Sarjit Singh Gill, Senior Counsel
Partner, Shook Lin & Bok LLP
Singapore
www.shooklin.com

Practice Area: Litigation & Arbitration

Experience: Sarjit Singh Gill, SC is Senior Counsel and Head of the Litigation, Insolvency and Restructuring practices of Shook Lin & Bok. He has been a partner at Shook Lin & Bok since 1984. He obtained an LLB (Hons) from the University of Singapore in 1976 and was admitted to the Singapore Bar in 1977. In June 2003, he was admitted as a Solicitor of England and Wales. He is regularly named as a Leading Lawyer in Singapore in publications such as IFLR 1000.

Over the past 30 years he has had an extensive practice in litigation, insolvency and restructuring. In litigation he has handled a wide range of disputes with a bias towards banking and finance litigation, a fair share involving Indonesian and other regional borrowers. In insolvency and restructuring matters he has acted in different capacities - for the creditor banks, for the insolvency practitioner and also at times for the borrower/debtor. He is in a comfortable position to advise creditor banks not only on local aspects of restructuring but also on the position of the creditor banks in the event that a company should decide to resort to local insolvency legislation or procedures for protection, for example, judicial management or the restraining order available under Section 210 of the Singapore Companies Act. In such event the creditor banks normally need advice on the various options open to them in the face of the protection sought by the company.

Sarjit has consistently been identified as one of Singapore’s leading insolvency/restructuring practitioners in the followinginternational publications:

• Chambers Asia 2008 and 2009 editions
• PLC Cross-border Restructuring and Insolvency Handbook 2007/08
• Who’s Who Legal: Insolvency & Restructuring 2004;
• In both 2002/3 and 2001/2 editions of Global Counsel 3000 (In the category of Dispute Resolution, Shook Lin & Bok is a highly recommended firm and Sarjit is listed as a highly recommended individual);
• In both 2001 and 2000 issues of the IFLR1000 (In the category of Insolvency and restructuring – local firms, the 2003 issue lists Shook Lin & Bok as a recommended firm);
• Latest issue of Euromoney’s Expert Guide: Asia Pacific Law and Tax Experts;
• Euromoney Expert Guide on Insolvency and Restructuring (1999); and
• In the Legal Who’s Who (London) at www.whoswholegal.com.

He served as Chairman of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association's Insolvency Committee from 2007 to 2008 and was Vice-Chairman from 1998-2005. He has spoken at various conferences largely on cross border insolvency issues. He has also spoken to banks and financial institutions on banking and insolvency topics.

He is the only Singapore member of the International Insolvency Institute (since 2004) and has also been the Singapore correspondent for the Receivers, Administrators and Liquidators' Quarterly since 1994. In 1999, he served as the Singapore consultant to the Asian Development Bank for its Symposium on Insolvency Law Reform in Asia. His report on banking, insolvency and restructuring in Singapore is available on the ADB website.

Goh Joon Seng
Consultant
Lee & Lee
www.leenlee.com.sg

Brief Profile
Received his LL.B. degree from the University of Singapore in 1962. He was admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore on 1 April 1963 and to that of West Malaysia in the following year. He practised at the Bar until his appointment as a Judicial Commissioner on 1 October 1990 and Judge of the Supreme Court on 15 November 1990.

Retired from the Supreme Court Bench on 22 March 2000, he is currently a Consultant with Lee & Lee; Member of the Senate of the Singapore Academy of Law; President of the Tribunal for the Maintenance of Parents; Chairman of Presidential Council for Religious Harmony; Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague on the nomination of the Government of Singapore; Member of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre Regional Panel of Arbitrators; Member of the Appeal Advisory Panel under the Securities and Futures Act (Cap. 289), the Financial Advisers Act (Cap. 110) and the Insurance Act (Cap. 142); Member of the Panel under Section 90(1)(a) of the Legal Profession Act; Chairman of the Financial Industry Disputes Resolution Centre (FIDReC); Chairman of the Income Tax Board of Review; Member of the United Nations Administrative Tribunal (UNAT); Member of the Panel of Conciliators and the Panel of Arbitrators at the International Centre For Settlement of Investment Disputes, Washington DC; Member of the Competition Appeal Board; Member of the Appeal Advisory Panel under the Trust Companies Act 2005 and the Business Trusts Act; Authority Member of the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore under the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore Act; Member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the Asia Pacific Regional Arbitration Group Panel (APRAG); Member of the National Council on Problem Gambling (NCPG) and Member of the Council of Presidential Advisers Singapore.

Joyce A Tan
Managing Partner
Joyce A. Tan & Partners, Singapore

Joyce is managing partner of Joyce A. Tan & Partners, which she established in 1998 as a boutique corporate and commercial law firm with special focus on technology, communications, media and intellectual property matters. Her practice typically entails cross-border transactions, in which she represents parties from either side of the Singapore border, including government bodies and multinational corporations. Joyce has been involved in many pioneering deals in her field, often driven by the novelty of the technology deployed or the business model adopted, the changing tides in the view of intangible assets and the availability of the digital platform.

Joyce is recognised among the top for Regulatory Communications and Patents in The International Who’s Who Legal Singapore 2008, for Communications in Global Communications 2002, for Communications in PLC Global Counsel 3000 (2003/2004), for Telecommunications in PLC Cross-border Communications Handbook 2005, for Telecommunications in PLC Which Lawyer Year Book 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006 and 2005, for Information Technology in Legal Who’s Who Singapore 2003/2004, for Information Technology (including e-commerce and telecommunications) in IFLR 1000 The Guide to the World’s Leading International Business Law Firms 2001, in The International Who’s Who of Regulatory Communications 2008, 2007, 2005 and 2003, in An International Who’s Who of Telecoms Lawyers 2001 and 1999, in The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers 2008, 2007, 2006 and 2002, in International Who’s Who Professionals 2006/2007, 2005/2006 & 2003/2004, in AsiaLaw Leading Lawyers 2000-2008, in AsiaLaw IP Awards 2006 and 2005, in Euromoney Guide to The World’s Leading Information Technology Advisers 1999, in Euromoney Guide to The World’s Leading Technology, Media & Telecommunications Lawyers 2008, 2005, 2003 and 2002.

• LLB (Honours), National University of Singapore, 1983
• Advocate & Solicitor, Supreme Court of the Republic of Singapore
• Roll of Solicitors, England & Wales (non-practising)
• Registered Patent Agent, Singapore
• Notary Public, Singapore
• Commissioner for Oaths, Singapore
• Panelist of Dispute Resolution Service under the Singapore Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy, 2001-2011
• Member of Law Reform Committee, Singapore, 2006-2009
• Accredited Consultant of SCOPE IP, Intellectual Property Office of Singapore
• Member of think tank Technology Law Development Group, Singapore
• Member of Legal Panel on Convergence Issues, Info-Communications Development Authority of Singapore
• Member of Working Group on Electronic Commerce, Singapore
• Examinations Committee for Singapore Patent Agents Qualifying Examination, Intellectual Property Office of Singapore, 2006

WONG Ai-Ai
Principal
Baker & McKenzie. Wong & Leow
www.bakernet.com

Practice Areas
Corporate & Securities

Practice Focus
Mrs. Wong is the Head of the Singapore Corporate & Securities Group, Head of Asia-Pacific Private Equity, and Member of Global Steering Committee for Private Equity.

Practice Description
Mrs. Wong has advised many multinational corporations, venture capitalists/private equity houses and financial institutions on their corporate legal requirements, capital raisings, and in their acquisitions and divestments of businesses.

Representative Clients, Cases or Matters
Recent transactions include:

• Advising YTL Corporation Berhad in relation to its acquisition from Macquarie Bank Limited of approximately 26% of the units in Macquarie Prime Real Estate Investment Trust ("MP-REIT"), a real estate investment trust listed on the main board of the SGX-ST; and 50% of the issued shares in a holding company which is the 100% shareholder of the manager and property manager of MP-REIT, for a total sum of S$285 million.
• Acted for Dubai-based Al-Futtaim Group in connection with its voluntary general offer for Singapore-listed Robinson and Company Limited, and subsequent privatization of Robinson & Company Limited at more than S$600 million.
• Acted for AXA Private Equity in its investment into Bharti Infratel Limited. This investment formed part of a larger restructuring exercise which involved the creation of an entity with several well-established international telecommunication companies in relation to passive telecommunication infrastructure in India. The total size of the deal is US$50 million.
• Acted for AXA Private Equity in its investment into Bharti Infratel Limited. This investment formed part of a larger restructuring exercise which involved the creation of an entity with several well-established international telecommunication companies in relation to passive telecommunication infrastructure in India. The total size of the deal is US$50 million.
• Advising the Affinity Group on the acquisition of 44% of and subsequent mandatory general offer for Singapore-listed Jaya Holdings Limited, including all relevant share sale and purchase agreements with the primary shareholder and management.  The size of the total offer was S$1 billion.
• Advising NutriAsia Inc. and San Miguel Corporation in their joint acquisition of Del Monte Pacific Limited by way of a put option and a takeover, at an offer price which valued the target at approximately US$418 million.

Education & Bar Admittance
Mrs. Wong is qualified as a Barrister in England and Wales (1987); an Attorney in New York (1988) and currently practices as an Advocate and Solicitor in Singapore (qualified in 1989).  She holds degrees from the University of Kent (B.A. Law, First Class Hons, 1985) and Harvard University Law School (LL.M., 1987).

Alvin Yeo
Senior Partner
WongPartnership LLP
www.wongpartnership.com.sg

Alvin YEO, Senior Counsel, is the Senior Partner of WongPartnership LLP. His main areas of practice are banking and corporate disputes, insolvency and restructuring, and construction and civil engineering matters. Alvin also has extensive experience in arbitration proceedings both in Singapore and in the region.

Some notable matters he has been involved in include:

• Acting for a Malaysian media group in an international arbitration concerning a proposed joint venture for satellite pay television services in Indonesia. The matter also involves multiple proceedings in other jurisdictions with claims totalling over US$1.75 billion;
• Acting for Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG in legal proceedings against Asia Pacific Breweries (Singapore) Pte Ltd ("APBS") in relation to the largest corporate fraud in Singapore's history;
• Acting for a US oil major, in an international arbitration against an international consortium of contractors and Singapore statutory body for damage to crude discharge facilities;
• Acting for a US private equity firm in a shareholder dispute arising from a US$267 million leveraged buy-out of a manufacturing company, involving Court actions in Singapore and Mauritius as well as 2 separate arbitration proceedings.

Alvin graduated from King’s College London, University of London, and was admitted to the English Bar (Gray’s Inn) in 1987 and the Singapore Bar in 1988. In January 2000, Alvin became the youngest lawyer to be appointed Senior Counsel.

He is a member of ICC Commission of Arbitration, the Singapore International Arbitration Centre's Main Panel of Arbitrators and a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators. He is also a member of the Appeals Advisory Panel of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, and served on two separate committees in 2002 and 2007, which reviewed the legal services sector and reported to the Government with proposals for reform. He is a Member of Parliament, and the Deputy Chairman of the Government Parliamentary Committee for Home Affairs and Law.

Alvin is recognised as a leading litigation and arbitration lawyer in international legal directories such as Asia Pacific Legal 500; IFLR 1000; Best Lawyers International; Guide to the World's Leading Litigation Lawyers; Guide to the World's Experts in Commercial Arbitration; and The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers.

Pathmanaban Selvadurai
Consultant
Tan Rajah & Cheah
www.trc.com.sg

Education
Educated at Raffles Institution, Singapore, University College, London (LLB) and was called to the English Bar in 1960 at the Middle Temple. Called to the Bar in Singapore in 1961 and has been in practice ever since.

Admitted to the Singapore Bar in 1961

Employment Record

• 2008 – till todate: Tan Rajah & Cheah
• 1967 – 2007 (Dec): Rodyk & Davidson
• 1964 – 1967: Lee & Lee
• 1961 – 1964:Allen & Gledhill

Practice Areas

A. LITIGATION

• Admiralty and International Air Carriage matters usually for hull underwriters; joint venture shipmanagement contracts where the joint ventures came apart and needed resolution. Also acted as Arbitrator or Counsel in charterparty shipping cases.
• Building and Engineering Contract matters, both as Arbitrator and Counsel.
• Land Acquisition and property tax valuation cases.
• General corporate and commercial matters in the fields of banking and insurance.
• Employment Contracts. Wrote the chapters on the Law of Industrial Relations and Practice in Halsbury’s Laws of Singapore Vol 9 (Employment).

B. NON-LITIGATION ADVISORY WORK

• Claims Panel Advisor under the Law Society of Singapore Compulsory Professional Indemnity Scheme, since 1994.
• Estate Duty assessments.
• General negotiation and advisory work in the formation of commercial contracts.

C. POSITIONS HELD

• President - Inter Pacific Bar Association (IPBA) (1994 - 1995)
• Member - Pacific Rim Advisory Council (PRAC)
• Councillor/Member - The Law Association for Asia and the Pacific (Singapore’s Representative) (LAWASIA)
• President - Singapore Indian Fine Arts Society
• Vice-President - The Singapore Eye Foundation
• Former Member - Board of Directors of The National Eye Centre (1995-2000)
• Former Member - Panel of Accredited Arbitrators of The International Singapore Arbitration Centre (SIAC)
• Former Member - Mass Rapid Transport Corporation (MRTC) Panel of Arbitrators
• Former Board Member - Save the Children Singapore Limited
• Member - International Relations Committee of The Law Society of Singapore
• Sometime Member of Parliament in Singapore from 1967 to 1984
• Co-author
  Butterworths’ Annotated Statutes of Singapore Volume 4 on;
  Employment Act
  Industrial Relations Act
  Retirement Age Act
  Workmen’s Compensation Act
  Trade Disputes Act
  Trade Unions Act
  Central Provident Fund Act
• Member of the MITA Steering Committee of the Arts School
• Legal Assessor to the Singapore Medical Council Disciplinary Inquiry
• Member of the Board of Trustees of SNEC Endowment
• Legal Assessor to the Singapore Dental Council