[Webinar] Singapore Insolvency Conference 2021

PLATINUM SPONSORS

Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP

Rajah & Tann Singapore is one of the largest full-service law firms in Singapore and South East Asia. As a member firm of Rajah & Tann Asia, the largest Asian legal network with over 800 fee earners, the firm has been at the leading edge of law in Asia, having worked on many of the biggest and highest profile matters in the region including China, Lao PDR, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Cambodia and Myanmar. The firm’s reach also includes Singapore based regional desks focusing on Brunei, Japan and South Asia. As the Singapore member firm of the Lex Mundi Network, the firm is able to offer clients access to legal support in over 100 countries around the globe.

The Restructuring & Insolvency team at Rajah & Tann Singapore has over 25 lawyers, the largest dedicated legal practice in Singapore dealing with banking and financing disputes, corporate insolvencies and rescues, business advisory, workouts and debt restructurings, and enforcement of creditors’ rights.

The firm is also the highest ranked Asian firm for Global Restructuring & Insolvency, and the only law firm from Singapore to make it to the top 20 in the widely-followed Global Restructuring Review (GRR) annual ranking of 30 leading law firms by practice.

Rajah & Tann Singapore has been involved in almost all the most prominent restructuring and insolvency cases in Singapore’s corporate history, notably, as Singapore counsel for Lehman Brothers and KPMG Singapore in an award-winning deal involving the acquisition of the Lehman Brothers franchise across Asia Pacific; the restructuring of the Nortel group; the liquidation of MF Global; and the restructuring of the Pacific Andes group. In recent years, we have also been involved in judicial management of Hin Leong, the restructuring of Hyflux, Swiber, Asia Pulp and Paper, and Bumi Resources.

RSM Corporate Advisory Pte Ltd

RSM is the sixth largest audit, tax and consulting network globally. In Singapore, we are the largest outside the Big 4, serving internationally active businesses in audit, tax, accounting, business advisory, and corporate secretarial services.

We provide practical business restructuring solutions including corporate reorganisations, debt restructurings, independent business reviews, business turnarounds, and monitoring services as well as formal insolvency procedures, where required.

We have the expertise to undertake the following appointments:

Liquidator / provisional liquidator
Judicial manager / interim judicial manager
Receiver / receiver and manager
Scheme manager / administrator
Receiver of income
Agent for mortgagee-in-possession

We also act as private trustees in bankruptcy as well as assist individuals in restructuring their personal debts and provide solutions to creditors where a debtor’s personal insolvency is imminent, resulting in bankruptcy.

In addition, we offer litigation support and financial forensic investigations to lawyers and clients in potential or pending litigation and investigation of fraudulent or irregular activities.

PLENARY SPONSORS

Allen & Gledhill LLP

Allen & Gledhill is an award-winning full-service South-east Asian law firm providing legal services to a wide range of premier clients, including local and multinational corporations and financial institutions. The Firm is consistently ranked as a market leader in Singapore and South-east Asia, having been involved in a number of challenging, complex and significant deals, many of which are the first of its kind. The Firm’s reputation for high-quality advice is regularly affirmed by the strong rankings in leading publications, and by the various awards and accolades.

Our award winning Restructuring & Insolvency Practice specialises in large-scale multi-jurisdictional work, and is recognised as one of the leading practices in the area. The Practice is recognised as one of the world’s top 100 firms by Global Restructuring Review and is consistently ranked highly in top tier legal publications such as IFLR1000 and Chambers Asia-Pacific. Comprising a team of top lawyers from our disputes, mergers and acquisitions, banking and corporate and other practices, our success comes from the ability to seamlessly integrate the specialist expertise of other top tier practices in our Firm, which enables us to draw on cross-discipline know-how and anticipate issues, think laterally and provide quick and coordinated responses arising from any insolvency issues. This is evident from our history of working on the world’s most complex cross-border insolvencies and restructurings, including many landmark complex restructurings in Singapore and the region such as those relating to Hin Leong, Hyflux, Gibson Guitars, Otto Marine, and Sembawang Engineers and Contractors Pte Ltd.

Our capabilities are further strengthened through our growing network of over 650 lawyers across our regional offices in Singapore, Myanmar and Vietnam, our associate firm in Malaysia (Rahmat Lim & Partners), and our network firm in Indonesia (Soemadipradja & Taher). Working together, our team is afforded unbridled knowledge and understanding of the local and international challenges faced during restructuring and insolvency, and has unparalleled insight of the regional legal landscape and beyond.

Baker McKenzie Wong & Leow

With broad global coverage and comprehensive local knowledge, we offer a unique combination of skills to help our clients effectively manage the challenges and opportunities of doing business in Singapore and the rest of Asia. Baker McKenzie Wong & Leow is a joint law venture between Baker McKenzie and Wong & Leow LLC, a Singapore law firm. This enables us to advise our clients on both domestic Singapore law issues and cross-border issues.

As counsel of choice to many companies using Singapore as a hub for their regional operations, our lawyers are adept at managing multi-jurisdictional transactions and neutralizing cross-border risk. Our Singapore office is part of a network that offers experts based on the ground across ASEAN countries as well as access to Baker McKenzie’s wider international network. This makes us ideally placed to support not only the domestic but also the cross-border needs of our clients.

BlackOak LLC

BlackOak is Singapore’s first dedicated distress and special situations practice, founded in April 2016. In the short years since incorporation, BlackOak has made tremendous progress and has even established itself as one of Singapore’s leading CRI law firms. We handle both contentious and non-contentious aspects of the practice, with capabilities including Mergers & Acquisitions, Capital Markets, Banking and Finance, and Dispute Resolution in the context of distress and special situations. The team is particularly known for its focus on clients, its strong understanding of commercial issues and its ability to come up with innovative, technically-sound and commercially practical solutions.

In the six years of its existence, the firm has acted in many of the landmark high-value debt restructuring exercises as well as insolvency-related litigations across jurisdictions. The firm, apart from being involved in most significant Singapore deals is also very active in the regional CRI landscape and regularly advises in distressed company and special situations in Indonesia, Malaysia, India and Hong Kong. The deals BlackOak has advised on include the restructuring of the Duniatex Group, Hyflux Ltd, Agritrade, Hin Leong Group, Noble, Berau Coal, China Fishery, Bakrieland Development, Blue Ocean Resources, Nam Cheong, I.M. Skaugen, Mongolian Mining, Century Sunshine, Suntec Group, Wirecard, oCap Management and Kreuz Subsea. The firm is also active in India on matters before the NCLT, such as the Uttam Galva and Uttam Value restructuring, which has been shortlisted as private equity deal of the year in IFLR.

BlackOak is also known to be at the forefront of the development of the law in restructuring and insolvency. The firm is an active participant in thought leadership with the Singapore Academy of Law, INSOL International, the International Insolvency Institute, the Turnaround Management Association, etc. The team’s abilities have been consistently recognized in various reputable ranking publications over the years.

Deloitte & Touche Financial Advisory Services Pte Ltd

Deloitte is a market leader for Turnaround & Restructuring in Asia. We have invested in building a best in class team with 7 expert Turnaround & Restructuring partners across Southeast Asia who are able to draw on the firm’s global expertise and network to deliver the right result.

We work with businesses to improve value outcomes across the spectrum ranging from companies seeking to turnaround short-term under-performance to those in deep financial distress requiring crisis management. We are actively helping businesses in Southeast Asia to turnaround, restructure, transform and grow their businesses and to respond to the financial impact of Covid-19.

Drew & Napier LLC

Drew & Napier is one of the largest full service law firms in Singapore with multiple award winning practice groups. Our Dispute Resolution practice has been consistently singled out as unparalleled, achieving top tier rankings in prestigious international publications for over a decade. Our International Arbitration Practice has been similarly identified among the world’s top 100 practices by the Global Arbitration Review since 2010. We have also been consistently recognised as market leaders in the areas of Competition & Antitrust, Corporate Insolvency & Restructuring, Intellectual Property (Patents and Trade Marks), Tax, Telecommunications, Media & Technology, Mergers & Acquisitions, Banking & Finance, and Capital Markets.

Our Corporate Restructuring & Workouts Practice and its key members have been consistently ranked as industry leaders by international independent research houses and publications. Most recently in 2020, Global Restructuring Review has recognised us as one of the world’s top 30 restructuring practices. This is the third consecutive year we have been featured in the Global Restructuring Review’s top 30 rankings.

With over 30 lawyers, our Corporate Restructuring & Workouts team is one of the largest dedicated restructuring practices in the country. Our lawyers have a diverse skill set, spanning dispute resolution, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, and finance. This equips us to deal with the complex issues that arise in workouts, the rehabilitation process and solvent reorganisations. Our experience includes the divestment of non-core assets, distressed mergers and acquisitions, and debt trading under LMA rules. The firm’s unparalleled strength in litigation also means our clients are represented by some of the most formidable advocates in Asia.

The team has a particularly strong reputation for representing debtor companies. We believe that a key element to advising debtor companies is the willingness to expend time truly understanding the client’s business and the ability to successfully negotiate with all creditors in order to achieve a consensual outcome that benefits all parties – our clients, its bankers, as well as its trade creditors.

The Corporate Restructuring & Workouts Practice also stands out for its regional focus and cross-border capabilities, having been involved in various major workouts in Indonesia and on restructurings under the United States Bankruptcy Code including exchange offers, liquidations, and restructurings under Chapters 7, 11, and 15.

The firm has recently joined hands with other dominant law firms in Southeast Asia - Makarim & Taira S from Indonesia and Shearn Delamore & Co from Malaysia to form a formidable blue chip legal network – Drew Network Asia (DNA). With 450 fee earners, including 140 partners, we operate as a regional ‘one-stop shop‘ in handling the most complex and time-sensitive multi-jurisdictional transactions and disputes, and ensure that our clients are seamlessly serviced in multiple jurisdictions.

FTI Consulting

FTI Consulting is an independent global business advisory firm dedicated to helping organisations manage change, mitigate risk and resolve disputes: financial, legal, operational, political & regulatory, reputational and transactional. Individually, each practice is a leader in its specific field, staffed with experts recognized for the depth of their knowledge and a track record of making an impact. Collectively, FTI Consulting offers a comprehensive suite of services designed to assist clients across the business cycle – from proactive risk management to the ability to respond rapidly to unexpected events and dynamic environments.

Tan Kok Quan Partnership

TKQP has a wealth of experience in handling a broad and diverse spectrum of cases. Over the years, it has earned a stellar reputation for the quality of its work so much so that its reputation speaks for itself.

Its lawyers, with varied social, ethnic and cultural backgrounds, are imbued with the same service ethic that places clients and their needs first – delivering a consistently high standard of service with a sound knowledge of local business practices.

The firm’s principal founder and first managing partner was Tan Kok Quan, Senior Counsel, a well-respected litigator who was among the first batch of lawyers to be appointed senior counsel in Singapore. From 2007 to early 2015, the firm was helmed by Kannan Ramesh, Senior Counsel, the first senior counsel to be groomed from within the firm and under whose stewardship, the firm grew to become one of the leading legal practices in Singapore. Today, the firm continues to have a reputation for top-quality legal services and frequently garner plaudits from clients and leading independent legal directories.

WongPartnership LLP

Headquartered in Singapore, WongPartnership is an award-winning law firm and one of the largest in the country. As a leading provider of legal services, we offer our clients access to our offices in China and Myanmar, and in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, through the member firms of WPG, a regional law network. Together, WPG offers the expertise of over 400 professionals to meet the needs of our clients throughout the region.

CONFERENCE SPONSORS

Alvarez & Marsal (SE Asia) Pte Ltd

Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) delivers performance improvement, turnaround management, restructuring and business advisory services to help you transform operations, catapult growth and accelerate results through decisive action. Leading companies, financial institutions and public entities turn to A&M to solve their operational, financial and regulatory challenges and to provide turnaround management solutions that work.

Our world-class professionals in Singapore have deep operational experience and serve as trusted partners, helping clients solve for continuity- and growth-related business issues. A&M’s 360-degree, hands-on approach to problem-solving drives the critical changes required to optimize performance and maximize value.

OUR EXPERTISE:

Performance Improvement

We partner with companies to drive significant, sustainable business performance improvement across their operations to improve their profitability.

Turnaround and Restructuring

We collaborate with company management and stakeholders and serve in interim roles as needed. We stabilize financial and operational performance with comprehensive profit improvement and working capital plans. Our involvement reassures creditors and investors of our clients' intentions to address problems and maximize value.

Interim Management

We fill interim and crisis management roles to help guide companies through periods of distress or change. We provide valuable support to stabilizing business, filling key leadership gaps and accelerating improvement initiatives.

Private Equity Services

Our differentiated approach helps you improve portfolio performance and manage funds more effectively. We provide financial, tax, operational, commercial and integrity due diligence and develop and implement post-investment plans.

Disputes and Investigations

We are trusted partners who help you manage complex compliance, business intelligence, anti-corruption, disputes and forensic technology issues.

Creditor and Debtor Advisory

We advise lenders as well as corporates on debt restructuring, including financial modeling, negotiating with lenders, the recapitalization of existing debt, and locating trade and financial buyers for strategic debt restructuring-led exits.

Evercore Asia (Singapore) Pte Ltd

Evercore is a premier global independent investment banking advisory firm. We are dedicated to helping our clients achieve superior results through trusted independent and innovative advice on matters of strategic significance to boards of directors, management teams, and shareholders - including mergers and acquisitions, strategic shareholder advisory, restructurings, and capital structure. Evercore also assists clients in raising public, private capital, delivers equity research, equity sales and agency trading execution, in addition to providing wealth and investment management services to high net worth individuals. Founded in 1995, the Firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices and affiliate offices in major financial centres in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

KordaMentha Pte Ltd

KordaMentha is an advisory and investment firm that helps clients to grow, protect and recover value.

We have a team of almost 400 specialists across Asia-Pacific with diverse backgrounds – in finance and real estate through to agriculture, law enforcement and the c-suite. Specialists who work together to solve the complex challenges facing corporations, financiers, lawyers, private investors and government.

Since 2002, our experts in forensics, real estate, consulting and restructuring have been entrusted with the region’s most sensitive commercial matters. On each occasion, they have responded with a bold, impactful solution that delivered the best possible result for all stakeholders.

In particular, KordaMentha Restructuring works with companies in financial distress – restructuring and stabilising the business or recovering value on behalf of stakeholders. We specialise in independent business reviews, restructuring and turnaround advise and formal appointments including receiverships, judicial management and liquidation engagements having been engaged on high profile matters including the Robinsons Department Stores, oCap Management (linked to Wirecard), Parakou Shipping and Duniatex. Our team in Jakarta is regularly engaged in PKPU advisory and restructuring matters on behalf of companies and creditors.

We also utilise our forensic capabilities in restructuring engagements, having one of the largest teams of forensic investigators, forensic accountants and forensic technology specialists in Asia Pacific.

For more details on our sponsorship package, please click here to download.

If you will like to explore sponsorship opportunities with us, please contact the Conference Secretariat - Charlotte Chang at cpd@lawsoc.org.sg / +65 6530 0255.