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Andrew Chan is a Partner in Litigation & Dispute Resolution and Deputy Head of the Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency Practice Group. His practice encompasses commercial work, and he is a specialist in dispute resolution (especially arbitration), trusts, and insolvency (corporate and personal), in particular schemes of arrangement and compromise (cross-border and domestic) where he has advised on and structured schemes involving major corporations. In arbitration, he has acted as counsel, been appointed arbitrator and appointed to give expert evidence on Singapore law. He has also given expert evidence for use in a foreign court.
Andrew has been noted as a leading insolvency and restructuring lawyer in The Asia Pacific Legal 500 since 2005.
In the 2005/2006 edition of the directory, he is noted to be a “star” in the Firm’s arbitration practice.
The 2007/2008 edition recommends him for international arbitration. Asialaw Profiles (2007) lists Andrew as a key practitioner under Dispute Resolution.
The PLC Cross-border Restructuring and Insolvency Handbook (2007/2008 and 2008/2009) lists Andrew as a leading lawyer in the area and describes him as a “highly regarded cross-border insolvency specialist”.
Chambers Asia 2008 describes Andrew in the area of restructuring and insolvency as “very smart” and “indispensable for difficult matters in court, where complex legal issues are involved”.
Andrew is noted in Who’s Who Legal Singapore 2008 to be “an ‘authority on schemes of arrangement, both cross-border and domestic’.”
The 2007 Guide to the World’s Leading Insolvency and Restructuring Lawyers lists Andrew as a leading practitioner.
He is also listed under Insolvency and Reorganisation in the recently published Best Lawyers International.
Andrew is a Fellow and Council member of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (as well as being on its panel of tutors). He is on the panels of arbitrators of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, the Law Society Arbitration Scheme and the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators. He is also Chairman of the Insolvency Committee of Law Society, Deputy Chairman, Director and Fellow of the Insolvency Practitioners Association of Singapore and Director of the newly incorporated American Arbitration Association Pte Ltd. In addition, he is a member of both the main and working committees looking into proposed changes to Singapore’s insolvency legislation through the creation of an omnibus Insolvency Act for Singapore.
Andrew has written over 60 articles covering many areas of the law and has contributed to various publications.
On insolvency, Andrew is the General Editor of the leading local practitioner’s book entitled Law & Practice of Corporate Insolvency.
Andrew has also co-authored two works on personal insolvency: Butterworths Annotations of The Singapore Bankruptcy Act and Law And Practice of Bankruptcy In Singapore and Malaysia.
On arbitration, he has co-authored the Singapore Chapter of the publication Arbitration in Asia.
Andrew’s writings have been cited in decisions of the Singapore Court of Appeal, High Court and District Court.
Andrew read law at the National University of Singapore. He is fluent in English and Bahasa Malaysia.
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