Southeast Asia - Singapore

Clifford Chance

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With demonstrable experience across the aviation, oil and gas, telecoms, construction and transport, maritime and shipping sectors, the team at Clifford Chance is well-placed to handle high-profile transactional and contentious mandates in the restructuring and insolvency arena, and is further supported by the firm’s robust banking and finance practice. Key clients include creditors, lenders, coordinating committees, private equity sponsors, insolvency practitioners and debtors. Shaun Langhorne, who boasts a strong track record in cross-border restructuring matters in the Asia Pacific region, jointly leads the team alongside insolvency expert Nish Shetty. Elan Krishna, a partner at Cavenagh Law LLP, the firm’s Formal Law Alliance partner, is another key contact in the group.

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Key clients

  • Aviation Capital, AerCap, Avolon, SMBC, SMFL, DAE Capital, ICBC, NAC and GECAS
  • DAE Capital, AerCap, Avolon and Castlelake
  • Asian Energy Hydro Power Pte. Ltd
  • Wilmington Trust SP Services (Dublin) Limited
  • Xebec Adsorption Inc and Xebec Adsorption Asia Pte. Ltd.

Work highlights

  • Acting on the liquidation of a marine fuel bunker company.

Lawyers

Leading individuals

Shaun Langhorne

Shaun Langhorne

Clifford Chance LLP

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.

Nish Shetty

Nish Shetty

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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.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Nish Shetty, Shaun Langhorne

Other key lawyers

Elan Krishna