Kenneth Lim

Practice Areas

International Arbitration; Litigation; Restructuring & Insolvency; Employment, Health & Safety

Career

Kenneth’s main areas of practice are litigation, restructuring and insolvency, and international arbitration. He has substantial experience representing clients in complex contentious matters involving contractual claims, property disputes, shareholder disputes, banking claims, trust disputes, directors’ duties, media and entertainment disputes, employment, and defamation. Kenneth also regularly represents lenders, borrowers and insolvency professionals in relation to liquidation, judicial management, receivership, schemes of arrangement, and complex multi-jurisdictional restructurings.

Prior to joining Allen & Gledhill, Kenneth served as a Justices’ Law Clerk with the Supreme Court of Singapore, and as a Legal Counsel with the Competition Commission of Singapore.

Kenneth has appeared as amicus curiae under the Supreme Court’s Young Amicus Curiae scheme on novel matters concerning constitutional protections, criminal procedure and sentencing.

Professional Memberships

Chairman, Advisory Committee to the Professional Conduct Council, Singapore established under the Legal Profession Act. Co-Chair, Professional Standards & Ethics Working Group, Singapore Academy of Law. Fellow, Insolvency Practitioners Association of Singapore. Member, Admissions Committee of the Law Society of Singapore. Accredited Associate Mediator, Singapore Mediation Centre.

Publications

The Singapore chapter of The Restructuring Review, Singapore Civil Procedure. The Singapore chapters of The International Comparative Legal Guide (ICLG): Corporate Recovery & Insolvency and the ICLG: Leniency Regimes published by Global Legal Group.

Education

Languages Spoken

English; Chinese