Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP

Head, Restructuring & Insolvency

Kwan Kiat is a partner at Rajah & Tann Singapore and heads the restructuring and insolvency practice group, the largest dedicated practice in this area in Singapore. His practice comprises disputes and advisory work, advising lenders and accounting firms in both domestic and cross-border disputes, and he has acted in various banking disputes, liquidations, receiverships and debt restructuring of local and foreign companies.

Kwan Kiat is consistently recognised as a market leading practitioner for his expertise by global legal directories, including Chambers Asia Pacific, Benchmark Litigation, Legal 500 and Who's Who Legal. He is described as “top notched in the R&I field, very strong technically but also commercial.”

In addition, Kwan Kiat is part of the expert group involved in the ongoing work in UNCITRAL Working Group V (Insolvency Law) on applicable law in insolvency proceedings, and has been appointed by the Singapore Ministry of Law to be the Singapore national correspondent for UNCITRAL CLOUT (Case Law on UNCITRAL Texts).