knowledgeable, proactive and commercial”.

Benchmark Litigation 2019 recognised Cheng as a Future Star for Insolvency and International Arbitration.

He was also recognised by The Singapore Business Review 2015 as Singapore’s 20 most influential 40-and-under lawyers, as well as by the Global Restructuring Review as 40 of the world’s leading restructuring specialists aged 40 and under; Future Star ‒ Bankruptcy & Insolvency; International Arbitration by Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific 2018/2019; and Rising Star (Restructuring & Insolvency) by International Financial Law Review 1000 2018.