What we say about the firm's legal practice in Singapore
Banking and finance
Within Foreign firms, Linklaters LLP is a first tier firm,
Linklaters Allen & Gledhill’s lawyers are commended for their ‘ability to relate to commercial and business matters’. Practice head Philip Badge advised a consortium of banks on a $6bn financing to the Vedanta group to acquire a controlling stake in Cairn Energy. Richard Ginks assisted Fortis Global Healthcare Holdings with a $135m facility and a HK$273m facility provided by DBS to fund the acquisition of the Hong Kong and Macau-based healthcare business of Quality HealthCare Asia.
Within Local firms Leading individuals
Capital markets
Within Foreign firms, Linklaters LLP is a first tier firm,
Clients consider Linklaters Allen & Gledhill ‘the go-to firm for big, complex transactions’, and appreciate its ‘great product expertise, market knowledge and fast response times’. Dean Lockhart assisted Cebu Air with its $617m IPO. Indian capital markets specialist Arun Balasubramaniam and his team acted on Standard Chartered’s Listing of Indian Depositary Receipts on the Indian stock exchanges - the first-ever listing by a non-Indian company. Practice head Kevin Wong advised on Khazanah’s S$1.5bn sukuk.
Within Local firms Leading individuals
Corporate and M&A
Within Foreign firms, Linklaters LLP is a first tier firm,
Linklaters Allen & Gledhill’s Stuart Bedford and his team advised Mitsui on the MYR3.3bn acquisition of a 30% stake in Integrated Healthcare Holdings, and represented JPMorgan in Vallar’s $3bn acquisition of shares in Bumi Resources and Berau Coal Energy.
Legal market overview
Within Legal market overview,
Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, Herbert Smith LLP, Latham & Watkins LLP, Norton Rose (Asia) LLP and White & Case LLP hold Qualified Foreign Law Practice (QFLP) licences, allowing them to practise domestic law employing Singapore-qualified lawyers. Other firms achieve this through joint law ventures, notably Allens Arthur Robinson TSMP, Baker & McKenzie.Wong & Leow, Linklaters Allen & Gledhill, Hogan Lovells Lee & Lee and Pinsent Masons MPillay LLP. In 2011, market liberalisation produced new alliances and local subsidiaries of international firms, notably Duane Morris & Selvam LLP, a joint law venture between Duane Morris LLP and Selvam LLC, and Ince & Co’s establishment of Incisive Law LLC.
Projects and energy
Within Foreign firms, Linklaters LLP is a first tier firm,
Linklaters Allen & Gledhill’s team, led by Richard Ginks and Nathan Dodds, is recommended for ‘good technical knowledge and ability to relate to commercial and business matters’, advising the international lenders on the $1.3bn financing of CLP’s 1,320MW Jhajjar IPP in India, and advising the Singapore Treasury on the S$1.8bn Sports Hub PPP.
Within Local firms Leading individuals
Restructuring and insolvency
Within Foreign firms, Linklaters LLP is a first tier firm,
Linklaters Allen & Gledhill’s Philip Badge and Kevin Wong advised Suzlon Energy on its restructuring. Richard Ginks advised HSBC Bank on the Jaya Holdings restructuring.
What we say worldwide
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United Arab Emirates
Offices in Dubai and Abu Dhabi
- Banking and finance : Banking and finance
- Corporate and M&A : Corporate and M&A
- Projects and energy : Projects and energy
Belgium
Offices in Brussels and Antwerp
- Banking, finance and capital markets : Banking, finance and capital markets
- Competition : Competition
- Corporate and M&A : Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution : Dispute resolution
- Environment : Environment
- Fraud and white-collar crime : Fraud and white-collar crime
- Information technology : Information technology
- Intellectual property : Intellectual property
- Labour and employment : Labour and employment
- Real estate : Real estate
- Tax : Tax
China
Offices in Shanghai and Beijing
- Legal market overview : Legal market overview
- Banking and finance : Foreign firms
- Corporate & M&A : Foreign firms
- Dispute resolution : Foreign firms
- Employment : Foreign firms
- Private equity/venture capital : Foreign firms
- Projects and energy : Foreign firms
Germany
Offices in Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich, and Dusseldorf
- Antitrust : Antitrust
- Banking and finance: Bank lending : Banking and finance: Bank lending
- Banking and finance: Project finance : Banking and finance: Project finance
- Capital markets : Capital markets
- Corporate and M&A: Large deals : Corporate and M&A: Large deals
- Dispute resolution : Dispute resolution
- Employment : Employment
- Insolvency and restructuring: Restructuring : Insolvency and restructuring: Restructuring
- Investment funds : Investment funds
- Private equity : Private equity
- Public sector : Public sector
- Real estate and construction: Real estate : Real estate and construction: Real estate
- Structured finance and securitisation : Structured finance and securitisation
- Tax : Tax
Algeria
Spain
Offices in Madrid
- Legal market overview : Legal market overview
- Banking and finance : Banking and finance
- Capital markets : Capital markets
- Capital markets (US law) : Capital markets (US law)
- Corporate and M&A : Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution : Dispute resolution
- EU and competition : EU and competition
- Projects and energy : Projects and energy
- Real estate : Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency : Restructuring and insolvency
- TMT : TMT
- Tax : Tax
France
Offices in Paris
- Administrative and public law : Administrative and public law
- Banking and finance : Banking and finance
- Capital markets : Capital markets
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation : Dispute resolution Commercial litigation
- Dispute resolution: Stock market litigation : Dispute resolution Stock market litigation
- Dispute resolution: White-collar crime : Dispute resolution White-collar crime
- EU competition and distribution : EU competition and distribution
- Insolvency : Insolvency
- Intellectual property: Full-service firms : Intellectual property: Full-service firms
- Mergers and acquisitions : Mergers and acquisitions
- Private equity : Private equity
- Project finance and energy: Project finance : Project finance and energy: Project finance
- Real estate : Real estate
- Tax : Tax
Ghana
Hong Kong
Offices in Hong Kong
- Banking and finance : Banking and finance
- Capital markets (debt) : Capital markets (debt)
- Capital markets (equity) : Capital markets (equity)
- Corporate (including M&A) : Corporate (including M&A)
- Dispute resolution : Dispute resolution
- Dispute resolution International arbitration : Dispute resolution International arbitration
- Employment : Employment
- Investment funds : Investment funds
- Private equity : Private equity
- Projects and energy : Projects and energy
- Real estate : Real estate
- Regulatory : Regulatory
- Restructuring and insolvency : Restructuring and insolvency
- Structured finance and securitisation : Structured finance and securitisation
Indonesia
India
Italy
- Legal market overview : Legal market overview
- Banking and finance : Banking and finance
- Capital markets: Debt : Capital markets: Debt
- Capital markets: Equity : Capital markets: Equity
- Corporate and M&A: Milan and Rome : Corporate and M&A Milan and Rome
- Energy : Energy
- Restructuring and insolvency : Restructuring and insolvency
Japan
Offices in Tokyo
- Banking and finance : International firms and joint ventures
- Capital markets : International firms and joint ventures
- Corporate and M&A : International firms and joint ventures
- Projects and energy : International firms and joint ventures
- Real estate and construction : International firms and joint ventures
- Structured finance/securitisation : International firms and joint ventures
Kenya
Kuwait
London
Offices in London EC2Y and London EC2Y
- Corporate and commercial : Overview
- Corporate and commercial : Commercial contracts
- Corporate and commercial : Corporate tax
- Corporate and commercial : EU and competition
- Corporate and commercial : Equity capital markets: UK capability
- Corporate and commercial : Equity capital markets: US capability
- Corporate and commercial : Financial services
- Corporate and commercial : M&A: upper mid-market and premium deals, 250m+
- Corporate and commercial : M&A: US law capability
- Corporate and commercial : Private equity: transactions
- Corporate and commercial : VAT and indirect tax
- Crime, fraud and licensing : Fraud: civil
- Crime, fraud and licensing : Fraud: corporate crime
- Dispute resolution : Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Dispute resolution : Commercial litigation
- Dispute resolution : International arbitration
- Dispute resolution : Public international law
- Dispute resolution : Tax litigation
- Finance : Overview
- Finance : Acquisition finance
- Finance : Asset finance and leasing
- Finance : Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Finance : Commodities: derivatives
- Finance : Corporate restructuring and insolvency
- Finance : Debt capital markets
- Finance : Derivatives and structured products
- Finance : Emerging markets
- Finance : High yield
- Finance : Investment funds
- Finance : Islamic finance
- Finance : Securitisation
- Finance : Trade finance
- Human resources : Overview
- Human resources : Employee share schemes
- Human resources : Employment
- Human resources : Pensions
- Insurance : Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- Insurance : Professional negligence
- Private client : Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Projects, energy and natural resources : Overview
- Projects, energy and natural resources : Infrastructure
- Projects, energy and natural resources : Mining and minerals
- Projects, energy and natural resources : Oil and gas
- Projects, energy and natural resources : Power (including electricity, nuclear and renewables)
- Projects, energy and natural resources : Private finance initiative (PFI)
- Projects, energy and natural resources : Water
- Real estate : Overview
- Real estate : Commercial property
- Real estate : Construction
- Real estate : Environment
- Real estate : Planning
- Real estate : Property finance
- Real estate : Property litigation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) : IT and telecoms
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) : Intellectual property
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) : Media and entertainment
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) : Pharmaceuticals and biotechnology
- Transport : Rail
Luxembourg
Offices in Luxembourg
- Banking and finance : Banking and finance
- Corporate and M&A : Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution : Dispute resolution
- Employment : Employment
- Insurance : Insurance
- IP and IT : IP and IT
- Investment funds : Investment funds
- Real estate : Real estate
- Tax : Tax
Morocco
Netherlands
Offices in Amsterdam
- Asset finance and structured finance : Asset finance and structured finance
- Banking and finance : Banking and finance
- Capital markets : Capital markets
- Commercial litigation : Commercial litigation
- Corporate and M&A : Corporate and M&A
- Private equity : Private equity
- Tax : Tax
Philippines
Poland
Offices in Warsaw
- Banking and finance : Banking and finance
- Capital markets (debt) : Capital markets (debt)
- Capital markets (equity) : Capital markets (equity)
- Competition/antitrust : Competition/antitrust
- Corporate and M&A : Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution : Dispute resolution
- Employment : Employment
- Energy and natural resources : Energy and natural resources
- Intellectual property : Intellectual property
- Real estate : Real estate
- TMT : TMT
- Tax : Tax
Portugal
Offices in Lisbon
- Legal market overview : Legal market overview
- Banking and finance : Banking and finance
- Capital markets : Capital markets
- Corporate and M&A : Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution : Dispute resolution
- EU and competition : EU and competition
- Employment : Employment
- Energy and environment : Energy and environment
- Insolvency and restructuring : Insolvency and restructuring
- Intellectual property : Intellectual property
- Project finance : Project finance
- Public law : Public law
- Real estate : Real estate
- Tax : Tax
Qatar
Russia
Offices in Moscow
- Legal market overview : Legal market overview
- Banking and finance : Banking and finance
- Capital markets : Capital markets
- Corporate and M&A: Moscow : Corporate and M&A: Moscow
- Dispute resolution : Dispute resolution
- Employment : Employment
- Energy and natural resources : Energy and natural resources
- Intellectual property : Intellectual property
- Public private partnership : Public private partnership
- Real estate : Real estate
- TMT : TMT
- Tax : Tax
Sweden
Offices in Stockholm
- Banking and finance : Banking and finance
- Capital markets : Capital markets
- Corporate and commercial : Corporate and commercial
- Dispute resolution : Dispute resolution
- EU and competition : EU and competition
- Employment : Employment
- IT and telecoms : IT and telecoms
- Insurance : Insurance
- Intellectual property and media : Intellectual property and media
- Mergers and acquisitions : Mergers and acquisitions
- Real estate : Real estate
- Tax : Tax
Singapore
Offices in Singapore
- Legal market overview : Legal market overview
- Banking and finance : Foreign firms
- Capital markets : Foreign firms
- Corporate and M&A : Foreign firms
- Projects and energy : Foreign firms
- Restructuring and insolvency : Foreign firms
South Korea
Thailand
Offices in Bangkok
- Banking and finance : Banking and finance
- Corporate and M&A (including capital markets) : Corporate and M&A (including capital markets)
- Projects and energy : Projects and energy
- Real estate and construction : Real estate and construction
- Restructuring and insolvency : Restructuring and insolvency
- TMT : TMT
Tunisia
United States
Offices in New York
- Finance : Structured finance
- Investment fund formation and management : Alternative/hedge funds
- Investment fund formation and management : Private equity funds
- Mergers, acquisitions and buyouts : Antitrust
- Mergers, acquisitions and buyouts : M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Tax : Employee benefits and executive compensation
- Tax : International