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PK Wong & Nair is a premier, full-service law corporation with roots going back more than 30 years. Since its founding, the firm has represented a diverse range of clients dealing with matters at all levels of legal complexity. The firm has earned considerable accolades, with clients recognising it for providing “practical and commercial solutions… with exceptional client care” (AsiaLaw 2022), being a “first stop because they are… excellent at what they do and always on top of their game” and being “super-responsive and committed… always personable and a pleasure to work with” (IFLR1000 2022). PK Wong & Nair’s client base includes individuals, small businesses, large multinational corporations, and financial institutions.
Our dynamic team of lawyers are capable of working in cross-disciplinary teams to ensure that every client receives comprehensive and fully integrated service.
Our lawyers possess a global mindset. We 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 and high-value and complex international restructuring and insolvency matters.
On 1 January 2023, PK Wong & Nair officially launched its joint law venture with Mayer Brown. The joint law venture offers clients an integrated service, offering seamless advice on international and Singapore law, with all Singapore court litigation and related advice provided through PK Wong & Nair
- Arbitration
- Appellate
- Banking
- Civil Litigation
- Civil rights
- Commercial arbitration
- Construction
- Corporate & Commercial
- Digital & Data Protection Law
- Employment & Immigration Law
- Estate Planning & Trusts
- Intellectual Property
- Family Law
- Intellectual Property
- Litigation
- Real Estate & Conveyancing
- Restructuring & Insolvency
Corporate and Commercial
Mark Wong
Co-Managing Director
mark.wong@mayerbrown.com
Recent case highlights:
- Acting in various acquisitions and take overs in Singapore and overseas including:
- advising vendors in the sale of Team-Metal, a global supplier of custom machined parts, to the Acrotec Group;
- advising founders on their disposal of D'crypt, a high-value engineering and research company delivering full-spectrum leading edge information and security solutions, to ST Engineering;
- advising founders on the disposal of Knight Auto, a leading precision product designer and manufacturer of products in the testing and assembly segment of the semiconductor industry, to Templewater;
- advising a leading semiconductor manufacturer on the acquisition of JTC premises in Singapore and tenders for cleanroom construction and commissioning;
- Advising corporates and family offices on the establishment and re-organisation of effective corporate structures in Singapore and in other jurisdictions.
- Acting in debt restructuring involving listed companies and schemes of arrangement.
Dispute Resolution
Suresh Nair
Co-Managing Director
suresh.nair@mayerbrown.com
Recent case highlights:
- Acted in the landmark Court of Appeal case of Pathfinder Strategic LP and another v Empire Capital Resources and another appeal [2019]) 2 SLR 77 for the Berau Group of companies in their US$1b bond restructuring exercise in which the Court of Appeal affirmed that third party releases are permissible in schemes of arrangement .
- Acted for an insured party in a COVID-19 business interruption claim. The High Court refused the insurer’s application to stay the case in favour of arbitration 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).
- Acted in a Court of Appeal case that upheld the effect of offset arrangements that were being disputed by the claimant bank (CIMB Bank Bhd v World Fuel Services (Singapore) Pte Ltd and another appeal [2021] 1 SLR 1217).
- Acted in the landmark Court of Appeal (International) case of Credit Agricole v PPT Energy Trading Co Ltd [2024] 2 SLR 95 on letters of credit and letters of indemnity in crude oil sales transactions.
- Regularly advises on and acts in employment disputes, including the recent case of Thillainathan Aravinthan v EMC Information Systems Management Ltd [2021] SGHC 289.
Acted for the liquidator in JTrust Asia Pte Ltd v Group Lease Holdings Pte Ltd [2024] SGHC 195, where the Court rejected allegations of bias against the liquidator.
- Accounting
- Banking
- Construction
- Consumer goods and services
- Luxury goods
- Energy
- Financial services
- HospitalityInformation technology
- Investment management
- Media
- Mining
- Natural resources
- Oil and gas
