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Wikborg Rein

6 RAFFLES QUAY, #10-05/06, SINGAPORE 048580, SINGAPORE

Tel:: Work +65 6438 4498
Fax:: Fax +65 6438 4496

Web:: www.wr.no
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Singapore, Shanghai, Oslo, London, Kobe, Bergen

What we say about the firm's legal practice in Singapore

Asset finance

Within Foreign firms, Wikborg Rein is a second tier firm,

Wikborg Rein represents Scandinavian shipowners in Asia and advises on the financing of offshore energy industry support vessels. Stephen Fordham and Chuen Yee Chee are leading names. June Ho specialises in corporate and asset financing for shipping and offshore companies.

Banking and finance

Within Foreign firms, tier 4

Stephen Fordham and his team at Wikborg Rein advise banks and financial institutions in the shipping and offshore sector. June Ho is recommended for corporate and asset financing work.

Corporate and M&A

Within Foreign firms, tier 5

Wikborg Rein’s corporate practice benefits from its alliance with Pan Asia Law Corporation. June Ho works closely with the firm’s Norwegian office providing corporate finance advice to shipping and offshore companies, notably advising STX OSV Holdings on its S$1.05bn IPO.

International arbitration

Within International arbitration, tier 5

Wikborg Rein’s Chris Grieveson, ClaraTan and lateral hire Russel Low from Ince & Co represented the Vietnamese government in arbitrations over a $100m shipbuildingproject. Grieveson successfully represented a European private equity fund in a $30m claim involving a long-term bareboat charterparty.

Projects and energy

Within Foreign firms, tier 4

Ince & Co’s ‘standout lawyer’ Denys Hickey leads an expanding energy and offshore practice that ‘meets deadlines, follows instruction well and adds business practicality’. Highlights included advising Golar LNG Energy on the provision of a Floating Storage and Regasification Unit and associated mooring to PT Nusantara Regas.

Shipping

Within Foreign firms, Wikborg Rein is a second tier firm,

Wikborg Rein’s 16-lawyer shipping practice, led by Chris Grieveson, who ‘is gathering a superb reputation in the marketplace’, handles shipping disputes and ship finance, casualty and insurance matters. Together with its Oslo office, it acted as sole counsel on the world’s largest ever wreck removal - the West Atlas - and advised on the Jupiter 1 rig wreck removal off Mexico. Stephen Fordham focuses on commercial matters. The team has doubled in numbers, with lateral hires including Russel Low from Ince & Co.

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China

Offices in Shanghai

Shipping : Foreign firms

Foreign Firms in London

European firms in London : Scandinavia

Japan

Offices in Kobe

Shipping : International firms and joint ventures

Norway

Offices in Oslo and Bergen

Singapore

Offices in Singapore

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Wikborg Rein

Competition Law Update 2011

Update 2011 - Competition law in Norway

- Wikborg Rein

Legal Developments in Singapore

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SINGAPORE COMPETITION LAW WATCH

On 23 November 2011, the Competition Commission of Singapore (“CCS”) released an infringement decision against 11 modelling agencies in Singapore for breaching Section 34 of the Competition Act (Cap. 50B) (“Act”). Section 34 of the Act prohibits, amongst other things, price fixing activities.

- Drew & Napier LLC
TRADE MARKS CAMPOMAR WINS THE RACE

The issue before the Court of Appeal was whether the registration of the trade mark NIKE should have been rejected on the ground that as of the registration date of the NIKE mark, there existed another identical earlier mark on the trade mark register. The appellant, Campomar SL ("Campomar"), was the proprietor of the earlier mark and had appealed against the decision of the High Court Judge, who had refused to overturn the decision of the Principal Assistant Registrar of Trade Marks ("PAR"), and allowed the trade mark NIKE to proceed to registration.

- Drew & Napier LLC
PATENTS PROSECUTION HIGHWAY

It is a common practice for companies to seek patent protection in various jurisdictions for the same invention. As each of these patent applications would need to undergo search and/or examination by the different patent offices, it is therefore not only a costly process for applicants but also one which requires significant time and effort from the patent offices to perform.

- Joyce A. Tan & Partners
ASSET-BASED LENDING IN SINGAPORE

To what extent are asset-based lending structures used (e.g., revolving and term loan facilities secured by present and future accounts and inventory, with the amount of loans available at any time based on the value of such assets)?

- Joyce A. Tan & Partners
NEW REGULATORY FRAMEWORK FOR CREDIT RATING AGENCIES

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (“MAS”) has issued a set of subsidiary legislation and regulations creating a new regulatory framework for credit rating agencies (“CRAs”).

- Drew & Napier LLC
PROPOSED CONSOLIDATION OF REGULATORY CONTROLS OF WESTERN MEDICINES UNDER THE HEALTH PRODUCTS ACT

The Health Sciences Authority (“HSA”) is holding a public consultation on its proposal to consolidate the legislative provisions regulating western medicine into a single statute. Currently, the regulatory controls are found in separate pieces of legislation, including the Medicines Act and the Poisons Act. It is proposed to transfer these provisions into the Health Products Act.

- Drew & Napier LLC
GUIDANCE PROVIDED ON MALAYSIAN COMPETITION LAWS

IMPLEMENTATION OF COMPETITION LAW IN MALAYSIA Competition law in Malaysia will become a reality next year, with the Malaysia Competition Act 2010 (“Act”) due to take effect from 1 January 2012.

- Drew & Napier LLC
Proposed consumer data protection regime for Singapore

On 13 September 2011, the Singapore Government released a public consultation paper on the proposed introduction of a consumer Data Protection (DP) regime in Singapore.

- ATMD Bird & Bird LLP
The restraint of trade doctrine does not apply to forfeiture-for-competition clauses

By Venisha Lakshmi Nair

- ATMD Bird & Bird LLP
New WIPO-IPOS mediation option for trade mark disputes

By Deryne Sim

- ATMD Bird & Bird LLP