Mr Ajinderpal Singh > Dentons Rodyk > Singapore, Singapore > Lawyer Profile

Dentons Rodyk
80 RAFFLES PLACE
#33-00 UOB PLAZA 1
SINGAPORE 048624
Singapore

Work Department

Arbitration, Commercial Litigation, Competition and Antitrust, Financial Markets Litigation and Regulation, Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy

Position

Ajinderpal Singh is a senior partner in Dentons Rodyk’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution and Arbitration practice groups. He is Co-Head of the Restructuring, Insolvency & Bankruptcy, White Collar and Government Investigations and Competition & Antitrust practices. He is also the Singapore-India and Singapore-Indonesia relationship partner. As a banking and insolvency practitioner, Ajinder has presented judicial management petitions for several creditors. He acted for the judicial managers of Singapore Leasing Pte Ltd, Tang Dynasty and Showpla Asia Ltd. He has been involved in preparing schemes of arrangements between companies and their creditors and reconstruction and amalgamation schemes for solvent groups of companies, often under time-sensitive and pressing conditions. He has represented liquidators and assisted them in investigations into the affairs of the company, notably in cases involving fraud, cross border asset tracing actions and suspected insolvent and fraudulent trading. Most notably, he recently acted for a Chinese state owned fund to recover over US$60 million invested by way of bonds in a Singapore listed company. The case involved asset recovery actions across borders in Singapore, Hong Kong and China. Issues concerning the Singapore listed entity were widely reported in the media and the team had to take out multiple urgent freezing order applications. He is also representing Perpetual Trustee who is the trustee for retail investors, who are collectively owed S$500 million in the ongoing insolvency proceedings involving Hyflux, a Singapore desalination company. The matter is widely reported in the media. He has also acted for receivers. His banking experience includes complicated disputes concerning syndicated loans in excess of tens of millions of dollars.

Ajinder and his team are also authors of the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act Compendium (LexisNexis) released in November 2020. The IRDA was passed in July 2020 and represents the conclusion of a long review of Singapore’s insolvency laws and is aimed at positioning Singapore as a restructuring hub in Asia. The new laws incorporate elements of US Chapter 11 proceedings by way of moratorium proceedings allowing the debtor to remain in control pending presentation of proposals of its scheme of arrangement with creditors. Further Singapore has also become a signatory to the Model law. The IRDA Compendium is the only resource book published to date concerning the new laws and contains detailed section by section analysis with relevant case law expositions including a detailed write up on how the cross border elements in the new law are to apply including court to court protocols.

Ajinder has a broad and diverse range of arbitration experience. He has been involved in ICC, SIAC and other “ad hoc” arbitrations. He is well versed with issues related to the enforcement of arbitral awards, including applications for the setting aside of such awards. He has represented an investment fund vehicle against a local listed company in a dispute over their investment in a condominium development project. He acted for a major Japanese institution against its Indonesian joint venture partner. He has been involved in proceedings concerning the setting aside of a substantial arbitral award in favour of an American company against a state owned Indonesian oil and gas company.

Career

Senior Partner – Dentons Rodyk & Davidson LLP (2004 – present)
Rajah & Tann (1998 – 2003)
Drew & Napier (1997 – 1998)

Languages

English

Education

University of Leeds, LLB (Hons)

Lawyer Rankings

Singapore > Antitrust and competition: local firms

Dentons Rodyk utilises a strong network of expertise throughout Singapore and the Asia Pacific, with practice head Gerald Singham overseeing a practice which assists clients with a diverse range of competition and antitrust issues, from M&A and JVs to anti-competitive agreements before the CCCS. Co-head Mohamad Rizuan Bin Pathie‘s expertise covers a number of key industries including the likes of energy, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, technology and transportation, while Ajinderpal Singh specialises in representing clients in cartel and price-fixing investigations.

Singapore > Dispute resolution

Dentons Rodyk has a large team of dispute resolution specialists covering a broad spectrum of cases, from clinical negligence defence to construction disputes; shipping, trade and commodities cases; and commercial litigation and arbitration. The Singapore team has an impressive array of local, regional and multinational clients. Clients recognise the breadth of team and its ability to handle cross-border and multi-jurisdictional cases. Siang Pheng Lek heads the litigation and dispute resolution practice and is a leading medical defence advocate. Kia Jeng Koh is deputy head of the team with an established record in building and construction disputes. Lawrence Teh is a senior name in commodities and trade cases, and Mark Seah and Paul Wong are experienced commercial litigation specialists. Ajinderpal Singh is noted for partnership and shareholder disputes, and banking and insolvency cases. Joint deputy managing partner Edric Pan takes on international disputes as well as insurance and aviation-related claims, while Huai Yuan Chia oversees proceedings involving fraud allegations and Jen Wei Loh focuses on the shipping sector, including insolvency and damages matters.

Singapore > Restructuring and insolvency: local firms

Dentons Rodyk assists a broad range of creditors, debtors, receivers and liquidators on contentious and non-contentious matters, including debt restructurings, bankruptcies, insolvencies and surrounding disputes. Ajinderpal Singh, who regularly acts for liquidators, receivers, judicial managers and trustees, jointly leads the team alongside Kia Jeng Koh, who advises on restructurings, recovery and enforcement mandates, with additional expertise in construction-related mandates. Debby Lim is ‘exceptionally knowledgeable’ in the field of insolvency-related litigation and is another key contact in the group.