Dentons Rodyk

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

Debby Lim is a senior partner in Dentons Rodyk’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution Group and co-heads the Firm’s Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy practice. With a robust cross-border commercial litigation portfolio, Debby brings over 17 years of specialised experience in insolvency, banking and finance disputes, complex asset recovery, and fraud investigations.

She is recognised for leading precedent-setting, high-stakes restructuring and insolvency mandates across the Asia-Pacific, including landmark matters involving judicial management, schemes of arrangement, and the enforcement of creditor rights in complex corporate collapses. Debby routinely advises and represents debtors, creditors, and insolvency officeholders in contested schemes, priority disputes, enforcement proceedings, and antecedent transaction challenges.

Debby has been involved in many market-leading deals which are the first of their kind and has a “practice of firsts” which includes the first pre-packaged scheme of arrangement and first judicial management involving a foreign incorporated entity. More recently, she advised the debtor group in Re Picotin Pte Ltd. [2024] SGHC 156, which is the first reported decision involving the successful grant of related company moratoria.

She has earned a stellar reputation for her work on high-profile, complex cross-border insolvency matters and her outstanding appellate advocacy, being the youngest lead counsel to successfully argue two complex appeals before an expanded five-judge Singapore Court of Appeal coram.

Internationally recognised for her expertise, Debby is one of the first three Singapore-qualified lawyers to be bestowed the prestigious fellowship by INSOL International. She contributes actively to thought leadership through scholarly writing, including for LexisNexis Annotated Laws of Singapore, and recently participated in UNCITRAL Working Group V deliberations on cross-border insolvency frameworks.

In 2025, Debby was awarded the Woman of the Year in Restructuring (Asia) by the International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC), in recognition of her leadership, mentorship, and contributions to the profession. She is also the first ever recipient of the Christopher Bathurst Prize and subsequently did a placement with Fountain Court Chambers in London, where she worked with leading English barristers and Queen’s Counsel.

Debby also holds key leadership positions within the legal profession. She is the Co-Chair of the Law Society of Singapore’s Publications Committee and Vice-Chair of its Insolvency Practice Committee. Committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, Debby currently serves as the Asia Regional Vice Director of Membership of the International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC), where she also mentors the Indonesian Network, and was formerly Co-Chair of the IWIRC Singapore Network. She is a founding member of the Law Society’s Women in Practice Task Force and sits on Dentons Rodyk’s Women’s Committee.

Beyond her professional commitments, Debby is deeply involved in pro bono advocacy. She is an empanelled state-assigned counsel with the Legal Assistance Scheme for Capital Offences (LASCO), representing individuals facing the death penalty, regardless of nationality. Most recently, she argued Azuin bin Mohd Tap v Public Prosecutor [2025] SGCA 8, further solidifying her standing as a skilled litigator beyond commercial law.

Senior Partner, Dentons Rodyk & Davidson LLP (2021 to Present) Shook Lin & Bok LLP (2009 to 2020) TSMP Law Corporation (2008 to 2009) Tan Kok Quan Partnership (2006 to 2008)

English, Mandarin

Member, Law Society of Singapore Co-Vice Chairperson, Publications Committee of the Law Society of Singapore Member, Women in Practice Committee of the Law Society of Singapore Member, Singapore Academy of Law Fellow, INSOL International Fellow, Insolvency Practitioners Association of Singapore

National University of Singapore, 2006, LLB (Hons)