Director

Building on the practice he established as a partner at an international law firm, Chien Herr is frequently instructed on banking and finance and corporate commercial matters. He advises on all aspects of financing; his mergers and acquisitions and cross-border ship finance expertise has been mentioned in a number of prominent industry publications. His sector experience includes fintech and start-ups, maritime, commodities and commercial property developments (in Singapore and overseas).

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Chien Herr’s well-rounded practice includes advising banks and companies on a variety of cross-border restructuring transactions, work-outs as well as enforcement scenarios. His corporate commercial portfolio also includes advising on the corporate and finance aspects of joint ventures and mergers and acquisitions.

Lee Chien Herr

Director

Leon is a banking, finance and corporate lawyer, known for his commercial, client- focussed advice as well as the perspective which he brings to bear due to the international nature of his practice (having also practiced in Tokyo for some time).

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With more than 20 years of practice experience, his expertise is frequently called upon in relation to structuring advice for innovative products, trade and commodities finance, mergers and acquisitions as well as insolvency and restructuring transactions. His banking and finance practice also includes asset finance transactions involving vessels, aircraft, commercial and residential property. Power and infrastructure project finance, restructuring of sovereign debt are also areas of experience.

Leon Low

llow@asiapractice.com.sg

Director

Jonathan’s practice is in banking and finance, regulatory, general corporate law and mergers and acquisitions. In his time at some of Singapore’s largest firms and an international firm specialising in finance and transportation, he has worked on a number of high-value and complex, cross-border asset finance and commercial banking matters. He is consistently recognised as a leading individual in the Shipping area in a prominent industry publication.

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He has also advised on transactional and regulatory swaps and derivatives matters. His regulatory experience includes advising banks, international financial institutions looking to set up in Singapore, start-ups and fintech companies on licensing and compliance issues. In addition, he has assisted companies with early-stage investments in, and mergers and acquisitions of, assets both in Singapore and abroad.

Jonathan Tan

jtan@asiapractice.com.sg

Associate Director

Richway leads the firm’s Media practice (both contentious and non-contentious). He has advised on investments related to media content worldwide. He regularly speaks at conferences and film festivals on matters related to film & content financing, IP Protection, and Media law.  He is also a seasoned disputes lawyer having successfully represented banks, PE firms, MNCs and high net-worth individuals in complex high value disputes before the Singapore Courts and at various international arbitration centres.

Richway was the General Counsel of one of Southeast Asia’s leading content and media funds, which has also co-produced Storm Boy (the top grossing Australian made movie of 2019) and Bottom of the Ninth (a baseball movie endorsed by the New York Yankees)

Richway Ponnampalam