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Soh Yin Chuin

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Rahmat Lim & Partners

Rahmat Lim & Partners

Malaysia

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Rahmat Lim & Partners‘ team has a maritime and aviation specialism and capabilities assisting clients in the breadth of contentious and non-contentious matters therein. The team handles vessel and mortgage registrations, secured lending and leasing cases. It also represents clients in litigation and arbitration concerning charterparties, international trade, and offshore oil and gas issues. The practice is co-led by Soh Yin Chuin whose expertise is in loan and lease financing, debt restructuring, and maritime assets enforcement; Jack Yow who handles corporate and banking litigation as well as insolvency proceedings; and Chong Yee Leong whose work covers international arbitration and restructuring in the energy and infrastructure sectors.
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Phone
+603 2299 3977
Email
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Work Department
Banking & Finance, Maritime & Aviation
Position

Yin Chuin is a Partner in the Firm's Financial Services Department.

Career

Yin Chuin’s principal area of practice is Maritime & Aviation. He concentrates on banking and asset finance transactions, with a particular focus in the maritime and offshore sectors. He is dual-qualified in both Singapore and Malaysia, and regularly advises lenders, bondholders, equity investors, trusts, owners and lessees in lending, leasing and debt restructuring matters involving vessels, offshore assets, aircraft and equipment.

Chambers Global noted that Yin Chuin “continues to develop a reputation as an adviser on complex matters concerning shipping-related leasing and loan transactions”. In Chambers Asia-Pacific, Yin Chuin was ranked as an Up and Coming Lawyer, and noted as having “a growing reputation in the market” and cited by clients as “very experienced and committed”. Yin Chuin was also recommended for his expertise in ship financing by The Legal 500 Asia.

He joined Allen & Gledhill LLP, Singapore as an Associate after completing his pupillage in 2004. In 2009, he was seconded to the London office of Linklaters LLP. Yin Chuin was called to the Malaysian Bar and joined Rahmat Lim & Partners in 2015.

Languages
English and Bahasa Malaysia.
Education

Yin Chuin was awarded the NUS-ASEAN Undergraduate Scholarship to the National University of Singapore, where he completed his LL.B. (Hons) degree in 2003. He was admitted to the Singaporean Bar in 2004 and the Malaysian Bar in 2015.

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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘Very efficient and skilled team.’

    ‘Soh Yin Chuin is our go-to guy. Incredibly skilled, service-minded and efficient.’

    'Soh Yin Chuin is very good.'

Work highlights

Advised a leading agri-business conglomerate based in Singapore in respect of an ongoing proceedings before the High Court of Malaya and the Court of Appeal in respect of the conduct of arbitration proceedings under the Palm Oil Refiners Association of Malaysia (PORAM) arbitration rules.