Southeast Asia - Singapore

Forbes Hare

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With extensive knowledge of the BVI, Cayman Islands and other Eastern Caribbean jurisdictions laws, the Singapore offshore practice at Forbes Hare has a notably strong contentious offering; consistently covering complex cases concerning commercial, corporate, trust and investment disputes, as well as insolvency issues. Leading this contentious practice is the vastly experienced Sam Robertson, who regularly receives cross-border instructions from top financial institutions, family offices, trustees and insolvency practitioners. Catherine Ross leads the investment funds group, while Patrick Colegrave continues to act for clients located in numerous jurisdictions spanning the US, UK, South Africa and the Middle East.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘Practical, efficient and direct. Provide excellent personal service and response.’

  • ‘We approached Sam Robertson and the team to act for us on a tricky offshore matter and they were able to provide innovative and effective advice in a way that showed deep consideration of the matter at hand as well as on point knowledge of the key legal issues.’

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Key clients

  • Xin Gang Power Investments Ltd
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers (Peter Greaves and Alexander Lower in capacity as liquidators of Ample Source International Limited)

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Work highlights

  • Advised Xin Gang Power Investments Limited in achieving the dismissal of winding up proceedings brought against it in the BVI, whilst concurrently running a related appeal and seeking the stay of new BVI proceedings pending the determination of an arbitration in Hong Kong.
  • Advising PricewaterhouseCoopers as liquidators of Ample Source International Limited with recoveries and other liquidation matters.

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