Kelvin Wong

Practice Areas

Construction & Engineering; Corporate & Commercial; Employment, Health & Safety; Energy, Infrastructure & Projects

Career

Kelvin is Co-Head of the Corporate & Commercial Department at Allen & Gledhill. He also co-heads the Energy, Infrastructure & Projects Practice, and the Employment, Health & Safety Practice.

Kelvin acts as counsel to key global and local players in the energy, gas, petrochemical, specialty gases, waste management, and water treatment sectors. Kelvin has considerable experience advising on project development and structuring, and complex regulatory and transactional issues. He is widely regarded as one of the leading lawyers and a trusted legal advisor in infrastructure projects. Kelvin possesses extensive knowledge of the energy and gas sectors in Singapore, and frequently advises electricity, gas and other industry participants on their business operations, including the generation and cross-border import of renewable energy, environmental attributes, and carbon management projects.

His practice also encompasses district cooling, storage and terminalling, tolling, contract manufacturing, outsourcing and other service arrangements. He regularly advises on a broad range of general commercial transactions, including public and private procurement, public-private partnerships, cross-border sale of goods, distribution and agency arrangements, equipment securitisation and leasing arrangements.

On employment, health & safety matters, Kelvin regularly advises multinational and local employers across the full range of HR related issues, including structuring cross-border employment arrangements, establishing and implementing HR policies, managing performance issues and disciplinary processes, advising on reductions-in-force, and collective bargaining and industrial relations.

Professional Memberships

Deputy Chairman, Law Society Pro Bono Services.

Board of the Singapore Anti-Narcotics Association.

Publications

Singapore chapters of The International Comparative Legal Guide to Oil & Gas Regulation 2024 and The International Comparative Legal Guide to Project Finance Laws & Regulations 2024 by Global Legal Group.