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 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 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 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.
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 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 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.