About
The firm: RPC is a modern, innovative and commercially focused international law firm. It has over 80 partners and more than 600 employees based in Hong Kong, Singapore, London and Bristol.
The firm has an excellent reputation in Asia for delivering top-quality advice and client service on both contentious and non-contentious matters. Its lawyers combine knowledge of the local markets with an understanding of its clients’ business and legal needs to provide practical and commercial solutions.
The firm offers clients a range of advice, broadly covering corporate transactional work, dispute resolution (including international arbitration), insurance and reinsurance, and shipping and international trade in Asia. It ascribes its success to the level of service which it give to clients – delivering what they want, on time and in an easily accessible manner that is localised. The firm tailors its approach to every instruction it receives and promotes innovative charging structures to ensure it is able to advise cost-effectively and quickly, from both a strategic and commercial perspective.
As one of a few international law firms operating in Singapore under a joint law venture, clients are able to obtain seamless advice from a single entity. It draws together the international expertise and resources of RPC and the local knowledge of Premier Law to provide an exceptional service. The team of leading lawyers combines decades of experience in the region with unrivalled expertise in their respective markets.
Through RPC Premier Law Pte Ltd – known as RPC Premier Law – the firm can provide an extensive range of advice on multi-jurisdictional transactions involving English and Singaporean law. Its clients are also able to receive representation in the Singapore courts through Premier Law LLC.
Areas of practice: The firm offers a comprehensive range of services in Singapore with expertise in legal sectors including construction; corporate and commercial; dispute resolution (including banking and financial disputes and international arbitration); energy; insurance and reinsurance; shipping and logistics and international trade.
It has one of the largest and most well respected insurance teams in Asia, with unrivalled, in-depth knowledge of the Asian insurance industry. The team enjoys an outstanding reputation for insurance disputes of all classes with particular expertise in power, energy and infrastructure, international property, marine and transportation, FI/D&O.
The marine practice is best known for its expertise in marine insurance, with in-depth expertise in maritime salvage, ship casualties and incidents relating to the offshore energy space. The team has extensive cross-border experience, providing a global service to clients wherever they encounter issues.
The firm’s commercial disputes team provides the full scope of dispute resolution services including negotiation, mediation, international arbitration and litigation (through Premier Law). The team is particularly known for its strengths in banking and financial disputes.
The corporate group handles the full range of transactional and advisory work in Singapore, Indonesia and across the region. The team has a substantial depth of experience including private equity and venture capital, M&A and joint ventures, corporate restructurings and regulatory and compliance matters. The team’s experience has a considerable cross-border element to it.