The Dentons Rodyk shipping practice advises a mix of leading financial institutions, major banks, and shipowners in restructurings and insolvencies, acquisitions, construction matters, and in dispute resolution contexts. The team has also seen an uptick in ESG and environmental-related work as a ‘green’ focus becomes increasingly apparent across the sector. Lawrence Teh who is renowned for his work in commercial and maritime international arbitration matters, co-leads the team alongside asset finance specialist Janice Ngeow and Loh Jen Wei, who handles a range of contentious shipping and admiralty cases.

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Testimonials

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  • 'The team is very well-organised and professional.'
  • 'Janice is the senior partner and she has very vast experience and is good in her domain. She is very attentive and gives the proper advice to clients.'

Key clients

  • Pacific Radiance Ltd.
  • Enemalta P.L.C.
  • Bulk Trident Shipping Ltd
  • Stigma Shipholding Ltd
  • WEM-3 Pte Ltd
  • WEM-4 Pte Ltd
  • WEM-5 Pte Ltd
  • WEM-6 Pte Ltd
  • Pavilion Energy Pte Ltd
  • Navios Maritime Partners L.P.
  • Skaugen
  • Hong Leong Finance Limited
  • Vinmar Overseas (Singapore) Pte Ltd

Work highlights

  • Acted for SGX-listed Pacific Radiance Ltd in its consensual debt restructuring with the ENAV Offshore Mexico S de RL de CV group (ENAV) which involved inter alia the disposal of 33 vessels to ENAV in exchange for consensual discharge of $200m secured indebtedness.
  • Acted for Enemalta P.L.C., a Maltese state-owned entity, which is the sole legal distributor of electricity in Malta. An interconnector linking Malta to Sicily owned by Enemalta was damaged by the vessel “Di Matteo” resulting in a nation-wide power shortage in Malta.
  • Represent Bulk Trident Shipping Ltd, a shipowner whose vessel was arrested in Singapore to obtain security in relation to London arbitration proceedings.

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Lawrence Teh is the Global Co-Head of Dentons' International Arbitration practice and a senior partner in Dentons Rodyk’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice group. He is Co-Head of Dentons Rodyk's International Arbitration and Shipping practice groups. He has particular experience in handling commercial disputes including those of international trade and commodities, maritime and aviation, banking and financial services, onshore and offshore construction, mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and other investments, and insurance. Lawrence advises clients and acts as counsel and appears regularly as lead counsel in the Singapore courts, in arbitration, mediation and other forms of dispute resolution. He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), a fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (SIArb) and is appointed regularly as an arbitrator in international disputes under rules and auspices of international arbitration institutions like the ICC, SIAC, HKIAC, SCMA, KCAB, AIAC, SHIAC and THAC. He is member of the Nominations Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA), the Administrator of the Comité Maritime International (CMI) and a Master of the Bench (Overseas) of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. He is named in numerous legal guides and directories including the Chambers Asia-Pacific, The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific, Who’s Who Legal, Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific, Best Lawyers and Asialaw Leading Lawyers.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Lawrence Teh, Janice Ngeow, Jen Wei Loh