Our Expertise

Our team seeks to understand each client's commercial objectives to provide practical and commercial solutions to transactions and regulatory matters.

We are experts in all matters relating to mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures, and focus on complex direct acquisitions and disposals across the region. We are structure agnostic in our approach, designing and structuring the transaction to best suit the commercial needs of each client. Our work includes transactions in highly-regulated industry sectors and our clients include leading private equity funds, sovereign wealth funds, market leading corporates (including MNCs), family offices and venture capital investors.

Employers need to proactively anticipate and adapt to a variety of evolving dynamics, including keeping up to date with legislative and regulatory changes, as well as considering broader shifts in workplace practices.

ADTLaw's employment practice encompasses both contentious and non-contentious matters across the full range of employment related matters including employee-specific issues such as contracts, work restructurings, terminations and disputes.

Our employment practice also regularly advises multinational corporations on the employment law aspects of cross-border M&A transactions, with clients benefiting from the insights of the firm's Asia-Pacific employment practice and ADTLaw's local expertise.

Singapore is well known as a leading international dispute resolution centre in the region. Our dispute resolution practice works with clients to deliver a range of dispute resolution services encompassing arbitration (both domestic and international), litigation, mediation, and dispute management and advisory.

We have successfully conducted trial and appellate litigation at all levels of the Singapore courts, arbitral proceedings under prominent institutional rules (including ICC and SIAC rules), as well as in hearings before various specialised tribunals.

Our key areas of expertise include corporate and commercial, minority oppression and shareholder disputes, employment, construction, property and energy disputes, and corporate insolvency and restructuring.

Our client representation focuses on multinational corporations as well as private and public local companies – many of which are recognised leaders of their respective industries. In addition, we represent government agencies and high-net-worth individuals.

Singapore is a major international financial centre in the domestic market and also the Asia-Pacific region. Our multi-jurisdictional capacity and technical expertise enable us to provide an international perspective coupled with an understanding of local client needs.

We strive to successfully manage large and complex transactions and projects. Our focus is on getting to the heart of our clients' needs and delivering practical, commercial solutions.

Our team comprises practitioners with deep market experience and industry knowledge, in large and complex secured and unsecured corporate, project and infrastructure, acquisition, Islamic, real estate, REIT, restructuring and insolvency, share-backed, pre-IPO, syndicated and sovereign financing transactions across multiple sectors and jurisdictions in Asia.

The real estate market in Singapore is known for its stability due to an efficient and transparent regulatory framework.

We advise on all forms of real estate investment and M&A covering all use classes of properties (including logistics, data centres, hospitality assets and commercial and residential buildings) in Singapore and across Asia.

Our familiarity across the full range of structures allows us to provide creative and commercial structuring solutions for real estate investments, eg. SMAs, OpCo-PropCo, AssetCo-ManagementCo, LLPs, trusts and LP-GP, etc. We also advise on asset-level agreements, including direct acquisitions, divestments, sale and leasebacks, leases and other service or management arrangements for real estate investment platforms such as investment management agreements, property management arrangements and development management agreements.

Singapore is known as a finance hub. Our funds team's core strengths include our deep market knowledge, experience, partner-led approach, and ability to draw on our global network, enabling us to provide seamless integrated legal advice for our clients.

Our experienced team advises on all aspects of fund formation, fund restructuring, fund investment, and fund regulatory matters, covering both offshore and onshore structures, including the Variable Capital Company (VCC), across a wide range of asset classes such as private equity, venture capital, real estate, infrastructure, and hedge funds.

We advise a full spectrum of clients, including fund managers, sponsors, financial institutions, sovereign wealth funds, investors, and family offices.