Andrew Hutchins covers a wide range of bank lending areas, including syndicated lending, cross border leveraged transactions, acquisition finance, funds financing, structured lending and financing the acquisition of non performing loan portfolios.
Daryl Liu is a Clifford Chance partner with over 15 years of experience across private funds. He co-leads the Singapore Funds & Investment Management group and his practice focuses on international fund mandates across private equity, real estate, infrastructure, credit and venture capital strategies. He represents leading global and regional sponsors and financial investors on primary fundraisings, fund secondaries and restructurings, fund investments, co-investments and advisory mandates in Asia and elsewhere.
Fergus Evans is a partner in Clifford Chance's aviation finance and leasing practice and has extensive experience in various types of financings, including asset and structured finance (including tax leasing), syndicated lending, export credit agency backed financing, debt trading and restructuring. He also heads both the Thailand focus group for the firm, having been Office Managing Partner of our Bangkok office for 12 years, and our Vietnam focus group. Fergus is currently based in Singapore and has worked in several offices for Clifford Chance, including in London, Hanoi, Hong Kong and Bangkok.
Gareth Deiner is an English and New York qualified lawyer whose practice covers debt and equity capital markets transactions across the South and Southeast Asian region. Gareth advises sovereign and corporate issuers, private equity sponsors, financial investors, real estate investment trusts and investment banks on their most complex and strategic capital markets transactions and capital reorganisations. He is also a noted expert on ESG-related solutions and sustainable finance transactions, having advised on numerous award-winning and market-first transactions, particularly in the energy and infrastructure sector.
*Cavenagh Law LLP and Clifford Chance Pte Ltd are registered in a Formal Law Alliance under the name Clifford Chance Asia. Janice specialises in commercial dispute resolution with particular emphasis on contentious financial regulatory and corporate investigations and enforcement, regulatory compliance matters and white collar crime including market misconduct and anti-bribery. Janice has advised on some of the most complex and high-profile cross-jurisdictional regulatory investigations in recent years, including the LIBOR/FX benchmark investigations and anti-money laundering investigations in relation to the 1MDB scandal. Janice also advises regularly on employment law, and is particularly experienced in dealing with employment issues in the context of investigations. Janice has been recognised by the Singapore Business Review as one of "Singapore's most influential lawyers aged 40 and under". Janice practised in Hong Kong with Clifford Chance before moving to Singapore.
Kabir Singh is a partner in the International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution practice of Clifford Chance. He specialises in complex, cross border disputes with a focus on India and Southeast Asia. His clients include large multinational corporations, international banks and financial institutions across APAC. His practice focuses on international arbitration, regulatory investigations and contentious employment disputes. He has acted as counsel on numerous international arbitrations under the rules of ICC, SIAC, LCIA, HKIAC and AAA. Kabir has been appointed as an alternate member of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce for a three-year term.
Kai Schneider is the head of the firm's Funds and Investment Management group in Singapore. He is a US qualified lawyer with over 20 years of specialist experience in the funds sector and advises clients on the formation of a wide variety of private equity funds, real estate funds, infrastructure funds and credit funds. He also counsels clients on co-investments, secondaries and spin outs. Kai is co-chair of the Executive Committee of the Singapore Funds Industry Group and a member of the Advocacy Subcommittee of the Singapore Venture & Private Capital Association (SVCA).
Luke Chen is a Counsel in the Singapore office and a member of the APAC Asset Management and Financial Regulatory Group. Luke assists clients with the formation and offering of investment funds and the regulation of investment managers. He advises fund managers and financial institutions on licensing and ongoing compliance requirements, and on the ongoing obligations for funds offered in Singapore. He is also involved in advising on the regulatory aspects of mergers and acquisitions.
Miles Binney has extensive international experience in derivatives and financial markets products. He is also a key contributor to the firm's international FinTech capabilities. His expertise across a broad range of asset classes, transaction types and jurisdictions offers a unique and highly valued package. Miles regularly advises on global and local financial regulatory developments and financial market infrastructure. Miles also has extensive experience in FinTech, with a particular interest in blockchain and crypto products. He regularly advises leading DLT technology firms, crypto derivative exchanges and other innovative businesses on global regulatory, trading and product development related matters. He has worked in our London and Singapore offices. He has spent time in-house in leading financial institutions, including client secondments in London to Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley and Man Group, as well completing an international secondment to Zurich.
Nicholas Wong is the firm's Global Clients, Markets and Products Partner and has over 20 years’ experience advising on project development and financing. Nick acts for sponsors, investors, banks, export credit agencies, multilateral financial institutions and governments on the structuring, development and financing of major energy, oil and gas, infrastructure and mining developments in APAC, Europe, Turkey, Russia and the CIS, Middle East and Africa.
Nish is Head of Clifford Chance's International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution practice in APAC. He is recognised as one of the leading arbitration practitioners in Asia and has advised on many complex cross-jurisdictional disputes for 27 years. Nish is on the arbitrators panel of most of the key arbitral institutions. He is the founder and ex-chairman of the SIAC’s Users Council; the Co-Chair of the Council of Arbitration of MCIA and the first in Asia to be appointed as a Judge of Appeal on the FIA International Court of Appeal in Paris. Nish is qualified in Singapore, England & Wales.
Paul Sandosham is Managing Partner of Cavenagh Law LLP*, and heads the Energy, Infrastructure and Resources (Disputes) practice for Southeast Asia. He focuses on dispute resolution in the energy, power, oil & gas, infrastructure, construction, engineering, rail, utilities, natural resources and commodities sectors. Paul acts as counsel in court and international arbitration proceedings for various parties in disputes arising out of complex cross-border disputes and projects. Paul is a qualified Chartered Arbitrator and a fellow of CIArb and SIArb. * Clifford Chance Asia is a Formal Law Alliance in Singapore between Clifford Chance Pte Ltd and Cavenagh Law LLP
Paul Landless is a financial markets lawyer specialising in structured finance, derivatives and financial markets products, including securitisations, repackagings, structured notes, securities lending and repo. He leads the financial markets team in Singapore and South East Asia. Paul has extensive experience in commodities trading and financing, structured trade finance, carbon markets products and exchanges. He regularly advises on global and local financial regulatory developments and financial market infrastructure. Also, Paul is one of the leaders of the firm's Fintech practice and a member of the Panel of Recognized International Market Experts in Finance Foundation (PRIME) based in the Hague.
Ross Howard is a partner in Clifford Chance's Global Financial Markets Team and a member of the firm's Worldwide Projects Group and Energy and Natural Resources, Transportation and Infrastructure Sector Groups. Ross specialises in advising sponsors and lenders in connection with the development and financing of complex and large-scale projects in the renewable energy, power, oil and gas, natural resources and infrastructure sectors. He has extensive experience advising on the structuring, negotiation and financing of large-scale international projects across Asia Pacific, Africa and Europe. Ross is currently based in Singapore.
Shaun is a partner in Clifford Chance's Singapore office and is a recognised leader in the field of cross border restructuring. Shaun has been at the forefront of many of the high profile and cutting edge restructuring transactions over that time. Shaun acts for funds, private equity sponsors, sovereigns, corporates, banks, investment banks and other stakeholders in all manner of contentious and non-contentious transactions. Prior to joining Clifford Chance he worked at a global law firm where he started the Singapore restructuring practice. Shaun is a fellow of INSOL and is admitted to practice in Hong Kong and Victoria, Australia.
Stella Cramer is the APAC Head of Clifford Chance Tech Group and a technology and data lawyer based in Singapore. Stella advises on technology matters across the Asia Pacific region. She specialises in complex digital and transformational technology projects, platform collaborations, and technology transactions, often involving disruptive technologies such as blockchain and artificial intelligence. She has deep experience advising clients on global data compliance programmes, the commercialisation of data and high-profile cyber incidents. She leads high profile cyberbreach response for clients, coordinating the management of an incident and leading the regulatory investigations across multiple jurisdictions, working closely with senior management. She also advises on significant Fintech projects and was involved in the establishment of industry sandboxes in Singapore.
Thomas England has more than 15 years of experience advising financial investors, financial institutions and corporate clients on finance and restructuring transactions across Asia-Pacific. Thomas specialises in complex financing and restructuring transactions across a broad range of products including acquisition finance (including portfolio acquisitions and disposals); restructuring transactions; energy and resources financings (including reserve-based lending); asset-backed financings and other trade finance; direct lending, real estate financing, funds financing, margin lending and other structured finance, as well as syndicated lending. Tom has a broad exposure to a number of jurisdictions in the region, with a particular focus on India and Indonesia.
Tom Lin specialises in M&A and corporate finance with a particular focus on private equity transactions. Tom advises private equity houses, other financial investors and corporates on a wide range of matters, including buyouts, secondaries, joint ventures, MBOs, minority and co-investments, public M&A, management incentives and restructurings. His experience covers healthcare, financial services, infrastructure, renewables, consumer, education, industrials, logistics and real estate. He has been based in Singapore since 2011 and previously served as in-house counsel at the private equity arm of an international financial institution.
Valerie Kong is Clifford Chance's Office Managing Partner in Singapore and also sits on the firm’s Asia Pacific Leadership Group. She specialises in cross-border M&A and is qualified in both Singapore and England & Wales. Well regarded among market sources for complex acquisitions, divestments and joint ventures, she has over 20 years of experience advising financial investors and multinational corporates on transactions in the consumer goods & retail, energy and transport & logistics sectors across South East Asia and other emerging markets. Part of her practice includes advising underwriters on W&I insurance policies for M&A transactions.
Ying Chiang Chong specialises in debt and equity capital markets transactions for companies and real estate investment trusts in Singapore and across South East Asia, and is a member of the Global Financial Markets group. Ying Chiang has extensive experience in international debt and equity capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings, high yield debt issues and tender offers and has executed transactions across a broad range of sectors throughout South East Asia. She is recognised by Chambers Asia as an Up and Coming lawyer and by the Legal 500 Asia Pacific as a Rising Star in the domestic and foreign firms categories, respectively. Ying Chiang is an active supporter of diversity and inclusion, and is a founding member of the Clifford Chance Singapore women's network.