Well-regarded for its ability to combine ‘commercial sense, technical knowledge and personal soft skills’, WongPartnership LLP boasts extensive experience across all types of restructuring and insolvency mandates, with particular expertise in representing debtors and special situation investors. The practice is led by Smitha Menon. Sandrasegara has extensive experience in complex cross-border debt restructurings act for borrowers, court-appointed administrators and special situation investors, while Menon, dubbed the ’leading light in restructuring’, specialises in corporate disputes and restructuring. Clayton Chong’s practice includes restructuring and insolvency with a focus on formal and out-of-court cross border restructurings
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Témoignages

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  • ‘Smitha Menon's team combines commercial sense, technical knowledge and skills.’

  • 'Joel Chng is highly commercial and responsive.'
  • 'Clayton Chong has excellent commercial nous and technical sense. A pleasure to work with.'
  • 'Daniel Liu is a technical genius with a knack for finding the solutions that hit home.’
  • ‘Great team, down-to-earth, reliable and great to work with.’

  • ‘Smitha Menon is the leading light in restructuring. She has created a team of highly motivated and brilliant individuals.'

  • ‘Joel Chng is practical, gets the job done and is ever reliable.'

  • ‘They are helpful and friendly.'

Clients clés

  • EY Corporate Advisors Pte Ltd
  • Sun Hung Kai Capital Limited
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory Services Pte. Ltd
  • La Fourchette (UK) Limited
  • PT Agung Podomoro Land Tbk
  • Corpbond IV Ltd
  • Senoko Energy Pte. Ltd.
  • UBS AG
  • Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC Bank)
  • Grant Thornton Singapore Pte. Ltd.

Points forts

  • Acting as Singapore counsel to UBS Group AG with respect to its merger with Credit Suisse Group AG. Under the rescue deal, UBS has agreed to buy Credit Suisse for 3 billion Swiss francs and to assume up to 5 billion francs in losses.
  • Acting for the judicial managers of Xihe Holdings in its restructuring process and structured sale of one of the largest tanker fleets in the world with estimated debt exceeding US$1 billion.
  • Acting for a syndicate of lenders in the restructuring and refinancing of the S$2.1 billion facilities granted to Senoko Energy Pte. Ltd.

Avocats

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Responsable de la pratique

Smitha Menon

Autres avocats clés

Clayton Chong; Daniel Liu; Joel Chng; Stephanie Yeo