The Singapore offshore practice at Harney Westwood & Riegels Singapore LLP is noted for its considerable breadth of expertise offered to both domestic and international clients, with specialists across corporate and finance funds, private wealth and trusts, restructuring and insolvency, regulatory work, and arbitration and litigation. The team has carved out a strong reputation for its skill in the crypto, blockchain and digital assets space, regularly advising on complex liquidations of funds and entities invested in digital assets. Managing partner Lishi Fong heads up the transactional offering, with her financial expertise including such areas as acquisition, pre-IPO, trade and property finance. Nicola Roberts leads the litigation, insolvency and restructuring team, having established a strong track-record handling complex cross-border litigation in the Cayman Islands, BVI, and Bermuda. Jayesh Chatlani was promoted to partner in January 2023 and specialises in multi-jurisdictional shareholder disputes, funds litigation and valuation disputes involving private ventures and listed companies.
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
‘Exceptional commercial acumen.’
‘Lishi Fong is pragmatic, succinct and excellent at her work.’
Key clients
- Creditors of Three Arrows Capital
- OpenEden
Work highlights
- Acted for creditors in liquidation proceedings against the Singapore-based cryptocurrency hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC) which filed for bankruptcy in the BVI.
- Acted as Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands counsel to the lender in relation to 3 cross-collateralised facility agreements provided to related entities of the Salim Group for an aggregate commitment of US$1.4 billion in connection with the acquisition of up to 200 billion Series C shares in PT Bumi Resources Tbk.