Mr Rodney Keong > Dentons Rodyk > Singapore, Singapore > Lawyer Profile
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Mr Rodney Keong
Work Department
Arbitration, Banking, Commercial Banks, Commercial Litigation, Construction, Employment Disputes, Financial Services Litigation, International Trade, Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Professional Liability Litigation, Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy, Securities and Shareholder Litigation, Trade, WTO and Customs
Position
Rodney Keong is a senior partner in Dentons Rodyk’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution and Arbitration practice groups. He is also Co-Head of the International Trade practice and the Singapore-Korea relationship partner.
Rodney’s area of practice is in commercial litigation, arbitration and mediation. He is experienced in a wide range of commercial cases, from construction and engineering, corporate, shareholders’ and investment disputes, to banking, insolvency and restructuring cases. He is also experienced in employment, negligence, public liability insurance, trust and electronic fraud cases. He also advises and acts for clients in major and complex fintech / cryptocurrency disputes and claims.
In construction and engineering disputes, he has represented insurers, developers, main and specialist contractors, and subcontractors, as well as building owners and management corporations. He also has particular experience in advising and acting for clients involved in major / catastrophic engineering incidents.
Rodney has acted for and advised leading international trading houses in relation to international sale of goods transactions involving various types of international sale contracts.
He has conducted seminars and talks for MNCs, banks and financial institutions, Singapore Business Federation, Real Estate Developers’ Association of Singapore, Singapore Corporate Counsel Association, amongst others, on arbitration, litigation, contract, construction and banking and property law topics.
Career
Senior Partner, Dentons Rodyk & Davidson LLP (formerly Rodyk & Davidson LLP), 2002 – present
Helen Yeo & Partners, 2001 – 2002
Bih Li & Lee, 1997 – 2001
Rajah & Tann, 1998
Languages
English, Mandarin
Memberships
Appointed by the Chief Justice onto the Inquiry Panel, 2015
Education
National University of Singapore, 1996, LLB (Hons)
Lawyer Rankings
Singapore > International arbitration
The international arbitration practice at Dentons Rodyk is ‘professional, effective, and extremely competent’, consisting of ‘reputable and high-quality partners’. Chinese state-owned corporates and large Indonesian clients spanning a wide range of sectors entrust the team with complex, cross-jurisdictional mandates across construction and engineering, energy, shipping, and international trade. Lawrence Teh leads the team with particular experience handling commercial disputes, including those linked to international trade and commodities. He is joined at leadership level by Herman Jeremiah, who has extensive shareholder and joint venture dispute knowledge. Rodney Keong is ‘commercially savvy as well as a very good lawyer’ and is recommended.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Projects and energy: local firms
- Real estate: local firms
- Start-up and venture capital – Foreign firms
- Start-up and venture capital – Local firms
Firm Rankings
- Antitrust and competition: local firms
- Banking and finance: local firms
- Construction: Local firms
- Data protection and cyber security: Local firms
- Dispute resolution
- Fintech and financial services regulatory: foreign firms
- Insurance: local firms
- Intellectual property: Local firms
- Investment funds: local firms
- Labour and employment: local firms
- Private wealth and family law – local firms
- Restructuring and insolvency: local firms
- Shipping: local firms
- Tax: local firms
- TMT: local firms
- Capital markets: equity and debt: local firms
- Corporate and M&A: local firms
- International arbitration
- Projects: foreign firms
- Corporate and M&A: foreign firms