Carey Olsen Singapore LLP maintains a dominating presence in Singapore’s offshore legal market, consistently demonstrating its full service capabilities when providing the complete range of services including banking and finance, funds, corporate, private wealth, insolvency, trusts and dispute resolution. Leading on the transactional side is Anthony McKenzie, bringing extensive experience in offshore corporate, investment funds and finance transactions, as well as being admitted to practice in the Cayman Islands, BVI and Bermuda. James Noble leads the contentious offering and is a specialist in complex and high-value shareholder litigation, asset-recovery, cross-border enforcement and insolvency. Tom Kastaros’ practice focuses primarily on the establishment, structuring and maintenance of offshore PE and hedge funds, while Helen Wang, who was promoted to partner in January 2023, has a wealth of experience advising clients on cross-border litigation across the banking and financial services, energy and resources, and insurance sectors. Counsel’s Kate Lan, Amelia Tan and Rebecca Lee are key members, with the former well-versed in complex shareholder, insolvency and company law related disputes; and the latter, highly sought after by top corporates, holding companies and family offices.

Walkers has established a deep bench of offshore specialists in Singapore, offering extensive experience across a number of key practice areas encompassing finance, corporate and investment funds, insolvency and dispute resolution; as well as the recent addition of a regulatory and risk advisory group. An expert on both BVI and Cayman Islands law, managing partner John Rogers brings a broad range of expertise from acquisition and real estate finance to securitisation and private equity. Laura Rogers, corporate and investment funds partner, regularly advises major international financial institutions, onshore law firms, corporate and investment managers. James Twigg has represented an abundance of Asia Pacific clients in high-value M&A, equity capital raisings and general corporate matters, while Richard Siddle has a particular focus on fund finance including capital call financings, NAV and hybrid facilities. On the finance side, Shirleen Tan has a strong niche acting for clients from Hong Kong and Greater China on a wide array of financing transactions.

With extensive knowledge of the BVI, Cayman Islands and other Eastern Caribbean jurisdictions laws, the Singapore offshore practice at Forbes Hare has a notably strong contentious offering; consistently covering complex cases concerning commercial, corporate, trust and investment disputes, as well as insolvency issues. Leading this contentious practice is the vastly experienced Sam Robertson, who regularly receives cross-border instructions from top financial institutions, family offices, trustees and insolvency practitioners. Catherine Ross leads the investment funds group, while Patrick Colegrave continues to act for clients located in numerous jurisdictions spanning the US, UK, South Africa and the Middle East.

The Singapore offshore practice at Harney Westwood & Riegels Singapore LLP is noted for its considerable breadth of expertise offered to both domestic and international clients, with specialists across corporate and finance funds, private wealth and trusts, restructuring and insolvency, regulatory work, and arbitration and litigation. The team has carved out a strong reputation for its skill in the crypto, blockchain and digital assets space, regularly advising on complex liquidations of funds and entities invested in digital assets. Managing partner Lishi Fong heads up the transactional offering, with her financial expertise including such areas as acquisition, pre-IPO, trade and property finance. Nicola Roberts leads the litigation, insolvency and restructuring team, having established a strong track-record handling complex cross-border litigation in the Cayman Islands, BVI, and Bermuda. Jayesh Chatlani was promoted to partner in January 2023 and specialises in multi-jurisdictional shareholder disputes, funds litigation and valuation disputes involving private ventures and listed companies.

Working collaboratively with team’s in the BVI, the Cayman Islands, London, Dubai and Dublin, Maples Group has a long-established reputation for servicing multinational clients on their investments in Asia, as well as Asia-based clients on their overseas investments. Providing the full spectrum of legal services, the practice is particularly well noted for its expertise advising on corporate, finance, insolvency, funds and investments, and dispute resolution issues. Michael Gagie is a leading figure and heads the BVI law practice, specialising in downstream PE, corporate, commercial, and banking and structured finance work. Head of the Asia corporate offering, Matt Roberts focuses on advising financial institutions, asset managers, and publicly listed and private companies. Nick Harrold is particularly adept regarding Japanese-related investments, while Iain Anderson caters to a broad range of PE and hedge funds, boutique managers, smaller start-up funds and investee companies.