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Cherrin Wong

+65 8129 3260 cherrin.wong@maples.com View profile

Work Department

Dispute Resolution & Insolvency

Position

Cherrin is Of Counsel in Maples and Calder’s Dispute Resolution & Insolvency team in the Maples Group’s Singapore office. She has over a decade of experience in commercial litigation and dispute resolution and is qualified in Singapore, England & Wales and the British Virgin Islands. She specialises in cross-border shareholder and partnership disputes, take-private fair value appraisal litigation, and insolvency related disputes. She regularly advises on issues concerning shareholder remedies and derivative claims, interim applications in aid of foreign proceedings including worldwide freezing injunctions, and the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards.

Cherrin also has experience advising on contentious fund and corporate matters including breaches of constitutional documents, shareholder and subscription agreements, suspension of redemption requests and other contentious issues at board or shareholder meetings.

Career

Cherrin joined Maples and Calder in 2017. Prior to that, she was a senior associate at a top tier disputes law firm in Singapore where she regularly attended court and worked alongside senior counsels on complex, bilingual litigation and arbitrations, and other senior partners on multi-jurisdictional advisory work on regulatory matters. Apart from complex commercial litigation, Cherrin has a keen interest in international arbitration and is an accredited member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb).

Languages

English and Mandarin

Memberships

Member of the International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC)

Member of the International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency & Bankruptcy Professionals (INSOL)

Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb)

Member of the Women in Arbitration (WIA)

2012 – Admitted as an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Singapore (not practising)

2023 – Admitted as a solicitor of the Senior Courts of England Wales (not practising)

Education

Singapore Management University, LLB, 2011