Mr Manoj Pillay Sandrasegara > WongPartnership LLP > Singapore, Singapore > Lawyer Profile

Mr Manoj Pillay Sandrasegara

+65 6416 8106 manoj.sandra@wongpartnership.com View profile

Work Department

Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group; Restructuring & Insolvency Practice; Indonesia Practice.

Position

Co-Head – Special Situations Advisory Practices

Career

Manoj leads WongPartnership’s cross-border restructuring practice in Asia. He is globally ranked as a pre-eminent practitioner having extensive experience in complex cross-border debt restructurings acting for borrowers, court-appointed administrators and special situation investors.

Manoj is the Chairman of the Insolvency Practitioner’s Association of Singapore and an elected member of the International Insolvency Institute. He was appointed by the Ministry of Law to the Committee to establish Singapore as a debt restructuring centre in Asia. He is a regular speaker on the international circuit on cross-border restructurings.

Publications

• Getting the Deal Through – Restructuring & Insolvency 2013 to 2017 – Singapore Chapter

Work Highlights

Matters of significance in which Manoj has been involved in include acting for the following:

• Hyflux Ltd in its US$2.3 billion restructuring.
• ExxonMobil in its investment in Jurong Aromatics Limited’s distressed plant which had a US$1.5 billion debt burden.
• Emas Chiyoda Subsea in its US$900 million debt restructuring which also involved a Chapter 11 process.

Languages

English.

Memberships

Chairman, Insolvency Practitioners’ Association of Singapore; Law Society of Singapore’s Insolvency Practice Committee; Elected member, International Insolvency Institute; Committee Member, Ministry of Law’s Committee-to strengthen Singapore as a Restructuring Hub.

Education

Admitted, 1994, Singapore Bar; National University of Singapore (LL.B., Hons.).