Employment: Domestic
Asia-Pacific Guide 2024 : Singapore
Band 1
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+65 6338 1888Chambers Review
Baker McKenzie has a market-leading team of lawyers in Singapore, well placed to advise international corporations on their operations across Asia, with clients benefiting from its extensive network of offices. The firm offers advice on the full range of employment law matters, with expertise in both contentious and non-contentious issues, including restrictive covenants, workforce restructuring, redundancies, employee investigations and wrongful dismissal claims. The team advises multinational corporations across a wide range of sectors, including technology, financial services, healthcare and retail.
Strengths
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"Baker McKenzie is always ready to provide ad hoc, simple advice. The firm is extremely service-oriented and the advice is practical and sound."
"The team are always very responsive and provide a commercial approach, in addition to their technical knowledge."
"Baker McKenzie is always ready to provide ad hoc, simple advice. The firm is extremely service-oriented and the advice is practical and sound."
"The team are always very responsive and provide a commercial approach, in addition to their technical knowledge."
Notable Practitioners
Celeste Ang is highly regarded in Singapore for her employment law advice, handling unfair dismissal claims, non-compete clause matters and retrenchments.
"Celeste is practical, thoughtful and has a good grasp of commercial realities. She's amazingly responsive and a pleasure to work with."
"She is on top of all laws and developments, and able to provide commercially workable solutions and call out non-legal pitfalls and issues to take care of."
Kelvin Poa is a principal in Singapore who advises on a broad range of employment matters for multinational conglomerates. His employment practice covers retrenchments and restructurings as well as non-compete issues.
Ng Zhao Yang continues to build up his reputation in Singapore's employment law sphere, and advises corporate clients on retrenchments and workplace regulations, as well as immigration.
"Zhao Yang is very responsive and provides technically strong and commercial advice."
"He is very well versed and has been in the field for some time. He gives us confidence and knows the best practices."
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Baker McKenzie
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