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PK Wong & Nair LLC
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PK Wong & Nair LLC is a premier, full service law corporation with roots that go back more than 30 years. Since its founding, the firm has maintained an abiding commitment to providing real, practical solutions to a diverse range of clients dealing with matters at all levels of legal complexity.
The firm has a diverse client base and expertise in myriad areas of law, including small businesses, large multinational corporations and financial institutions, international law firms and shareholders dealing with boardroom disputes. The firm's transactional lawyers have been involved in countrywide telecommunications privatisation transactions and water infrastructure projects. They have also lent their expertise to the specialist area of resort development work, involving the drafting of legislation passed as law by the Government of Antigua and Barbuda in the Caribbean. Its disputes lawyers have acted as counsel in landmark cases in areas as varied as private banking, commodities trading, cross-border schemes of arrangement, clawback claims in liquidations, securities regulation, and in construction and torts. With clients increasingly embracing digitalisation in their business operations, the firm has also moved to develop in-depth expertise in digital and data protection law in order to better aid its clients in their forays into cyberspace.
PK Wong & Nair's dynamic team of lawyers is capable of working in cross-disciplinary teams to ensure that every client receives comprehensive and fully integrated service. Its lawyers possess a global mindset and have worked on a wide range of cross-border and international transactions, including mergers and acquisitions for multinational corporations, and have acted as counsel in multi-jurisdictional disputes heard in Courts and in arbitrations, and also in high-value and complex international restructuring and insolvency matters.
A large volume of the firm's work involves an international clientele with transactions taking place in Singapore as well as in the Asia-Pacific region, Australasia and other parts of the world. With the extensive network of strong ties cultivated over the years with established correspondent law firms in the Asia-Pacific, the United Kingdom and the United States, the firm is able to bring together and manage teams of lawyers across multiple jurisdictions while continuing to offer seamless service for its clients, wherever they may be.
- Banking & Finance
- Capital Markets
- Competition/Antitrust
- Construction
- Corporate & M&A
- Dispute Resolution
- Regulatory
- Labour & Employment
- Private Equity
- Restructuring & Insolvency
Corporate & Commercial
Mark Wong
Co-Managing Director
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Recent case highlights:
- Advising on and acting in various acquisitions and reverse take overs in Singapore and overseas.
- Advising clients on the establishment of effective corporate structures in Singapore and in other jurisdictions.
- Advising and acting for clients in debt restructuring involving listed companies and schemes of arrangement.
Dispute Resolution
Suresh Nair
Co-Managing Director
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Recent case highlights:
- Acted for the Berau Group of companies in Singapore proceedings in its US$1 billion bond restructuring exercise, including in the landmark decision of Pathfinder Strategic LP and another v Empire Capital Resources and another appeal [2019] 2 SLR 77.
- Acting for an insured party in a COVID 19 business interruption insurance claim. The insurer applied for the case to be stayed in favour of arbitration, but the High Court refused the application in a landmark decision on the efficacy of “carve outs” in arbitration agreements (Silverlink Resorts Limited v MS First Capital Insurance Limited [2020] SGHC 251).
- Regularly advises on and acts in employment disputes.
Offices
Address:
2 Shenton Way
#16-02, SGX Centre 1
Singapore, 068804
Singapore
Telephone: +65 6827 5555
Fax: +65 6827 5550, +65 6827 5560
Email: [email protected]
Web: pkwongnair.com
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Singapore - Head office
25 North Bridge Rd
#02-02
, Singapore, Singapore Island, Singapore, 179104