The firm offers specialist advice on the sale and purchase of ships, ship and aircraft leasing and financing, ship registration, ship mortgage registration and the drafting and negotiating of bank loan documentation. Our work encompasses:-

• Bilateral and syndicated vessel loan financing
• Trade financing
• Vessel sale and purchase
• Vessel sale and leaseback
• Registration of ship mortgages in Singapore and with foreign registries
• Registration of charges with the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority of Singpaore
• Vessel due diligence excercises

We also advice on a wide variety of loans and other debt-related instruments and transactions, locally and internationally, including term loan facility, revolving facility and multi-currency facilities.

The practice of advocacy is the keystone of the Firm. Whether via arbitration or court proceedings, the Firm's Partners are regularly instructed to act in commercial disputes of the following nature:

• Debt recovery
• Shareholder and Director disputes
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Joint Ventures
• Employment and Consultancy
• Construction
• Partnership disputes
• Insolvency
• Landlord & Tenancy

Currently, the Firm is mainly involved in the rendering of advice, whether contentious or non-contentious, in connection with the exploration and production of oil and gas and has acted for, among others, owners of offshore/onshore drilling platforms and suppliers of specialist oilfield services and equipment.

The Firm has recently entered into a strategic alliance with an established Dubai based energy practice, Hugh Fraser International (www.hfi-international.com). With the aid of this alliance, the Firm is in a position to provide specialist advice to clients in the energy sector, with the aim of providing efficient and cost effective services within the region and beyond.

The Firm handles all areas of general corporate work with distinction and regularly receives instructions from a wide diversity of clients including increasingly, overseas clients intending to establish business activities in Singapore.

Our scope of services includes:

• Incorporation of business entities and the structuring thereof
• Employment and Consultancy contracts
• Shareholder agreements
• Drafting of bespoke contracts for clients' operations
• Non-disclosure agreements
• Loan agreements
• Corporate secretarial services
• Joint ventures
• Mergers & Acquisitions

The Firm has expertise in a wide variety of work in relation to shipping and international trade and regularly acts for shipyards, ship owners, ship agents and managers, bunker suppliers, insurers, cargo owners, financial institutions and commodities traders in both contentious and non contentious matters.

Areas of practice include:

• Shipbuilding, Conversion and Repair
• Marine Casualties
• Charterparties And Bill of Lading Disputes
• Cargo Claims
• Oil Shipment, Trading and Connected Disputes
• Marine Insurance
• Ship Finance & Corporate / Transactional Shipping Matters
• Trade Finance And Sale of Goods Disputes
• Mortgage Enforcement and Ship Finance Disputes

Led by Navinder Singh, the Firm undertakes a wide spectrum of work relating to the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights as well as transactions involving information technology.

Our work covers both contentious and non-contentious matters, and includes the following:

• Conduct of legal proceedings relating to infringement of trade marks, patents, designs and copyright, passing off, breach of confidentiality and trade secrets; protection of intellectual property rights, including urgent injunctions and search and seizure orders.
• Computer, information technology and telecommunications transactions including establishment of electronic data interchange networks, procurement and supply of integrated computer systems, hardware and software licensing.