Debby Lim

Practice Areas

Debby Lim is a partner in Dentons Rodyk's Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice group. She is the deputy head of the Firm's Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy practice group.

She has a broad commercial practice with overlapping strengths in banking and finance disputes, insolvency and restructuring, domestic and international arbitrations. She has also acted in construction and property-related disputes, shareholder disputes. She focuses on all areas of contentious insolvency, asset recovery work (including major commercial disputes), fraud and investigations. These often involve complex and multifaceted litigation in the aftermath of cross-border corporate collapses. Debby has represented debtors, creditors and officeholders in myriad insolvency-related litigation, including contested scheme of arrangement applications, creditor disputes, security enforcement and antecedent transactions.

She has acted in some of the most prominent and complex cross-border insolvency and restructuring matters in the Asia Pacific region. Debby is gaining a strong reputation for appellate advocacy. She has appeared before the Singapore Court of Appeal (with a full bench of five Judges) in a trifecta of jurisprudentially significant insolvency-related appeals to confront the Singapore courts.

Debby also has significant experience in restructuring and non-contentious insolvency work, including advising on the first “pre-packaged” scheme of arrangement and the first judicial management involving a foreign-incorporated entity. These are precedent-setting matters which impact the way the industry handles similar matters moving forward.

She is also one of the first three Singapore-qualified practitioners to be bestowed the prestigious fellowship from INSOL International. As a thought leader in the area of restructuring and insolvency, Debby writes frequently on the topic and recently contributed to the LexisNexis's Annotated Laws of Singapore. Debby recently also participated in the recent session of UNCITRAL Working Group V which debates and considers issues in relation to international and cross-border insolvency law.

Debby concurrently serves as the Co-Chair of the Law Society of Singapore's Publications Committee and Vice-Chair of the Insolvency Practice Committee.

Apart from work, Debby is engaged in diversity and inclusion as well as pro bono causes. She is currently a Director At Large of the International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation. Debby was previously Co-Chair of the Singapore Network. She is also a founding member of the Law Society of Singapore’s Women in Practice Task Force. Debby is a member of her firm's Inclusion Advisory Council.

Career

Partner, Dentons Rodyk & Davidson LLP (2021 to Present)

Shook Lin & Bok LLP (2009 to 2020)

TSMP Law Corporation (2008 to 2009)

Tan Kok Quan Partnership (2006 to 2008)

Professional Memberships

Member, Law Society of Singapore

Co-Vice Chairperson, Publications Committee of the Law Society of Singapore

Member, Women in Practice Committee of the Law Society of Singapore

Member, Singapore Academy of Law

Fellow, INSOL International

Fellow, Insolvency Practitioners Association of Singapore