“No other local firm approaches the diversity, complexity and sheer number of deals handled by Allen & Gledhill...”
The Asia Pacific Legal 500 2005/2006

“The banking team is arguably without peer, and boasts an impressive list of clients...”
IFLR 1000: The Guide to the World’s Leading Financial Law Firms 2006

"‘ The clear leaders in terms of pure finance work,’ Allen & Gledhill outstrip the competition by some distance. The heritage of over a century in the market added to the clout of being the largest firm in Singapore proves an irresistible combination to both domestic concerns and the larger global institutions looking for a guarantee of quality. Clients talk of a unit that is ‘magnificently responsive and always willing to learn,’ and which is large enough to shoulder the mightiest deals.”
Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers 2004/2005

Our practice in financial services is one of the most prominent in Singapore and is at the forefront of development in this sector. We serve major domestic and international institutions related to banking, securities, derivatives and funds, as well as the treasury and financial departments of some of Singapore’s most well-known companies. Our well-established financial services capabilities have been independently recognised in Chambers Global, The Asia Pacific Legal 500 and IFLR 1000 by ranking Allen & Gledhill as the top-tier firm for finance-related work.

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Lucien Wong

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We regularly act on bank lending transactions, including secured and unsecured bilateral and syndicated loans, short, medium and long-term credit facilities, loan restructurings and refinancings, asset sales and debt trading, as well as general banking transactions and facilities. We also advise on and document private banking transactions.

We provide a full service in relation to financial law and regularly advise on the principal financing techniques used to fund single specific assets and on the acquisition and financing of asset portfolios. Where financing is concerned, we have particularly strong team of Ship Finance specialists. Where high value real estate is concerned, the expertise of our Property Financing specialists is tapped.

Our team has expertise on all aspects of project development and financing. We have experience in a variety of industry sectors, including harbours and ports, power plants, petrochemicals, telecommunications and manufacturing. Our clients look to us for advice at every stage in the project from the planning and negotiation phase to the documentation, management and operation of the project.

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Mark Hudspeth
Kok Chee Wai
Eugene Ooi

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Derivatives

Our derivatives team is well-known for its capability to advise on a wide range of innovative financial products and structures. These include options and futures, ISDA-based transactions, credit derivatives, equity and equity-linked derivatives, as well as repos. We advise on the relevant legal, regulatory and compliance issues which arise in relation to these products, and are actively involved in the structuring and documentation development of such products.

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Francis Mok

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The debt capital markets team has extensive experience of medium term note programmes, stand-alone bond issues, commercial paper programmes and depositary receipts. We act for some of the most well-known and most prolific issuers in Singapore, as well as regularly advising lead managers and arrangers.

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Margaret Chin
Jerry Koh

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Our specialist equity capital markets team regularly advises on initial public offerings and listings of companies on the Singapore Exchange as well as dual listings on the Singapore Exchange and Nasdaq. With our extensive experience in listings on the Singapore Exchange, we also assist our listed clients in other equity-related fund raising exercises such as rights issues, private placements and other share-related issues such as convertible and exchangeable bonds. We believe that our contribution to our listed clients does not end at listing. Post-listing, we also advise our listed clients on a regular basis in relation to their continuing listing requirements under the Listing Manual of the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading, including advice given on structuring of interested person transactions, employee share plans as well as privatisations of companies. Our equity capital markets team also advises unlisted companies on equity and equity-related fund raising exercises covering unregistered offerings of shares and options.

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Leonard Ching
Tan Tze Gay

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We have a specialist team for investment funds that handles a comprehensive range of fund-related legal advice. Our team has advised a large number of investment funds that are domiciled either in Singapore or offshore and offered to either retail or institutional investors. We advise on and document transactions connected with the establishment, registration and marketing of a wide range of investment funds, including guaranteed funds, structured products and money market funds.

Complementing our broader investment funds practice, we also advise on the structuring and establishment of private funds such as private equity funds and hedge funds and advise investors in relation to their investments into private funds.

We also regularly advise clients on the establishment and licensing of fund management companies, regulatory compliance issues relating to fund management and trustee businesses in Singapore, distribution of investment funds and generally on discretionary fund management matters.

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Long Jek Aun
Tan Tze Gay

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We have an active practice in take-overs, mergers and acquisitions and advise regularly on the obligations imposed by the Companies Act, the Listing Manual of the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading and the Singapore Code on Take-overs and Mergers. Apart from take-over laws and regulations, we also regularly advise public companies on schemes of arrangement and reconstruction. Our lawyers are familiar with the effectiveness of the various routes that can be taken to accomplish the commercial objectives of our clients. Our clients operate in a range of industries, including banking, property and trade. Where appropriate, our specialist Telecommunications, Energy and Infrastructure team is involved. We also have an insurance team which advises on the regulation and registration of new insurers, as well as on mergers and acquisitions and schemes of transfers involving insurance companies.

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Andrew M. Lim
Lim Mei

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We are at the forefront of the development of REIT structures in Singapore, having advised on the establishment and listing of five REITs listed in Singapore and their secondary offerings. They are CapitaMall Trust, Ascendas Real Estate Investment Trust (A-REIT), Fortune REIT, CapitaCommercial Trust and Suntec REIT. Our strength is illustrated in our ability to work across legal disciplines to deal with a myriad of wide-ranging and complex legal issues and deliver an integrated solution to our clients.

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Penny Goh
Ho Kin San
Jerry Koh
Jafe Ng
Margaret Soh
Lyn Wee

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Our regulatory practice advises financial institutions and corporations including banks, investment banks, securities dealers and futures brokers on the full spectrum of financial services laws and regulations. These include the licensing, regulatory capital and conduct of business requirements for banking, securities, futures, asset management, corporate finance and other capital markets businesses, as well as those relating to commodity trading. We also prepare or review the customer or transaction documentation for financial institutions, and provide advice including capacity opinions and netting opinions on derivatives and other financial transactions.

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Francis Mok
Karen Tiah

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We advise on a broad spectrum of securitisation and structured finance transactions, regularly advising financiers, originators, issuers, trustees and credit support providers. Our experience encompasses a diverse range of products including futures and ISDA documentation-based transactions, swaps and repos, credit derivatives, equity and equity-linked derivatives, repackagings, commercial mortgage-backed securities, collateralised debt obligations, collaterised loan obligations, warrants, conduit and securitisation programmes. As the team works on many securitisation deals that involve real property, the expertise of our Property Financing team is invaluable to this aspect of our practice.

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Margaret Chin
Jerry Koh

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“‘In terms of ship finance alone, there is no one to touch Allen & Gledhill.’ A small shipping team focuses on this discipline, taking advantage of the firm’s wider regional dominance to foster great links with the local banks. Thus fortified, it picks up the choicest finance work whilst supplementing its caseload with a healthy dose of litigation.” Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers 2004/2005

Our ship finance team is widely recognised as being one of the most established and well-regarded shipping practices in Singapore. Our ship finance lawyers are on the panel of the majority of banks and financial institutions active in ship finance.

We offer comprehensive and specialist advice on the sale and purchase of ships, ship and aircraft leasing and financing, ship registration, the relocation of operative headquarters to Singapore for shipowners and operators, drafting and negotiating shipping and shipping related contracts, including contracts for the sale and purchase of ships, contracts for the construction, conversion and repair of ships and contracts for the carriage of goods and/or passengers and in this regard, we act for shipowners and operators located both in Singapore and around the world.

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Gina Lee-Wan
Harold Or

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Our tax practice provides tax advice that is integrated with legal and regulatory issues that affect companies in their transactions, including mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, restructuring, capital markets activity, funds and securitisations. We provide advice on income tax, goods and services tax, estate duties, property tax, custom and excise tax and other taxes.

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Nand Singh Gandhi
Sunit Chhabra