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Shook Lin & Bok LLP

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Shook Lin & Bok LLP’s well-established practice advises on the full range of matters, from distressed M&A, divestment of assets and debt restructurings to liquidations, bankruptcies, receiverships, judicial management and schemes of arrangement. Noted for its cross-border capability, the multi-disciplinary team has demonstrable experience advising lenders and creditors, and is well-placed to draw on the expertise of other departments in the firm. Highly-regarded Sarjit Singh Gill, SC jointly leads the team alongside David Chan, who stands out for his experience in domestic and cross-border insolvencies. ‘Fantastic operator’ Daniel Tan is another key contact in the group.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘Quick turnaround times and able to provide sound advice.’

  • ‘Daniel Tan’s acumen facilitates a smooth and understandable journey for international financial institutions and multinationals, concurrently managing expectations and delivering welcome results.’

  • ‘A well-coordinated team with a great sense of commercial imperatives that drive clients. Collaborate well with foreign counsel on large cross-border work.’

  • ‘Daniel Tan is a fantastic operator and thinks outside the box.’

  • ‘The Shook Lin & Bok team was able to get up to speed very quickly on a complex cross-border matter, so collaboration with them has been seamless. They are also very responsive.’

  • ‘Shook Lin & Bok is a well-regarded R&I team. They have strong bench strength with a good mix of experienced lawyers and up and comers.'

  • ‘Offers sound and strategic advice, as well as being commercially minded.’

  • ‘Daniel Tan is exceptionally good at what he does ; he is always responsive and provides practical and workable advice.’

Key clients

  • Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited
  • Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited
  • Gulf Petrochem FZC / GP Global
  • KPMG
  • Deloitte
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers
  • DBS
  • Maybank
  • FTI Consulting
  • Industrial Bank of Korea

Work highlights

  • Acting for the liquidators of the Envy Companies in the Suit brought against the former directors and/or representatives of the Envy Companies to recover unauthorised/fraudulent transactions made out of investors' funds.
  • Advising the joint and bankruptcy trustees of Ng Yu Zhi, KPMG and Reliance Audit, on all aspects of the bankruptcy, following the bankruptcy order obtained by liquidators of the Envy Companies.
  • Acting for the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the single largest creditor of Hin Leong Trading, in the collapse of the Hin Leong group of companies.

Lawyers

Hall of Fame

The lawyers at the very top of the profession, widely known and respected by peers and clients for their longstanding involvement in market-leading work.

David Chan

Hall of fameShook Lin & Bok LLP

David Chan has been a Partner of Shook Lin & Bok since 2004. He has wide experience in general commercial litigation with particular focus on domestic and cross-border finance-related litigation, fraud and insolvency matters. He is also involved in international commercial arbitrations and corporate and shareholders' disputes. David is a member of the Complaints and Disciplinary Panel of the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority. He was a former member of the Valuation Review Board under the Ministry of Finance, Singapore and former legal assessor to the Singapore Medical Council.

Leading individuals

Sarjit Singh Gill, SC

Sarjit Singh Gill, SC

Shook Lin & Bok LLP

Sarjit Singh Gill has extensive experience in a broad range of litigation and arbitration matters, with a special focus on corporate and commercial disputes, banking-related disputes, shareholders’ disputes, professional negligence and fraud. He also has an active international arbitration practice, having been involved in a significant number of complex arbitrations in Singapore and abroad. Notably, Sarjit has acted both for and against Indian parties in international arbitration matters. With more than 40 years of experience, Sarjit is also involved in many domestic and cross-border restructuring and insolvency matters, some of which are significant and high profile in nature. His clients include insolvency practitioners (liquidators, judicial managers, administrators, etc), accounting firms, financial institutions and non-bank creditors. Sarjit is a board member of the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore and the Urban Redevelopment Authority, non-executive director of Heliconia Capital Management Pte Ltd and has served on the Board of the Central Provident Fund from 2012 to 2018. He is a member of the Life Imprisonment Review Board, The President's Pleasure Review Board, Long Imprisonment Review Board and MAS Appeal Advisory Panel. He has also been appointed to serve as a member of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) Panel of Arbitrators and has served as a member of the Singapore International Mediation Centre Specialist Mediator Panel (Singapore) from 2020 to 2022.

Next Generation Partners

Daniel Tan

Shook Lin & Bok LLP

Daniel Tan’s main areas of practice are banking & financial disputes, with a particular focus on cross-border restructuring and insolvency. He regularly advises and represents corporate debtors, institutional creditors and turnaround professionals in special situations. His practice also encompasses shareholders’ disputes, corporate fraud, asset recovery and investigations. Daniel is a regular tutor for the insolvency and professional skills modules and an advocacy trainer in the preparatory course for the Singapore Bar Examinations run by the Singapore Institute of Legal Education.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Sarjit Singh Gill, SC, David Chan

Other key lawyers

Daniel Tan, Ng Yeow Khoon