Singapore

Firm overview

Established in 2010 and rebranded in 2022 as a boutique Singapore law firm, Blackletter is a specialist financial services law firm offering services shaped and built around our client’s needs. Our name reflects our commitment to modernising and embracing a forward-thinking approach to the practice of law, and our goal is to continually innovate the client experience, consistently seek new ways to engage clients in an authentic, memorable and personal manner, and reshape and reinvent the practice of law. We do not aim to be all things to all clients. Rather, we grow thoughtfully to provide the depth and breadth of services our clients need.

Under the leadership of Gerard Ng, together with Kim Kit, Ow and Teck Chai, Yap, our clients are assured of support from a team of five additional lawyers who are ready to assist. Our firm and lawyers have been ranked by IFLR, Chambers Asia-Pacific, and Legal500 Asia-Pacific in 2022, 2023, and 2024 for our Banking and Finance Practice.

Art: We advise clients on a range of legal issues that arise from ownership and disposal of artworks, including taking of security over artworks and conducting due diligence in art transactions.

Banking and Finance: We cover a broad array of banking transactions, including general bank lending, syndicated lending, structured finance, asset finance, and leveraged finance. Our services include assisting with ESG-linked financing, secured senior debt, venture debt facility, acquisition finance, refinancing of existing loans, and cross-border financing transactions.

Capital Markets: We specialise in a diverse range of financial products and services, encompassing equity and debt products, derivatives, and securitisation. Our services include providing regulatory and transactional legal advice on derivatives products (exchange-traded and OTC) such as currency, equity, interest rate, and structured products, as well as advising on securitisation structure in asset-backed transactions.

Financial Services Regulation: We assist with non-contentious regulatory matters that may emerge in the financial services industry and guide you through the ever evolving and complex regulatory environment. Our services include helping clients comply with a wide range of financial services laws and regulations in their daily operations, as well as assisting them in navigating the licensing requirements mandated by the regulatory regimes.
FinTech: We cover a wide spectrum of FinTech services spanning corporate, stable coins, NFTs, cryptocurrencies (including payment tokens), lending, and payment systems. Our services extend to tokenised capital raising, crowdfunding, crypto products, digital assets, e-payment systems, regulatory affairs, and lending platforms.

Investment Funds: We cover the entire life cycle of a fund, offering a comprehensive range of services to the investment management sector across various areas. Our services include structuring and establishing a diverse range of offshore and onshore investment funds using various fund vehicles, facilitating the setup and licensing of fund management companies, providing regulatory advice, supporting the marketing of investment funds, advising on investments in fund products, and assisting with fund offerings.

Private Client: We cover corporate structuring and transactional work for family businesses and closely held companies owned by ultra-high net worth Individuals, as well as family office set-ups and structures.

Financial Regulation: We support clients operating in the financial services industry such as asset managers, banks, brokers, e-money issuers, funds, payment service providers, and trustees. We assist them in complying with financial services laws, business conduct rules, and market rules in their daily operations, governance, and transactions.

Firm overview

PK Wong & Nair is a premier, full-service law corporation with roots going back more than 30 years. Since its founding, the firm has represented a diverse range of clients dealing with matters at all levels of legal complexity. The firm has earned considerable accolades, with clients recognising it for providing “practical and commercial solutions… with exceptional client care” (AsiaLaw 2022), being a “first stop because they are… excellent at what they do and always on top of their game” and being “super-responsive and committed… always personable and a pleasure to work with” (IFLR1000 2022). PK Wong & Nair’s client base includes individuals, small businesses, large multinational corporations, and financial institutions.

Our dynamic team of lawyers are capable of working in cross-disciplinary teams to ensure that every client receives comprehensive and fully integrated service.

Our lawyers possess a global mindset. We have worked on a wide range of cross-border and international transactions, including mergers and acquisitions for multinational corporations, and have acted as counsel in multi-jurisdictional disputes and high-value and complex international restructuring and insolvency matters.

On 1 January 2023, PK Wong & Nair officially launched its joint law venture with Mayer Brown. The joint law venture offers clients an integrated service, offering seamless advice on international and Singapore law, with all Singapore court litigation and related advice provided through PK Wong & Nair

Firm overview

Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP is one of the largest full-service law firms in Singapore with over 430 fee earners, providing a vast pool of talented and well-regarded lawyers dedicated to delivering the highest standards of service across all our practice areas.

Our strategic alliances with leading local firms across South East Asia led to the launch in 2014 of Rajah & Tann Asia, a network of over 1,000 fee earners. Through Rajah & Tann Asia, we have the reach and the resources to deliver excellent service to clients in the region, including Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. Our geographical reach also includes Singapore-based regional desks focusing on Brunei, Japan and South Asia. Further, as the Singapore member firm of the Lex Mundi Network, we are able to offer our clients access to excellent legal support in more than 125 countries around the globe.

Firm overview

Dentons Rodyk is Singapore’s global law firm and offers clients a full suite of legal services necessary to do business locally and globally. With over 160 years of establishment and consistent high rankings in leading publications, we pride ourselves on providing the highest quality advice to our clients, while maintaining strong working relationships with key public sector agencies and leading private sector organisations. Our combination with global law firm Dentons, makes us part of the world’s largest law firm with 5,900 lawyers and professionals in over 160 locations in more than 80 countries.

Deeply local, uniquely global, Dentons Rodyk can help clients grow, protect, operate and finance their business. Our polycentric and purpose-driven approach, together with our commitment to inclusion, diversity, equity and ESG, ensures we challenge the status quo to stay focused on what matters most to our clients.

Dentons Rodyk is part of Dentons ASEAN, the first global pan-ASEAN law firm, which has an established history in Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Singapore. We will continue to grow our presence through combinations with exceptional local firms across the ASEAN region and help clients navigate change wherever they are located.

In the new dynamic decade, clients continue to be confronted with complex scenarios and want to work with a purpose-driven law firm that has the experience and confidence to help them thrive at wherever they are located. Through our combinations with firms that are leaders in their respective communities and local markets, along with the partner firms in Dentons’ Nextlaw Referral Network, Dentons is ideally positioned to support our clients everywhere in ASEAN and around the globe.in more than 80 countries.