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What we say about the firm's legal practice in Singapore
Banking and finance
Within Foreign firms, Latham & Watkins LLP is a second tier firm,
Latham & Watkins LLP ‘provides high-quality service’ handling high-profile acquisition and project finance work across Indonesia and Singapore. Clarinda Tjia-Dharmadi advised a consortium of banks as lead arrangers on a $400m bank loan for PT Saptaindra Sejati.
Within Local firms Leading individuals
Capital markets
Within Foreign firms, Latham & Watkins LLP is a first tier firm,
Latham & Watkins LLP’s practice head Michael Sturrock represented PT Pertamina (Persero) on $1bn and $500m notes offerings. Together with Min Yee Ng, Sturrock represented the underwriters in ICICI Bank’s $1bn notes offering. Indian capital markets specialist Rajiv Gupta assisted Vedanta Resources with its $1.65bn high-yield bond offering.
Within Local firms Leading individuals
Corporate and M&A
Within Foreign firms, Latham & Watkins LLP is a second tier firm,
Mark Nelson and Michael Sturrock lead Latham & Watkins LLP ‘high-quality’ team. Sin Chei Liang advises on Singapore law-based transactions and the Singapore elements of international transactions under the firm’s QLFP licence. Together with Rajiv Gupta, Sturrock advised Vedanta Resources on the acquisition of Cairn India.
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, Latham & Watkins LLP is a first tier firm,
Latham & Watkins LLP’s Stephen McWilliams and Joseph Bevash, now managing partner of the Tokyo office, assisted Jurong Aromatics and its affiliates with the $2.08bn Jurong Aromatics petrochemicals project. McWilliams advised International Power and the project company, as sponsor/borrower, on the $390m Uch II power project in Pakistan. Clarinda Tjia-Dharmadi specialises in project finance, notably in Indonesia.
Within Local firms Leading individuals
Restructuring and insolvency
Within Foreign firms, Latham & Watkins LLP is a second tier firm,
At Latham & Watkins LLP, Joseph Bevash in Tokyo, Clarinda Tjia-Dharmadi and Stephen McWilliams advised on the S$2.65bn Senoko Power Project refinancing. Tjia-Dharmadi and David Miles represented the mandated lead arrangers in Protelindo’s $475m refinancing. Head of the Singapore law practice Sin Chei Liang handles capital and corporate restructuring.
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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
- Investment funds : Investment funds
- Projects and energy : Projects and energy
Belgium
Offices in Brussels
China
Offices in Shanghai and Beijing
- Banking and finance : Foreign firms
- Corporate & M&A : Foreign firms
- Private equity/venture capital : Foreign firms
- Projects and energy : Foreign firms
Germany
Offices in Hamburg, Frankfurt, and Munich
- Antitrust : Antitrust
- Banking and finance : Bank lending
- Capital markets : Capital markets
- Corporate and M&A : Large deals
- Dispute resolution : Dispute resolution
- Employment : Employment
- Information technology and outsourcing : Information technology and outsourcing
- Insolvency and restructuring : Restructuring
- Media : Media: Press and publishing
- Private equity : Private equity
- Real estate and construction : Real estate
- Tax : Tax
Spain
Offices in Madrid and Barcelona
- Capital markets : Capital markets
- Capital markets (US law) : Capital markets (US law)
- Corporate and M&A : Corporate and M&A
- EU and competition : EU and competition
- Tax : Tax
France
Offices in Paris
- Banking and finance : Banking and finance
- Capital markets : Capital markets
- Dispute resolution : Commercial litigation
- Dispute resolution : International arbitration
- EU competition and distribution : EU competition and distribution
- Employment : Employment
- IT, telecoms and the internet : IT, telecoms and the internet
- Insolvency : Insolvency
- Mergers and acquisitions : Mergers and acquisitions
- Private equity : Private equity
- Tax : Tax
Hong Kong
Offices in Hong Kong
- Legal market overview : Legal market overview
- Banking and finance : Banking and finance
- 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
- Private equity : Private equity
- Projects and energy : Projects and energy
- Regulatory : Regulatory
- Restructuring and insolvency : Restructuring and insolvency
Indonesia
India
Italy
- Legal market overview : Legal market overview
- Banking and finance : Banking and finance
- Capital markets : Debt
- Capital markets : Equity
- Corporate and M&A: Milan and Rome : Corporate and M&A: Milan and Rome
- EU, regulatory and competition law : EU, regulatory and competition law
- Energy : Energy
- Real estate : Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency : Restructuring and insolvency
Japan
Offices in Tokyo
- Banking and finance : International firms and joint ventures
- Corporate and M&A : International firms and joint ventures
- Projects and energy : International firms and joint ventures
London
Offices in London
- 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 : M&A: upper mid-market and premium deals, 250m+
- Corporate and commercial : M&A: US law capability
- Corporate and commercial : Private equity: transactions
- Crime, fraud and licensing : Fraud: civil
- Dispute resolution : Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Dispute resolution : Commercial litigation
- Dispute resolution : International arbitration
- Dispute resolution : Public international law
- Finance : Overview
- Finance : Acquisition finance
- Finance : Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Finance : Corporate restructuring and insolvency
- Finance : Debt capital markets
- Finance : Derivatives and structured products
- Finance : Emerging markets
- Finance : High yield
- Finance : Islamic finance
- Human resources : Employment
- Human resources : Pensions
- Insurance : Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- 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)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) : Overview
- 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
Philippines
Qatar
Offices in Doha
Russia
Offices in Moscow
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
Saudi Arabia
Offices in Riyadh
- Legal market overview : Legal market overview
- Banking and finance : Banking and finance
- Capital markets : Capital markets
- Corporate and M&A : Corporate and M&A
- Projects and energy : Projects and energy
United States
Offices in Chicago, Washington DC, Silicon Valley, Costa Mesa, Newark, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston, and Boston
- Finance : Asset finance and leasing
- Finance : Bank lending (including other sources of financing)
- Finance : Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance : Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance : Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance : Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance : Corporate restructuring
- Finance : Financial services: regulatory
- Finance : Project finance
- Finance : Structured finance
- Industry focus : Energy: transaction and regulatory
- Industry focus : Environment: litigation
- Industry focus : Environment: transaction and regulatory
- Industry focus : Healthcare and life sciences
- Industry focus : Insurance: advice to policyholders
- Intellectual property : Overview
- Intellectual property : Copyright
- Intellectual property : Patent litigation: full coverage
- Intellectual property : Trademarks: litigation
- Investment fund formation and management : Private equity funds
- Investment fund formation and management : Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Litigation : International arbitration
- Litigation : Product liability and mass tort defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Litigation : Product liability and mass tort defense: toxic tort
- Litigation : Securities: shareholder litigation
- Litigation : Supreme Court and appellate
- Litigation : Trade secrets
- Litigation : White-collar criminal defense
- Media, technology and telecoms : Technology: data protection and privacy
- Media, technology and telecoms : Technology: outsourcing
- Media, technology and telecoms : Technology: transactions
- Media, technology and telecoms : Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Media, technology and telecoms : Telecoms and broadcast: transactional
- Mergers, acquisitions and buyouts : Antitrust
- Mergers, acquisitions and buyouts : M&A: mega-deals ($5bn+)
- Mergers, acquisitions and buyouts : Private equity buyouts
- Mergers, acquisitions and buyouts : Venture capital and emerging companies
- Real estate and construction : Land use/zoning
- Real estate and construction : Real estate
- Tax : Domestic tax: Central
- Tax : Domestic tax: East Coast
- Tax : Domestic tax: West Coast
- Tax : Employee benefits and executive compensation
- Tax : International
- Tax : Tax controversy