Shipping: local firms
Hall of Fame
The lawyers at the very top of the profession, widely known and respected by peers and clients for their longstanding involvement in market-leading work.
Hall of fameDentons
Lawrence Teh is the Global Co-Head of Dentons' International Arbitration practice and a senior partner in Dentons Rodyk’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice group. He is Co-Head of Dentons Rodyk's International Arbitration and Shipping practice groups. He has particular experience in handling commercial disputes including those of international trade and commodities, maritime and aviation, banking and financial services, onshore and offshore construction, mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and other investments, and insurance. Lawrence advises clients and acts as counsel and appears regularly as lead counsel in the Singapore courts, in arbitration, mediation and other forms of dispute resolution. He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), a fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (SIArb) and is appointed regularly as an arbitrator in international disputes under rules and auspices of international arbitration institutions like the ICC, SIAC, HKIAC, SCMA, KCAB, AIAC, SHIAC and THAC. He is member of the Nominations Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA), the Administrator of the Comité Maritime International (CMI) and a Master of the Bench (Overseas) of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. He is named in numerous legal guides and directories including the Chambers Asia-Pacific, The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific, Who’s Who Legal, Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific, Best Lawyers and Asialaw Leading Lawyers.
Leading individuals
The strongest partners in their field, leading on market-leading deals and endorsed by peers and clients alike.
Virtus Law LLP
Colin is an experienced shipping finance lawyer. He heads the Singapore law side of the Banking and Finance Department of Stephenson Harwood (Singapore) Alliance. Clients have described him as efficient and meticulous. Colin regularly acts as Singapore legal counsel for all the major shipping finance banks in high value ship finance and complex leasing transactions. He has also advised owners in ship sale and purchase transactions, charterparties, shipbuilding contracts and vessel registrations and de-registrations as well as yacht financing.
Virtus Law LLP
Jason's main practice areas are vessel finance and leasing, restructuring and insolvency and corporate law. Jason has acted for leading vessel finance banks, ship owners, lessors and operators in range of complex financing and sale and leaseback transactions. He also excels in advising banking clients and other creditors on the Singapore law aspects of asset recovery, restructuring and enforcement strategy and has been extensively involved in the recent Emas, Ezra, Swiber, Swissco and Rickmers Maritime insolvencies. In addition to the above, Jason has considerable experience advising on private mergers and acquisitions, corporate compliance, general corporate advisory, personal data protection and non-contentious employment law matters.
Joseph Tan Jude Benny LLP
Danny is a Senior Partner at Joseph Tan Jude Benny LLP, specialising in Shipping and Admiralty law. His areas of work include shipping disputes on Charterparties, Offshore Oil & Gas, casualties at sea, bunker disputes, contamination of liquid cargo and shipping transactional work such as Shipbuilding, Ship Financing, Sale & Purchase and Registration of vessels.