Duane Morris & Selvam LLP

Duane Morris & Selvam LLP

Chairman: Leon Yee

Managing Directors: Arfat Selvam, Sarbjit Singh Chopra

Number of partners: 13

Total number of lawyers in Singapore: 34

Languages: Bahasa Indonesia, Burmese, Cantonese, English, German, Hindi, Korean, Malay, Mandarin, Punjabi, Shanghainese, Spanish, Vietnamese

Firm Overview:

Duane Morris & Selvam LLP is a Singapore-based strategic joint venture law firm, consisting of Philadelphia-based Duane Morris LLP and Singapore-based Selvam LLC. The firm serves a wide range of premier clients throughout Asia and foreign companies conducting business in Asia and beyond. The firm has a presence in the key markets of Southeast Asia, including Singapore, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City as well as offices in Shanghai and Yangon. Supporting these regional offices, the firm operates a series of country desks for India, Indonesia, Korea and Japan, as well as an alliance in Sri Lanka.

Together, Duane Morris & Selvam has over 900 highly skilled and committed lawyers in 28 offices across the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The firm has strong multi-disciplinary expertise across a wide range of legal services.

In the area of FinTech & Blockchain Technology space, Duane Morris & Selvam assists Independent Reserve in obtaining their first “in-principle approval” from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to operate as a regulated provider of Digital Payment Token services in Singapore.

The firm is regularly ranked among the region’s leading law firms by Chambers & Partners, other international legal publications.

Main Areas of Practice:

• Banking & Finance
• Capital Markets
• Corporate Commercial
• Dispute Resolution
• Energy, projects & Infrastructure
• FinTech & Blockchain Technology
• International Arbitration
• Intellectual Property
• Investment Funds
• Labour & Employment
• Mediation
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Private Client
• Private Equity & Venture Capital
• Real Estate
• Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT)

Banking & Finance:

The firm offers experienced and comprehensive business and legal guidance for clients and support them with complex transactions and financings such as cross-border syndicated lending, leveraged & acquisition finance, debt restructuring, real estate financing, project financing, mezzanine financing, divestments, hive-offs and spin-offs.

Contact: Leon Yee

E: [email protected]

Corporate/M&A:

The firm advises early-stage and mature companies on a wide variety of corporate and commercial matters, from planning and structuring to negotiating, documenting and implementing the transaction. Lawyers are involved in large and high-profile M&A transactions in Singapore and throughout the region.

Contact: Leon Yee

E: [email protected]

Capital Markets:

The firm provide a comprehensive range of services to assist on listings and offers of securities in Singapore, from the initial restructuring of companies to seeking relevant approvals from the Singapore Stock Exchange and the Monetary Authority of Singapore. The firm also advises on Rule 144A and Regulation S global offerings, and US-registered offerings, of equity and debt securities, including liability management exchange offers, tender offers, consent solicitation transactions and complex debt restructurings. The firm’s three US capital markets partners in Singapore combine broad global training with deep Asian experience and have advised on over 175 debt and equity capital markets transactions with over US$50 billion raised in aggregate.

Contact: Jamie Benson

E: [email protected]

International Arbitration/Dispute Resolution/ Mediation:.

The firm’s disputes practice offers clients a broad range of assistance in both domestic and international arbitration matters, including matters at SIAC, ICC, LCIA and UNCITRAL. The Singapore law entity, Selvam LLC, handles all Singapore law dispute matters, including a wide range of commercial litigation, compliance and investigations including corporate, banking and commercial, insolvency, construction, intellectual property, employment, legacy disputes, defamation suits, fraud, international trade and some criminal and family law matters. Lawyers are also experienced in mediation advocacy.

Contact: Sarbjit Singh Chopra

E: [email protected]

TMT/Fintech/Blockchain:

The TMT practice comprises a team of dedicated tech-savvy lawyers who act on international matters across Asia. Armed with vast industry-specific practice knowledge, the team is well-equipped to address the intricacies involved in navigating the challenging TMT landscape in an integrated, strategic and efficient manner. Lawyers have extensive experience advising on M&A, capital markets, regulatory and commercial transactions in the telecoms towers industry. The fintech team has advised on over 200 blockchain and blockchain related projects involving major digital asset exchanges and traders, banks, private DLT and enterprise blockchain developers across the blockchain ecosystem worldwide.

Contact: Leon Yee

E: [email protected]

Projects, Energy & Infrastructure:

The firm has advised multinational corporations, national energy regulators and government-owned utilities across Asia on a broad range of energy and infrastructure projects. With an extensive experience working on significant and major international energy and infrastructure projects, the firm is able to provide legal support and advice to clients from the pre-feasibility and planning stages, through public tender, licensing, start-up and implementation, as well as the operational stages.

Contact: Leon Yee

E: [email protected]