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Han Kun hired Jerald Foo as partner in Singapore to strengthen its cross-border dispute resolution work in Southeast Asia

The SCCA co-hosted the Global Trade Congress in Singapore, stressing collaboration in global trade

Milbank hires Maurice Conway in Singapore to expand private equity in Southeast Asia

Rajah & Tann Singapore hires Michelle Zheng to boost banking and aviation practices

LSS CPC guidance (Aug 2025) addresses electronic execution of Singapore law-governed deeds and foreign company execution in banking transactions

Cooley hires David He in Singapore to expand its venture capital practice

Seladore Legal launches Singapore office to focus on international disputes before SIAC and SICC, led by partner Liang-ying Tan

HFW has hired Simon Bellas as a partner to strengthen its Singapore construction practice

Dentons Rodyk has hired Kai Yun Wong as a senior partner in its family and matrimonial practice

ICSID will open its first office outside Washington in Singapore

Kennedys hires Iain Anderson as partner to boost marine and insurance practice in Singapore

Bayfront Law appoints Joseph Tay as director to strengthen its commercial disputes team

Focus Law Asia appoints ex-GXS Bank and APEX GC Elizabeth Fong as head of corporate

Rajah & Tann Singapore strengthens its disputes team with the addition of Paras Lalwani and Reka Mohan as partners

Frameworks focused on restructuring companies in distress are becoming more transparent in Singapore and Taiwan

Bird & Bird launches Singapore restructuring group led by Ashok Kumar and Darius Tay to boost regional legal services

JTJB has launched a construction practice led by new senior partner Yeo Boon Tat

Freshfields boosts its Singapore team with Harry Evans, enhancing its focus on tech and life sciences for regional growth

Jones Day adds disputes partner Kay-Jannes Wegner to its Singapore office

Jeremiah Huang launches Everstead Law in Singapore on 1 July, focusing on corporate and transactional work

Trowers & Hamlins adds banking and finance partner Chuan How Tan in Singapore from DFDL          

GT Law hires Yuh Huey Khoo to lead its financial services and private client practices

Charles Russell Speechlys hires Gavin Margetson and Henry Winter in Singapore

Danielle Roman becomes Mourant’s Hong Kong managing partner, succeeding Paul Christopher in August

Withers KhatterWong hires Mohammed Reza as partner, head of international arbitration in Singapore

Tributes pour in for Ang, 61, vice chairman at Rajah & Tann Asia and former managing partner at Rajah & Tann Singapore

In-house counsel explored leadership, innovation and risk at the 2025 ACC Asia-Pacific Meeting in Singapore

TTT+Partners, WongPartnership & Linklaters advised ThaiBev on its USD2b multicurrency debt programme on SGX

Delta Law, founded by Joshua Tan, Cephas Yee, and Sean Lee, will provide tech-driven legal solutions

SCCA’s First Thursday event gathered in-house counsel in Singapore for networking and informal discussions over drinks

Ashurst appoints Clarence Ding to lead its Asia employment team from Singapore

GCAI and SIAC sign MoU to boost ties and support arbitration capacity-building for in-house legal professionals

Penningtons adds Zhi Chao Chor as partner in Singapore to boost its commodities and trade finance practice      

Reed Smith is expanding its financial services in Asia by hiring partners Tim Beech in Singapore and Regina Lui in Hong Kong

Addleshaw Goddard boosts Korea-focused arbitration capabilities with key partner hire in Singapore

Bird & Bird adds M&A partner Shahin Foroughian in Singapore as part of its continued international expansion drive

Sreenivasan Chambers adds Palaniappan Sundararaj as director, bringing its team to 10 lawyers, including 3 directors

Orrick adds partner Adam Moncrieff in Singapore, boosting its energy and infrastructure team in Asia

Sidley Austin names Alun Evans partner in Singapore, strengthening its energy and infrastructure practice in Asia-Pacific

Latham, WongP, A&G, and Rajah & Tann advised on Tokyo Century–OUE JV to build SG’s first zero-energy hotel at Changi

HFW hires arbitration expert Shaun Leong as Singapore partner, focusing on blockchain, crypto and energy

Herbert Smith Freehills has appointed Gitta Satryani as the new managing partner of its Singapore office effective from 1 May 2025

The Asia Pacific (APAC) Legal Congress 2025 welcomed more than 2,000 legal professionals from across the region on 3-4 April at One Farrer Hotel in Singapore

Hogan Lovells boosts Asia-Pacific capital markets team with Phill Hall joining as corporate and finance partner in Singapore

Cooley has hired Shashwat Tewary from Sidley Austin as a partner in Singapore, boosting their Indian and Southeast Asian capital markets expertise

Singapore’s Incisive Law has named Walter Alexander head of corporate to expand its international client base

Hui Zhong expands abroad with a February alliance with GH Legal in HK and a new branch opening in Singapore

Baker McKenzie hires capital markets expert Alexander Stathopoulos

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) is closing its Asia operations to focus on the US, UK, Europe & Middle East

Arbitration is favored for commercial disputes, but judicial review remains debated

Lee & Ko has hired Zachary Sharpe to co-head its arbitration team in Singapore

Indian-origin startups are increasingly executing “reverse flips,” relocating holdings from offshore to India

Hui Zhong Law Firm expands globally with a new Singapore office, strengthening its international dispute resolution network

Updated pro bono guide launched by SCCA, PBSG & DLA Piper to support Singapore’s needy

Singapore's 2024 bill requires CSPs to conduct due diligence to fight money laundering, with penalties for non-compliance

Marina Bay Sands secured a record SGD12 billion syndicated loan for its expansion

Kim Beng Ng named Rajah & Tann’s new managing partner, focusing on expansion and AI

Incisive Law appoints Davis Tan as director to boost Greater China business

ACC Singapore kicked off 2025 with a networking event at 1880

CMS Singapore's law alliance, CMS Holborn Asia, adds Ying Yi Liew as director to lead financial services regulatory practice

Covenant Chambers hires Ng Pei Tong as director to enhance its corporate finance and commercial transaction practice

Hogan Lovells strengthens Singapore presence with the appointment of Charmian Aw as data privacy and cybersecurity partner

KWM strengthens its presence in Australia and Singapore with three new partners

Providence Law Asia appoints disputes lawyer Colin Liew as director and head of international litigation in Singapore

Senior counsel Siraj Omar, with co-founder Allister Tan, has launched disputes-focused Siraj Omar LLC in Singapore

Suresh Divyanathan and five members from Oon & Bazul launch Dauntless Law Chambers, driven by a people-centric belief

Morrison Foerster boosts private equity & M&A in SE Asia, HK, Japan with Scott Jalowayski joining as partner in Singapore

Gibson Dunn has hired Hagen Rooke as a partner in Singapore

Charles Russell Speechlys has strengthened its corporate team in Singapore with the appointment of Tun Zaw Mra as a partner

Providence Law Asia appointed Daniel Tan as director, boosting its insolvency practice

Joyce A. Tan & Partners expands its IP and TMT practice with veteran Jim Lim

Bae, Kim & Lee strengthens its arbitration practice with Chris Mainwaring-Taylor

Sapna Jhangiani, Singapore's first female King’s counsel, joins Blackstone Chambers

Ashurst adds Kok Jin Ong as partner in Singapore to boost its energy practice

Hogan Lovells has hired Rob Palmer as a partner in Singapore to strengthen its international arbitration practice in Asia

K&L Gates expands its energy practice in Singapore with Brad Roach and Alexandra Jones

Tokyo International Law Office is expanding to Singapore, focusing on dispute resolution, corporate, and M&A work

Han Kun Law Offices has added partner Steve Lin to enhance its capital markets team

Wintell & Co is opening its first overseas branch in Singapore to expand its legal practices

Stephenson Harwood expanded its energy transition practice by adding partners Nick Dingemans and John Zadkovich, and associate Lena Ow

Arbitration remains a pro-business dispute resolution method, but understanding key locations is essential for success

Singapore’s courts uphold the validity of awards, rejecting unmeritorious resistance

RHTLaw Asia recruits Esther Wee as partner, expanding its IP and corporate practices

Singapore-based WongPartnership has become the first law firm in Southeast Asia to partner with global generative AI

Conyers has opened a litigation and restructuring practice in Singapore, led by Anna Lin

Jones Day has expanded its corporate practice in Singapore with the hire of M&A lawyer Parveet Singh Gandoak

EQT’s USD1.1B buyout of PropertyGuru will make it private, advised by Latham, Ropes & Freshfields

Singapore's PDLegal forms law alliance with UK's Hill Dickinson, effective August 1 as Hill Dickinson PDLegal Alliance

Herbert Smith Freehills has hired Ee Lynn Tan as an energy partner in its Singapore office, bolstering the firm's energy practice

Fangda Partners set up its first overseas branch in Singapore and hired former Watson Farley & Williams’ Ivy Liu as a partner

After a long lull in investment activity, m&a deals are picking up across asia

Han Kun Law Offices has recruited a four-member team, led by partner Leong Chuo Ming, to the firm’s Singapore office

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has expanded its energy capabilities in Singapore with the latest hire of new partner Michael Tardif from A&O Shearman

K&L Gates has expanded its Singapore office, K&L Gates Straits Law, with the addition of corporate partners David Kuo and Meraj Noor from DLA Piper

Dhananjay Kumar, partner and head of restructuring and insolvency at CAM, has joined South Square, a leading commercial law chambers in London.

RPC has welcomed Kiat Wee Lau as a partner in its corporate practice to enhance the firm’s capabilities in the Asia-Pacific region

Asia Business Law Journal reveals the leading talent in Singapore’s legal profession

Norton Rose Fulbright has appointed partner Beelee Seah to strengthen the global law firm’s banking and finance team in Singapore

Wotton + Kearney is the first major Australian insurance and risk firm to establish a significant office in Singapore, which will open in June

Watson Farley & Williams has strengthened its energy offering in Singapore with the addition of project development and finance veteran, Clarinda Tjia-Dharmadi, as a partner from McDermott Will & Emery

K&L Gates Straits Law, the Singapore outpost of the global firm K&L Gates, recruits Jason Nelms as a partner in the AMIF practice

The island nation is ringing in tax changes to keep it competitive, pay for an energy transition, and align with new international standards

Allen & Gledhill has officially launched a representative office in Shanghai, marking the Singapore firm’s first overseas presence outside Southeast Asia

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K&L Gates has expanded its finance practice with the addition of two partners, Samuel Kolehmainen and Duc Nguyen, in Singapore

Ashurst ADTLaw advises Sunray Group and The Lo & Behold Group on joint venture for Singapore lifestyle destination, opening Q2 2024

Shook Lin & Bok expands corporate real estate practice, appoints partners Kenneth Szeto and John Tan, along with their team of associates and paralegals

Reed Smith has appointed Han Ming Ho, a prominent figure in the Asia investment funds market, as a partner in its global corporate group and Singapore office

DLA Piper appoints Vincent Seah as co-country managing partner for its Singapore office, fortifying the island-state branch’s leadership structure

The harmonious blend of common law traditions and bustling commerce is transforming the Lion City into a beacon of legal excellence

Clifford Chance and Lee & Li advised Citibank on the sale of its consumer banking business in Taiwan to Singapore’s DBS Bank

Baker Botts represented LNG Japan Corporation’s wholly owned subsidiary LJ Scarborough to acquire a 10% stake in Woodside Energy’s Scarborough Joint Venture

Baker McKenzie Wong & Leow, a member firm of Baker McKenzie in Singapore, has hired Theodore Heng as the principal of its M&A group

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