Virtus Law LLP

Angeline is a senior associate at Virtus Law. She assists clients with various ship finance matters such as sale and leaseback transactions and mortgage registrations. Angeline also has experience in a wide range of corporate matters including mergers and acquisitions, corporate advisory and compliance as well as non-contentious employment matters.

Christine Ong

Christine is a partner at Virtus Law. She specialises in litigation and employment and she has experience in a wide range of commercial disputes. Christine focuses on civil and commercial disputes, and has represented accused persons in criminal proceedings. She has also worked on various employment matters including advising on retrenchment, termination of employment, duties owed by employees to their employer and on post-termination covenants. Christine has provided advice on both contentious and non-contentious matters as well as drafted, reviewed, advised on and amended various legal documentation and agreements, including employment contracts and company policies.

Colin Jarraw

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.

Daryll Ng

Daryll is a partner at Virtus Law and also heads the Stephenson Harwood (Singapore) Alliance dispute resolution practice in Singapore. He specialises in marine and commercial dispute resolution. Qualified to practice both in Singapore and the UK, Daryll has appeared at all levels of the Singapore Court and has acted in numerous arbitrations and mediations.

Eunice Yao

Eunice is a corporate partner at Virtus Law. Eunice’s main areas of practice include capital markets, mergers and acquisitions and FinTech. As a corporate lawyer, Eunice advises on initial public offerings of companies, and advises issue managers and companies across a wide spectrum of industries, including medical groups, education, real estate, oil and gas, and technology companies listed on the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited (SGX-ST). She regularly advises on corporate actions, including equity and debt fund raising, and was company secretary for companies listed on the SGX-ST. Eunice has notable experience serving a wide array of clients across various locations including Singapore, China and Australia. Her insights are also enriched by her tenure at a full-service Australian law firm's Sydney office. Having served as legal counsel with the largest consumer bank in Singapore, Eunice understands the needs of clients particularly in the financial and technology services sector. She remains involved in strategic FinTech enterprise, sourcing, outsourcing and compliance related initiatives.

Jason Yang

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.

Lauren Tang

Lauren is a partner at Virtus Law and is an experienced commercial litigator with a focus on restructuring and insolvency. Her highlights include advising and assisting one of the first foreign companies in successfully obtaining a scheme moratorium after the 2017 amendments to the Singapore Companies Act (Cap.50) (which resulted in the first reported judgment on the requirements of a scheme moratorium); representing a major secured lender on the collapse of a well-known Singapore oil trader (Hin Leong Trading); advising on one of the first pre-pack schemes approved under section 71 of Singapore's Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act since it came into effect in July 2020; and acting for the agent bank of a syndicate of banks in the restructuring of the obligations of a business trust through the placing of its trustee manager under a scheme of arrangement, which was the first of its kind. She has also acted for a global freight forwarder in a complex Singapore High Court matter involving allegations of breach of duty of care; acted for a Singapore public listed company and its subsidiary in a complicated vessel-related dispute and acted for a cryptocurrency purchaser against a distributor in a successful SIAC arbitration. Lauren has appeared at all levels of the Singapore courts, including the Court of Appeal and also has been involved in SIAC/ HKIAC / LMAA arbitrations. Lauren is qualified in practise in Singapore and England & Wales.

Sheetal Sandhu

Sheetal is a corporate and commercial partner at Virtus Law. Her practice focuses primarily on private M&A transactions where she has advised on complex and high-profile M&A deals across various industries including technology, financial services, shipping and healthcare. Her wide range of expertise allows her to take a pragmatic approach in structuring transactions and assisting clients to achieve their commercial objectives. Sheetal also advises on joint ventures, general corporate and commercial matters. In recent years, Sheetal has developed an active practice in the financial regulatory, technology and data protection space, where she counts fintech unicorns amongst her clients, and advises on headline transactions. Sheetal is fluent in English and also in spoken Bahasa Indonesia and Malay, which has helped her develop her network in the region, particularly in Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia.

Yi Lei Tan

Yi Lei is a senior associate at Virtus Law. His practice area is in litigation and dispute resolution and he has assisted in a wide range of commercial disputes. Yi Lei assists clients in a wide variety of commercial disputes before the Singapore Courts, arbitrations as well as out-of-court proceedings such as mediation. He has a strong focus in insolvency and restructuring matters, assisting both companies in distress as well as creditors seeking to maximise their recovery. Most recently, Yi Lei has been assisting in cryptocurrency-related disputes which often bear an international element. Yi Lei has assisted in handling a wide range of contentious matters, including international trade fraud actions, defamation actions and cryptocurrency-related disputes. These matters are often international in nature, and Yi Lei has assisted his clients to manage litigations, and pre-litigation work in Dubai, Holland and USA. Yi Lei is also regularly involved in insolvency and restructuring matters, assisting in the first application for a scheme of arrangement moratorium by a foreign company under the 2017 Companies Act amendments (which resulted in the first reported judgment on the requirements of a scheme of arrangement). Yi Lei also assists major secured lenders to recover assets from the restructuring of various large corporations such as the Bourbon Corporation, the Hin Leong Trading group and Agritrade International. Yi Lei further successfully assisted liquidators and bankruptcy trustees in Hong Kong and the People's Republic of China to obtain recognition orders from the Singapore Courts to assist the respective liquidations / bankruptcies. He has acted for and assisted in a number of cryptocurrency related matters, including successfully obtaining judgments and arbitration awards in relation to SAFT disputes, winding up a counterparty in a SAFT dispute, and acting in relation to coin issuance and cryptocurrency fund management disputes.

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