Shook Lin & Bok LLP

The firm: Shook Lin & Bok LLP is a leading full-service law firm in Singapore with a strong Asian presence and global reach. The firm has more than a century of rich legal heritage with a number of partners who are eminent lawyers in their respective areas of expertise.

Much of the firm’s success lies in its team of well-trained and experienced lawyers who are innovative and effective in solving complex and difficult legal issues, and who are able to provide customised and value-added legal services to its clients. As a result, many of its clients, comprising both local and international financial institutions, large multinational corporations and professional firms have been with them since its establishment.

Main areas of practice
Banking and finance: Advises on many high-profile, complex and significant local and cross-border banking and finance transactions including property financing, green financing, leveraged and acquisition financing, asset financing, cross-border financing and bilateral and syndicate lending

Capital markets: Advises on both local and cross-border capital markets transactions covering both equity and debt instruments including IPOs, dual listings, rights issues, share placement, equity and equity-linked, debt / certificates of deposits programmes and drawdowns, stand-alone debt listings, liability management exercises relating to existing debt instruments, securitisation and rated and unrated commercial mortgage backed securities

Construction and projects: Advises on a broad range of contentious and non-contentious construction and infrastructure matters, including adjudication proceedings, project documentation for developers and main contractors, as well as build-to-suit transactions

Corporate/M&A: Advises on a broad range of local and cross-border M&A transactions including tender offers, buyouts, mergers, reverse takeovers, joint ventures and amalgamations, privatisations, and trade and business sales and purchases

Corporate real estate: Advises corporates on all aspects of real estate transactions involving industrial, commercial, and residential property

Employment: Advises on a broad range of employment matters including employment contracts, employment handbooks, employee share option schemes, wrongful termination, organisational restructuring issues, misuse of confidential information, restrictive covenants and fiduciary duties

Energy and natural resources: Advises the oil and gas, petrochemical, minerals, waste-water and utilities sectors on a broad range of legal issues including project financing, capital fund raising, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, divestment, employment and regulatory and licensing issues

Environmental, social and governance: Advises on environmental, social and governance issues arising from day-to-day to complex transactions and litigious matters

Financial services regulatory: Advises banks and other financial institutions on a broad range of financial services regulations including business conduct requirements, sales and marketing of investment products, risk management compliance, regulatory, anti-money laundering, privacy, anti-corruption, as well as assists on licence applications and other regulatory submissions

Intellectual property: Advises on a broad range of contentious and non-contentious IP matters including patents, copyright, trademarks, trade secrets and confidential information, exploitation of IP rights through securitisation, licensing and franchising agreements, and applications for the registrations of IP rights and IP portfolio management

International arbitration: Handles a broad range of complex domestic and international disputes across various industries, formulating arbitration strategies to help our clients succeed in the most challenging disputes across various industry sectors. Our partners routinely participate as counsel or as arbitrator in high-value arbitrations involving arbitral institutions based in Singapore, Sydney, London, Indian, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Mauritius and Vietnam

Litigation and dispute resolution: Involved in a full range of contentious matters, including banking and finance, corporate matters, company and shareholders’ disputes, employment, insurance, property, fraud, defamation, media and technology, many of which are high profile and landmark cases. Also have extensive experience in alternative dispute resolution, including mediation and negotiation

Restructuring and insolvency: Advises on landmark receiverships, judicial management and schemes of arrangement (a number of which have involved corporations with assets and operations in several countries), and liquidation of companies, both private and public listed

Shipping and commodities: Advises and represents clients in shipping and commodities-related disputes and transactions, and has been involved in a significant number of high profile contentious and non-contentious matters

 Technology, media and telecommunications: Advises on practical and innovative customised solutions in relation to the entire range of TMT work, including commercial contracts, acquisitions, outsourcing, data protection, e-commerce, information management, fintech, media and telecommunications.

Trusts, assets and wealth management: Advises on licensing conditions and exemptions under the Singapore funds and fund management regulations, the establishment of traditional funds, private equity funds, hedge funds and real estate funds, as well as listed REITs and mutual funds; advises on formation of fund management companies, external asset managers, family offices, private trusts and wealth succession structures

International work: The firm has a strong regional practice focusing on the major markets throughout Asia. Its teams of dedicated lawyers have years of experience and are well-versed in local business and the associated cultural nuances. This allows the firm to provide quality and culturally sensitive legal advice to its clients. Together with its close network of Asian firms, the firm is able to offer a one-stop service for investment and financial solutions throughout the region.