Based in the Singapore and Hong Kong offices respectively, senior counsel Sreenivasan Narayanan and Choo Lye Tan jointly lead the Southeast Asia practice at K&L Gates. The team advises on a broad range of matters, including M&A transactions and joint ventures, in addition to banking and finance mandates, with demonstrable experience across the aviation, financial services, energy, life sciences and manufacturing sectors. Based in Singapore, Henry Kim focuses on disputes arising out of commodities, shipping, energy, and power infrastructure projects and is another key contact in the group. Team changes include the departure of James Bradley to Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP in October 2022, and the departure of Lian Yok Tan to Squire Patton Boggs in May 2023.
Key clients
- Asia Pacific Aviation Leasing Group
- JP Lease Products & Services Co. Ltd.
- Liquidators of Ocean Tankers (Pte.) Ltd
- Luye Pharma
- Serba Dinamik Indonesia
- Simmtech Holdings
Work highlights
- Acting for the former Judicial Managers and present Liquidators of OTPL, one of the entities that is involved in one of Singapore’s largest cases of corporate fraud and breaches of accounting regulations by Lim Oon Kuin, one of the shareholders and directors of OTPL.
- Acting for Asia Pacific Aviation Leasing Group in their restructuring of their portfolio of aircraft on lease to various lessees in Asia including the restructuring of aircraft on lease to AirAsia X by way of a scheme of arrangement of its $15bn debt in Malaysian Court.
- Advising the Indonesian joint venture arm of Serba Dinamik on various corporate and financing matters including in particular, cross-border structured financing, including Islamic finance arrangements.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Narayanan Sreenivasan, Choo Lye Tan