Accolades
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We seek the highest standards for our clients. Our prime focus has been, and remains, harnessing strong legal expertise, commercial acumen and practical experience to deliver the best outcomes for our clients.
Through the years, our approach and commitment to the practice of law have attracted recognition and honours. We are deeply grateful for the trust and confidence that our clients place in us, and for the many awards and accolades accorded to us.
2024
We are pleased to announce that our Partner Dr Stanley Lai, SC has been named as one of Asia’s Top 15 Intellectual Property Lawyers in 2024 by Asian Legal Business.
This list highlights the achievements of Intellectual Property lawyers across Asia who have consistently delivered high-quality Intellectual Property work and set high standards in the Intellectual Property space, in addition to earning accolades from their colleagues, superiors and clients.
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Allen & Gledhill along with its network firms under the A&G Asia banner continue to maintain their leading positions in the region according to the latest rankings released by Chambers and Partners.
Singapore
Our Firm continues to have the highest number of Band 1 practice rankings and recognised lawyers in the country in the Chambers Asia-Pacific 2025 edition. In total, we have received 17 Band 1 practice rankings, with 72 lawyers recognised by the publication. Of the recognised lawyers, 25 were ranked Band 1 or as an exceptional individual (Senior Statesperson/Star Individual/Eminent Practitioner).
Additionally, our Firm was ranked Band 1 in the 2025 edition of the Chambers FinTech Guide released earlier this month with one Partner ranked in the top band.
Malaysia
Our associate firm, Rahmat Lim & Partners, continues to perform well in the rankings, with four Band 1 practice rankings (Banking & Finance, Corporate/M&A, Projects, Infrastructure & Energy, and Real Estate) and 15 recognised lawyers. Of the recognised lawyers, one was ranked as an Eminent Practitioner and three were ranked Band 1.
Vietnam
Our Vietnam office has been ranked for the first time in Corporate/M&A.
Indonesia
Our associate firm, AGI Legal, is ranked for the first time in Corporate/M&A, with three lawyers recognised by the publication. Of the recognised lawyers, one was ranked Band 1.
Myanmar
Our Myanmar office continues to be ranked Band 1 in General Business Law in Myanmar with one lawyer ranked in the top band.
For more information on our rankings, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has been ranked as one of the world’s top restructuring and insolvency practices for the fifth consecutive year by Global Restructuring Review (GRR) in its annual GRR 100 rankings.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners, is ranked in the GRR 100 for the first time.
The GRR 100 is an annual guide that highlights the world’s leading law firms for cross-border restructuring and insolvency matters.
For more information about our Restructuring & Insolvency Practice, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice won the Singapore Patent Contentious Firm of the Year award at the recent Asia IP Awards 2024.
The 15th edition of the Asia IP Awards was held on 17 November 2024 at Blackbird restaurant in Manila, and recognised top trademarks, patents and copyright practices as determined by in-house counsel from Asia, Europe and the Americas.
For more information on the Asia IP Awards 2024, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice continues to be recognised as a leading practice for Patent work by Asia IP, with a Tier 1 ranking for both Patent Contentious and Patent Prosecution in their 2024 Patent Rankings.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners has maintained their rankings, and were ranked Tier 1 for Patent Contentious and Tier 2 for Patent Prosecution in the same survey.
For more information on our rankings, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill’s White Collar & Investigations Practice has been ranked as one of the world’s top investigations practices for the seventh consecutive year by Global Investigations Review (GIR) in its annual GIR 100 2024 rankings.
The GIR 100 is an annual guide to the world’s leading cross-border investigations practices. The guide aims to determine the top 100 firms from around the world which handle sophisticated cross-border government-led and internal investigations.
For more information about our rankings, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has been named Singapore Firm of the Year at the Lexology Index Awards 2024.
This is the 14th time that Allen & Gledhill has won the country award for Singapore.
The Lexology Index Awards recognises both firms and individual practitioners that have performed exceptionally well in Lexology Index’s research, in more than 70 jurisdictions globally.
For more information about the Awards, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice won the Singapore Trademark Firm of the Year award at the recent Global IP Awards 2024.
The fifth edition of the Global IP Awards was held on 17 October 2024 at the St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel in London, and recognised the outstanding achievements of law and attorney firms in litigation, prosecution, and transactional work during 2023/2024.
For more information on the Global IP Awards 2024, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has been recognised as one of the top law firms in Singapore by The Straits Times in its “Singapore’s Best Law Firms 2025” survey.
We would like to thank our clients and friends for their unwavering support, as well as their confidence and trust in our Firm.
To find out more about the survey, please click here.
We are pleased to announce that our Firm has been named FinTech Law Firm of the Year at the ALB Pan Asian Regulatory Awards 2024, which took place on Thursday, 26 September.
The ALB Pan Asian Regulatory Awards acknowledges the remarkable achievements of compliance professionals within the financial services industry and the supporting professional services firms, and serves as a platform to honour the excellence of industry pioneers and teams who consistently push the boundaries to drive the industry forward.
To find out more about the Awards, please click here.
We are pleased to announce that AGI Legal, an associate firm of Allen & Gledhill, has been named Best New Law Firm in Asia Business Law Journal’s Indonesia Law Firm Awards 2024.
The Asia Business Law Journal’s Indonesia Law Firm Awards are based on votes, references and qualitative information received from in-house counsel and other legal professionals in Indonesia and around the world.
For more information about the Awards, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill’s Mergers & Acquisitions Practice continues to be ranked Tier 1 in the Singapore Domestic firm category of the Asia M&A Rankings 2024 report released by Asian Legal Business (ALB).
In the same report, our associate firm Rahmat Lim & Partners has maintained its Tier 1 ranking in the Malaysia firm category. Our Vietnam office has also maintained its ranking in the Vietnam firm category.
The ALB Asia M&A rankings spotlight the leading law firms driving the region’s most impactful deals, and are based on information drawn from firm submissions, Thomson Reuters M&A data, interviews, editorial resources and market suggestions.
For more information, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has been recognised as a top tier law firm by IFLR1000 Asia-Pacific 2024. We continue to be the only Singapore firm ranked Tier 1 across all local practice areas, with the most number of recognised lawyers across the practices. We are also the only Singapore firm to be recognised as an Active Firm for both newly introduced practice areas, Asset Finance and Financial Services Regulatory. For individual rankings, 78 of our lawyers were named, with 4 lawyers ranked as Market Leaders, 29 as Highly Regarded, 4 as Rising Star Partners, and 41 recognised as Notable Practitioners.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners, continues to be ranked Tier 1 for Banking and Finance, M&A, Project Development: Energy and Project Development: Infrastructure. They have also improved their rankings to Tier 1 in Capital Markets: Debt and Capital Markets: Equity. For individual rankings, 20 lawyers were named, with 1 ranked as a Market Leader, 12 as Highly Regarded, 3 as Rising Star Partners, 1 as a Rising Star, and 3 recognised as Notable Practitioners.
Our Myanmar office has 2 named lawyers, with 1 ranked as Highly Regarded and 1 recognised as a Notable Practitioner.
Our Vietnam office continues to be recognised in both M&A and Project Development with 4 named lawyers. Of the named lawyers, 1 is ranked as Highly Regarded, while 3 are recognised as Notable Practitioners.
Our associate firm in Indonesia, AGI Legal, has 3 named lawyers, with 2 ranked as Highly Regarded and 1 ranked as a Rising Star Partner.
For more information on our rankings, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill’s Tax Practice has once again been ranked Tier 1 under the Tax category, in the 2025 rankings released by World Tax. We remain the only Singapore law firm to be ranked in this tier.
We are also recognised in the Tax controversy category, which is a new category that was introduced by the publication this year.
Our Partners, Sunit Chhabra and Lim Pek Bur, have also maintained their individual rankings. Sunit Chhabra is ranked as ‘Highly Regarded’ in the General Corporate Tax and Tax Controversy categories, while Lim Pek Bur is ranked as ‘Highly Regarded’ in the Indirect Tax and Women in Tax categories.
These rankings reflect the strength of our Tax Practice, which is further supported by Tax Law expert Professor Stephen Phua, who recently joined our Firm as a Consultant.
World Tax is produced in association with International Tax Review, providing rankings and profiles of the most effective tax practitioners in more than 100 jurisdictions globally. To find out more about our rankings, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice has once again been recognised as a top tier firm for IP Transactions and maintained its ranking as a leading firm in the Copyright & Related Rights category of the IP STARS 2024 firm rankings, released by Managing IP.
For more information on our rankings, please click here.
The Allen & Gledhill network of firms known as A&G Asia continues to be recognised in South-east Asia in the latest Who’s Who Legal: Southeast Asia 2024 guide.
Singapore
Allen & Gledhill continues to be credited with the most number of listings across the most number of practice areas in South-east Asia. In total, our lawyers were listed 112 times across 28 practice areas, with many being lauded for their dedication and experience.
Malaysia
Rahmat Lim & Partners has achieved improvement in its listings, and was credited with 14 listings across 10 practice areas.
Vietnam
Allen & Gledhill (Vietnam) was credited with two listings in two practice areas, with the lawyers being newly recognised in the areas of Energy and Real Estate respectively.
Indonesia
AGI Legal was credited with one listing in the Energy practice area.
Who’s Who Legal: Southeast Asia 2024 is an in-depth guide to the region's legal marketplace, highlighting top lawyers and experts across over 40 areas of business law.
Allen & Gledhill’s Private Wealth Practice and Investment Funds Practice have maintained their top tier rankings for Family Offices & Funds Structuring in the Chambers High Net Worth Guide 2024.
In addition, our Partner Bernice Loo, has been newly ranked as a Band 2 individual for Family/Matrimonial.
The Chambers High Net Worth Guide ranks leading law firms, lawyers, and professional advisers in private wealth management work and related specialisms around the world.
For more information, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice has maintained its top tier rankings in the Patent Disputes and Patent Prosecution categories of the IP Stars 2024 rankings released by Managing IP.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners, has also been recognised as a leading firm in the same categories.
For more information, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice has maintained its Tier 1 rankings for Trademark Contentious and Trademark Prosecution in the 2024 Asia IP Trademark Survey.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners have also maintained their Tier 1 ranking for the Trademark Contentious category in the same survey.
For more information on our rankings, please click here.
We are pleased to announce that Allen & Gledhill has been named the Best Law Firm in Singapore for the fourth time at the FinanceAsia Awards 2024.
The FinanceAsia Awards celebrates the best financial institutions and law firms in the various jurisdictions in Asia. The Best Law Firm award recognises outstanding law firms which have undertaken ground-breaking transactions, demonstrated creativity in service to clients, as well as successfully navigated complex regulatory issues across multiple jurisdictions and practice areas.
“We are humbled and honoured to receive this award. We would like to dedicate this recognition to our clients for their unwavering support and trust in our Firm. We will continue to grow and strengthen our relationship with our clients, and build on our commitment to provide them with quality and trusted legal counsel in Singapore and across Asia.”, said Jerry Koh, Managing Partner of Allen & Gledhill.
For more information, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has been recognised in the Asian Legal Business Asia's Top 15 ESG Law Firms 2024 list.
This is the second consecutive time we have been recognised in the list.
The list spotlights law firms that have delivered exceptional legal services to businesses by addressing ESG considerations while achieving long-term prosperity.
For more information on the Asia's Top 15 ESG Law Firms 2024 list, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice has been recognised in the latest edition of the IAM Patent 1000 rankings. Our Intellectual Property Practice has maintained the rank of “Gold” in the Litigation category, “Silver” in the Prosecution category, and "Recommended” in the Transactions category, and our Partners Dr Stanley Lai, SC, Low Pei Lin, and Tham Kok Leong continue to be recognised as leading individuals in the Litigation, Prosecution and Transactions categories respectively.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners were also ranked “Silver” and “Bronze” in the Prosecution and Litigation categories respectively. Partner Pauline Khor is also ranked “Silver” in both the individual categories of Prosecution and Litigation.
IAM Patent 1000 is a directory dedicated to identifying the world’s leading patent professionals.
For more information, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has been named Singapore Firm of the Year at the Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific Awards 2024.
In addition to the jurisdictional award, Allen & Gledhill was also named Shipping Law Firm of the Year.
The Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific Awards celebrates the leading litigators and most impactful disputes across Asia-Pacific based upon the information captured in the submission for the latest edition of Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific. Winners were announced online on 20 May 2024.
Alongside the Awards, Benchmark Litigation also revealed its Top 100 Women in Litigation 2024 and inaugural Top 40 under 40 2024 guides.
Consultant Vivian Ang and Partner Corina Song were recognised in Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific’s Top 100 Women in Litigation 2024 guide. The guide profiles leading women litigators who have earned their place by participating in some of the most impactful litigation matters in recent history, as well as by earning the hard-won respect of clients and peers and top players in their respective fields.
Partner Erik Widjaja was recognised in Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific’s inaugural Top 40 under 40 2024 guide. The guide aims to identify the best and brightest litigators under the age of 40 across Asia-Pacific.
To find out more about the Awards and guides, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice has maintained its top tier rankings in the Trade mark Disputes and Trade mark Prosecution categories of the IP Stars 2024 rankings released by Managing IP.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners, has also been recognised as a leading firm in the same categories.
For more information, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has clinched a total of seven wins, including being named SE Asia Law Firm of the Year and Singapore Law Firm of the Year at the prestigious Asian Legal Business SE Asia Law Awards 2024, which took place on Thursday, 16 May. The awards are an annual event celebrating the success of the region’s leading law firms, in-house counsel, dealmakers and deals.
In addition to the regional and country Law Firm of the Year awards, we clinched four other Firm awards and received recognition for our involvement in one Deal of the Year award. These awards are:
- Aviation Law Firm of the Year
- Corporate Citizenship Law Firm of the Year
- Medical and Healthcare Law Firm of the Year
- Real Estate Law Firm of the Year
- M&A Deal of the Year (VTAC’s De-SPAC and Business Combination with 17LIVE Inc.)
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners, has also been recognised for their involvement in the Equity Market Deal of the Year (J&T Express IPO).
“We are humbled and honoured to receive these awards. We would like to dedicate this recognition to our clients for their continuous support and unwavering trust in our Firm. We will continue to work hard to strengthen our service delivery to, and relationships with, our clients; in addition to providing them with quality and trusted legal counsel in Singapore and the rest of Asia.”, said Jerry Koh, Managing Partner of Allen & Gledhill.
To find out more about the ALB SE Asia Law Awards, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice has maintained its Gold rankings in the areas of Enforcement and Litigation as well as Prosecution and Strategy in the WTR 1000 2024 rankings.
Our Partners also continue to be recognised as leading individuals in WTR 1000 2024 with Dr Stanley Lai, SC maintaining his Gold ranking for ‘Enforcement and Litigation’, Low Pei Lin ranking Gold for ‘Prosecution and Strategy’, Vignesh Vaerhn maintaining his Bronze rankings for both ‘Enforcement and Litigation’ and ‘Prosecution and Strategy’, and Tham Kok Leong retaining his Recommended ranking for ‘Transactions’.
In addition, our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners, continues to be ranked as a leading Intellectual Property Practice, with Pauline Khor recognised as a leading individual for the Enforcement and Litigation, Prosecution and Strategy and Transactions categories in the same publication.
WTR 1000 is a directory dedicated to identifying the world’s leading trademark legal service providers.
For more information, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice continues to be ranked Tier 1 in the categories of Patents and Copyright & Trademarks in the latest Intellectual Property Rankings 2024 by Asian Legal Business.
In addition to this, our associate firm Rahmat Lim & Partners, as well as our Vietnam office, continues to be ranked in both the Patents and Copyright & Trademarks categories in the same report.
The rankings are based on information drawn from firm submissions, Thomson Reuters data, interviews, editorial resources and market suggestions to identify and rank the top firms for Intellectual Property in Asia.
For more information, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill’s Litigation Department continues to receive top tier rankings in the practice areas covered by Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific 2024.
In the review conducted by Benchmark, our Firm continues to be ranked Tier 1, or named as a highly recommended practice in the categories of Commercial and Transactions, Construction, Insolvency, Intellectual Property, International Arbitration, Labour and Employment, Private Client, Shipping, and White Collar Crime. We have also maintained our rankings in the Family and Matrimonial category.
In addition, 21 lawyers have been ranked as Litigation Stars and six lawyers ranked as Future Stars.
Rahmat Lim & Partners, our associate firm in Malaysia, have maintained their rankings in the categories of Commercial and Transactions, Competition/antitrust, Construction, Intellectual Property, Labour and Employment, and Shipping. On top of the practice rankings, two lawyers have been ranked as Litigation Stars and another as a Future Star.
Benchmark exclusively covers the litigation and disputes market, researchers conduct extensive interview with litigators, dispute resolution specialists and their clients to identify the world’s leading litigation firms and lawyers.
We are pleased to announce that 14 of our lawyers have been named in "The 2024 A List". The A List was compiled based on research by Asia Business Law Journal and recognises the top 100 lawyers who are practising in Singapore including those from local, regional, and international firms.
We are grateful to be acknowledged for the work we have done and would like to thank our clients for entrusting us with their matters.
We dedicate this result to their relentless support over the years and will continue to deliver excellent legal services as we build on the close ties, we have forged with each of them.
Please also join us in congratulating the following lawyers for being named in The 2024 A List.
They are:
Allen & Gledhill has once again been ranked as one of the world’s top data practices by Global Data Review in its annual GDR 100 rankings (2024). This is the third time that we have been ranked by GDR in its annual rankings.
Firms are ranked based on a number of factors, including capabilities, track record, and market reputation of the leading firms in the field.
For more information about our Cybersecurity & Data Protection Practice, please click here.
We are pleased to announce that 57 of our lawyers have been recognised in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in Singapore.
Five of our lawyers have also been recognised as "Lawyer of the Year" in their respective practice areas.
In addition, our Firm has the most number of recognised lawyers of any firm in The Best Lawyers in Singapore for the following five practice areas:
- Banking and Finance - 11 lawyers
- Capital Markets Law - 8 lawyers
- Corporate Law - 9 lawyers
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law - 9 lawyers
- Real Estate Law - 9 lawyers
Please also join us in congratulating the following lawyers for being recognised by The Best Lawyers in Singapore.
The Best Lawyers in Singapore (2025 Edition)
- Vivian Ang
- Andrew Chan
- Christine Chan
- Jason Chan, SC
- Elsa Chen
- Sunit Chhabra
- Margaret Chin
- Christian Chin
- Chong Yee Leong
- Chong Boon Leong
- Allen Choong
- Scott Clements
- Dinesh Dhillon
- Fock Kah Yan
- Penny Goh
- Ho Chien Mien
- Eugene Ho
- Ho Kin San
- Hoo Sheau Farn
- Mark Hudspeth
- Sathiaseelan Jagateesan
- Jerry Koh
- Christopher Koh
- Kok Chee Wai
- Dr Stanley Lai, SC
- Lee Kim Shin, SC
- Aaron Lee
- Gina Lee-Wan
- Andrew M. Lim
- Lim Wei Ting
- Lim Teong Sit
- Lim Mei Ann
- Lim Pek Bur
- Low Pei Lin
- Lim Mei
- Francis Mok
- Jafe Ng
- William Ong
- Christina Ong
- Christopher Ong
- Sanjiv Kumar Rajan
- Patricia Seet
- Daren Shiau
- Soh Yin Chuin
- Corina Song
- Tan Tze Gay
- Tan Su May
- Eudora Tan
- Ernest Teo
- Tham Kok Leong
- Sharon Wee
- Lyn Wee
- Yeo Wico
- Prawiro Widjaja
- Kelvin Wong
- Andrew Yeo
- Richard Young
"Lawyer of the Year" Awards (2025 Edition)
- Penny Goh - Real Estate Law
- Lee Kim Shin, SC - Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Lim Pek Bur - Trusts and Estates
- Lim Mei - Corporate Law
- Daren Shiau - Competition / Antitrust Law
We are thankful to have been recognised for the work we have done, and would like to thank our clients for putting their trust and nominating our lawyers.
Allen & Gledhill has been ranked as one of the world’s top international arbitration practices by Global Arbitration Review in its annual GAR 100 rankings (17th edition) for the 12th consecutive year.
Firms are ranked based on a number of factors, including track record, value of current portfolio as counsel, number of arbitral hearings and the number of arbitrator appointments a firm’s members are handling over a two-year period.
For more information about our International Arbitration Practice, please click here.
We are pleased to announce that our Partner Tham Kok Leong has been recognised in the Asia Super 50 TMT Lawyers 2024 list by Asian Legal Business.
This list showcases the top lawyers in the region’s fast-growing technology, media, and telecommunications practices.
For more information, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has been named National Law Firm of the Year (Singapore) at the prestigious International Financial Law Review (IFLR) Asia-Pacific Awards 2024 on 20 March 2024.
This is the 23rd time our Firm has won the country law firm award for Singapore, since the inception of the IFLR Asia-Pacific Awards in 2000.
In addition, we have been recognised for our expertise and involvement in the following Specialised Award and Deal of the Year Awards:
- Specialised Award: Digital Finance Award – APAC headquartered
- High-yield Deal of the Year (PT Medco Energi Internasional)
- Project Finance Deal of the Year (Monsoon Wind Project)
Further, our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners, has been named National Law Firm of the Year (Malaysia), and was recognised for their involvement in the Equity Deal of the Year (J&T Express IPO).
The IFLR Asia-Pacific Awards recognises the region’s most innovative deals, and the firms that worked on them. First published in 1982, IFLR is a market-leading financial law publication for lawyers specialising in international finance in finance institutions, corporates and in private practice.
Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice has once again achieved Tier 1 in the Asia IP Copyright Survey 2024 Rankings.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners have also maintained their Tier 1 ranking in the same survey.
For more information on our rankings, please click here.
The Allen & Gledhill network, collectively known as A&G Asia, continues to be recognised as a leading law firm in the region in the latest rankings released by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024. Our Firm continues to have the highest number of Tier 1 practice rankings and lawyers recognised as Hall of Fame or Leading Individuals, Next Generation Partners or Rising Stars. This year, a total of 20 Practice Areas have been ranked Tier 1 in Singapore. In addition, 49 lawyers have been ranked compared to 45 from last year. For more information about the rankings of Allen & Gledhill (Singapore), please click here.
Our associate firm, Rahmat Lim & Partners, continues to be ranked Tier 1 across five practices, namely Banking and finance, Corporate and M&A, Real estate and construction, Projects and energy as well as Capital markets which improved in ranking from Tier 2. Additionally, 15 lawyers have been named as Hall of Fame Individuals, Leading Individuals, Next Generation Partners or Rising Stars. For more information about the rankings of Rahmat Lim & Partners, please click here.
Our Myanmar office to be ranked Tier 1 in Corporate and M&A, and is ranked Tier 2 in Projects, the only two categories covered for local firms in Myanmar. Additionally, two lawyers have been named as Leading Individuals. For more information about the rankings of Allen & Gledhill (Myanmar), please click here.
Our Vietnam office continues to be ranked in Corporate and M&A, and Projects and energy. For more information about the rankings of Allen & Gledhill (Vietnam), please click here.
The Legal 500 Asia Pacific is one of the top legal publications which provide unbiased commentary and insight into the legal marketplaces of 25 Asia Pacific jurisdictions. The rankings reflect the results of detailed analysis of law firm submissions and thousands of interviews with GCs and private practice lawyers, and is conducted by a team of experienced researchers.
The Allen & Gledhill network, collectively known as A&G Asia, continues to maintain its leading position in the region in the latest rankings released by Chambers and Partners.
Singapore
Our Firm continues to have the highest number of Band 1 practice rankings and recognised lawyers in the country in the Chambers Asia-Pacific 2024 edition. In total, we have received 18 Band 1 practice rankings, with 71 lawyers recognised by the publication. Of the lawyers who were recognised, 24 were ranked Band 1 or as an exceptional individual (Senior Statesperson/Star Individual/Eminent Practitioner).
Additionally, our Firm was ranked Band 1 in the 2024 edition of the Chambers FinTech Guide released earlier this month with one Partner ranked in the top band.
Malaysia
Our associate firm, Rahmat Lim & Partners, continues to perform well in the rankings, with four Band 1 practice rankings (Banking & Finance, Corporate/M&A, Projects, Infrastructure & Energy, and Real Estate) and 15 recognised lawyers. Of the recognised lawyers, one was ranked as an Eminent Practitioner and three were ranked Band 1.
Myanmar
Our Myanmar office continues to be ranked Band 1 in General Business Law in Myanmar with two recognised lawyers. Of the recognised lawyers, one was ranked Band 1.
Indonesia
Our associate firm, AGI Legal, has two recognised lawyers. Of the recognised lawyers, one was ranked Band 1.
For more information on our rankings, please click here.
2023
Allen & Gledhill continues to be ranked in the top band of “Elite” by Global Competition Review (GCR) in its GCR100 2024 listing of the world’s top competition practices. Our Competition & Foreign Investment Review Practice is regarded as a “top notch competition practice”, and has been ranked in the top band since GCR began covering Singapore as a jurisdiction in 2013.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners, continues to be recognised as a “Recommended” firm in the 2024 edition of GCR100.
GCR is a leading antitrust and competition law journal and news service published by Law Business Research.
For more information about our Competition & Foreign Investment Review Practice, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has been ranked as one of the world’s top Restructuring & Insolvency practices by Global Restructuring Review (GRR) in its seventh edition of GRR 100 rankings. This is the fourth time that we have been ranked by GRR in its annual rankings.
The GRR 100 is an annual guide to the world’s leading cross-border restructuring and insolvency practices.
For more information about our Restructuring & Insolvency practice, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice continues to be recognised as a leading practice for Patent work by Asia IP, with a Tier 1 ranking for both Patent Contentious and Patent Prosecution in their 2023 Patent Rankings.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners has maintained their rankings, and were ranked Tier 1 for Patent Contentious and Tier 2 for Patent Prosecution in the same survey.
For more information on our rankings, please click here.
We are pleased to announce that Partner and Co-Head of our Maritime & Aviation Practice Kenny Yap has been recognised as one of the top 10 maritime lawyers in 2023 by Lloyd’s List.
Kenny is the only lawyer from Singapore and South-east Asia to have been recognised in the list.
The Lloyd’s List Top 10 Maritime Lawyers is an annual shortlist of the most prominent legal professionals in the maritime industry.
For more information, please click here.
We are pleased to announce that in 2023, our lawyers from the Allen & Gledhill network, collectively known as A&G Asia, continue to be recognised as leading individuals by Who’s Who Legal (WWL), according to their various rankings.
In total, our lawyers were recognised times 121 across 28 practice categories. A total of 62 unique individuals from A&G Asia have been ranked by WWL, and 22 of these individuals were recognised as Global Elite Thought Leaders or Thought Leaders.
Global Elite Thought Leaders and Thought Leaders are defined by WWL as individuals who are “worthy of special mention owing not only to their vast expertise and experience advising on some of the world’s most significant and cutting-edge legal matters, but also their ability to innovate, inspire, and go above and beyond to deliver for their clients.”
In addition, our Partner, Vivian Ang, was named Lawyer of the Year for Shipping at the WWL Awards 2023 which took place in London on 9 November 2023. This is the third time that Vivian has won this award, having previously been awarded in 2020 and 2021.
WWL is one of the world’s leading directories of legal practitioners and non-lawyer consulting experts, and the WWL Awards commends the very best lawyers and firms in the international legal market across various practice areas and industries. Individuals who score the highest recommendation in the research conducted by WWL will be named as WWL Lawyer or Expert of the Year.
Further to our recognition in WWL, seven of our Partners from A&G Asia, Tan Wee Meng, Liew Wan Lin, Nicholas Soh, Shalene Jin, Allen Choong, Jonathan Lin, and Tran Thi Phuong Thao, have been announced as winners in their respective practice areas, in the Lexology Client Choice Awards 2024.
The Client Choice Awards recognises firms and lawyers that stand apart for the excellent client care they provide and the quality of their service. Nominations for the Client Choice Awards are only open to in-house counsel, and the winners are chosen following more than 2,000 responses worldwide.
For more information on our rankings, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill’s White Collar & Investigations Practice has been ranked as one of the world’s top investigations practices for the sixth consecutive year by Global Investigations Review (GIR) in its annual GIR 100 2023 rankings.
The GIR 100 is an annual guide to the world’s leading cross-border investigations practices. The guide aims to determine the top 100 firms from around the world which handle sophisticated cross-border government-led and internal investigations.
For more information about our rankings, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has been recognised for its involvement in eight winning deals and four highly commended deals at the FinanceAsia Achievement Awards 2023.
The winning deals are:
- Best Bond Deal – Singapore: Temasek’s €1.5 billion dual-tranche 4-year and 10-year senior unsecured notes
- Best Equity Deal – Singapore: SATS's S$798.8 million rights issue in connection with acquisition of WFS Group
- Best Infrastructure Deal – Singapore: Bayfront Infrastructure’s US$410.3 million infrastructure securitisation
- Best M&A Deal – Singapore: S$13.2 billion combination of Keppel Offshore & Marine and Sembcorp Marine
- Best Private Equity Deal – Singapore: HMI Group’s acquisition of MHC Asia
- Best Project Finance Deal – Singapore: Bayfront Infrastructure’s US$410.3 million infrastructure securitisation
- Best Sustainable Finance Deal – Singapore: Bayfront Infrastructure’s US$410.3 million infrastructure securitisation
- Best Venture Capital Deal – Singapore: Openspace Ventures’ investment in Pickup Coffee’s $40 million funding round
The highly commended deals are:
- Best Equity Deal – Singapore: CapitaLand Ascendas REIT’s S$500 million private placement
- Best M&A Deal – Singapore: SATS' €1.19 billion cash acquisition of Worldwide Flight Services
- Best Structured Finance Deal – Singapore: Bayfront Infrastructure’s US$410.3 million infrastructure securitisation
- Best Sustainable Finance Deal – Singapore: The Government of Singapore's S$2.8 billion 3.00% green bonds
In addition, Partner Chua Bor Jern was named Best Legal Advisor in Singapore in the Dealmaker Poll category. Introduced this year, the Dealmaker Poll gathers nominations from third-parties and recognises individuals who have been instrumental in closing the region’s most ambitious deals.
The FinanceAsia Achievement Awards is FinanceAsia’s annual end-of-year awards that recognises excellence and in bringing issuers and investors together who are developing Asia Pacific’s financial markets.
Allen & Gledhill has once again been recognised as one of the top law firms in Singapore, according to The Straits Times in its “Singapore’s Best Law Firms 2024” survey.
We would like to thank our clients and friends for their unwavering support, as well as their confidence and trust in our Firm.
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Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice won the Singapore Trademarks Firm of the Year award at the recent Asia IP Awards 2023.
The 14th edition of the Asia IP Awards was held on 2 November 2023 at CHIJMES in Singapore, and recognised top trademarks, patents and copyright practices as determined by in-house counsel from Asia, Europe and the Americas.
For more information on the Asia IP Awards 2023, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill’s Mergers & Acquisitions Practice continues to be ranked Tier 1 in the Singapore Domestic firm category of the Asia M&A Rankings 2023 report released by Asian Legal Business.
In the same report, our associate firm Rahmat Lim & Partners has maintained its Tier 1 ranking in Malaysia. Our Vietnam office has also maintained its ranking in the Vietnam category.
The rankings are based on information drawn from firm submissions, Thomson Reuters M&A data, interviews, editorial resources and market suggestions to identify and rank the top firms for M&A in Asia.
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Allen & Gledhill has maintained its Tier 1 ranking for the Singapore category of World Tax 2024. We continue to be the only Singapore law firm ranked in this tier.
Our Partners, Sunit Chhabra and Lim Pek Bur, are also recognised in the guide. Sunit Chhabra is ranked as ‘Highly Regarded’ in the General Corporate Tax and Tax Controversy categories, while Lim Pek Bur is ranked as ‘Highly Regarded’ in the Indirect Tax and Women in Tax categories.
World Tax is produced in association with the International Tax Review, providing rankings and profiles of the most effective tax practitioners in more than 100 jurisdictions globally.
For more information on our rankings, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice has once again been recognised as a top tier firm for IP Transactions and maintained its ranking as a leading firm in the Copyright & Related Rights category of the IP STARS 2023 firm rankings, released by Managing IP.
For more information on our rankings, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill continues to be recognised as a Tier 1 firm by IFLR1000 Asia-Pacific 2023. We continue to be the only Singapore firm ranked Tier 1 across all local practices, with the most number of recognised lawyers in Singapore. In total, 77 of our lawyers are named, with four lawyers recognised as Market Leaders, 20 as Highly Regarded, 49 as Notable Practitioners, and four as Rising Star Partners.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners, continues to be ranked Tier 1 for Banking and finance, M&A, Project Development: Energy and Project Development: Infrastructure. They also have 18 recognised lawyers, with one recognised as a Market Leader, 13 named as Highly Regarded, two as Rising Star Partners, one as Rising Star and one as a Notable Practitioner.
Our Myanmar office continues to be ranked Tier 1 in Financial and corporate and Tier 2 in Project development. Additionally, two Directors from our Myanmar office have also been recognised as Highly Regarded and as a Notable Practitioner respectively.
Our Vietnam office has also been newly recognised for the first time in both M&A and Project development. The Managing Partner of our Vietnam office has also been newly ranked as Highly Regarded in this edition of the rankings.
For more information on our rankings, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill continues to be recognised as a leading law firm in South-east Asia in the latest Who’s Who Legal: Southeast Asia 2023 guide.
Our Firm was credited with the most number of listings, across the most number of practice areas in South-east Asia. In total, our lawyers were listed 102 times across 27 practice areas, with many being lauded for their dedication and experience.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners, was credited with 6 listings across 4 practice areas.
Who’s Who Legal: Southeast Asia 2023 is an in-depth guide to the region's legal marketplace, highlighting the top lawyers and experts across over 30 areas of business law.
Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice has been recognised in the latest edition of the IAM Patent 1000 rankings. Our Intellectual Property Practice has maintained the rank of “Gold” in the Litigation category, “Silver” in the Prosecution category, and "Recommended” in the Transactions category, and our Partners Dr Stanley Lai, SC, Low Pei Lin, and Tham Kok Leong continue to be recognised as leading individuals in the Litigation, Prosecution and Transactions categories respectively.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners were also ranked “Bronze” in the Litigation category, and continues to be listed as a recommended firm in the Prosecution category. Our Partner Pauline Khor is also recognised as a top lawyer in both the individual categories of Litigation and Prosecution.
IAM Patent 1000 is a directory dedicated to identifying the world’s leading patent professionals.
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We are pleased to announce that our Partners Chong Yee Leong and Dinesh Dhillon have been recognised in the Asia Super 50 Disputes Lawyers 2023 list by Asian Legal Business.
This list spotlights the most highly recommended arbitration and litigation practitioners based in the Asian region.
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Allen & Gledhill’s Private Wealth Practice and Investment Funds Practice have been recognised in the 2023 edition of Chambers High Net Worth, under the Family Offices & Funds Structuring category. This is the first time our Firm has been recognised in the guide.
The Chambers High Net Worth guide ranks leading law firms, lawyers, and professional advisers in private wealth management work and related specialisms around the world.
For more information, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice has maintained its top tier rankings in the Patent Disputes and Patent Prosecution categories of the IP Stars 2023 rankings released by Managing IP.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners, has also been recognised as a leading firm in the same categories.
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We are pleased to announce that our Partner Jason Chan, SC has been recognised in the inaugural list of Southeast Asia’s Top 15 Litigators 2023 by Asian Legal Business.
This list celebrates the leading litigators and most impactful disputes across the region of Southeast Asia.
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Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice has maintained its Tier 1 rankings for Trademark Contentious and Trademark Prosecution in the 2023 Asia IP Trademark Survey.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners have also maintained their Tier 1 rankings for the Trademark Contentious category in the same survey.
For more information on our rankings, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill’s Litigation Department continues to receive top tier rankings in the latest edition of Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific 2023. In addition, 18 of our Partners have been ranked as Litigation Stars, with another five Partners ranked as Future Stars in the same guide.
According to Benchmark, our Firm continues to be ranked Tier 1 in the categories of Commercial and Transactions, Insolvency, International Arbitration – Domestic firms, Intellectual Property, Labour and Employment, and Shipping. We have also maintained our Highly Recommended ranking in the White Collar Crime category.
We are also happy to announce that we have achieved a higher ranking in following three categories:
- Construction - Tier 1 (Tier 2 in 2022)
- Family and Matrimonial - Tier 2 (Tier 3 in 2022)
- Private Client - Highly Recommended (Recommended in 2022)
Rahmat Lim & Partners, our associate firm in Malaysia, has also managed to achieve a higher ranking in the areas of Construction, Labour and Employment, and Commercial and Transactions. They have also maintained their ranking for Competition/Antitrust, Intellectual Property and Shipping. The guide has also ranked two Partners as a Litigation Stars and another as a Future Star.
Benchmark exclusively covers the litigation and disputes market and the latest edition of the guide is based on research conducted for work completed in 2022. As part of this, researchers conduct extensive interview with litigators, dispute resolution specialists, and their clients to identify the world’s leading litigation firms and lawyers.
Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice continues to be ranked Tier 1 in the categories of Patents and Copyright & Trademarks in the latest Intellectual Property Rankings 2023 by Asian Legal Business.
In addition to this, our associate firm Rahmat Lim & Partners, as well as our Vietnam office, continues to be ranked in both the Patents and Copyright & Trademarks categories in the same report.
The rankings are based on information drawn from firm submissions, Thomson Reuters data, interviews, editorial resources and market suggestions to identify and rank the top firms for Intellectual Property in Asia.
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Allen & Gledhill has been recognised for its involvement in two Impact Cases of the Year at the Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific Awards 2023:
- IP Investment Management & IP Real Estate Investments (IP Group) v former employee of IP Group - Singapore’s first civil court action for personal data breaches in the local courts
- PDV Marina wind-up
Benchmark Litigation awards are judged according to innovation, complexity and impact. Winners are chosen according to research conducted through extensive interviews with litigators, dispute resolution specialists and their clients to identify the leading litigators and firms. The awards celebrate leading litigators and most impactful disputes across Asia-Pacific based upon the information captured in the submission for the latest edition of Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific. It is aimed at those who have displayed outstanding achievement in advising clients on local law matters, across a range of practice areas.
Allen & Gledhill secured six awards at the ALB SE Asia Law Awards 2023, which took place in Singapore on Tuesday, 23 May.
The awards that we received are:
- Deal Firm of the Year
- Banking and Financial Services Law Firm of the Year
- Maritime Law Firm of the Year
- Real Estate Law Firm of the Year
In addition, we were also recognised for our involvement in two Deals of the Year at the awards:
- Debt Market Deal of the Year (Midsize) – Bayfront Infrastructure Issuance of Infrastructure Asset Backed Securities
- Equity Market Deal of the Year (Premium) – Emperador Secondary Listing on SGX
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners were also recognised for their involvement in the M&A Deal of the Year (Premium).
The ALB SE Asia Law Awards is an annual event celebrating the success of the region’s leading law firms, in-house counsel, dealmakers and deals.
To find out more about the ALB SE Asia Law Awards, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has been named the Singapore Law Firm of the Year at The Legal 500 Southeast Asia Awards 2023 which was held on Thursday, 11 May 2023.
On top of being named Singapore Law Firm of the Year, we were also named Projects and Energy Law Firm of the Year. Our Partners – Vivian Ang, Dr Stanley Lai, SC, and Daren Shiau have additionally been recognised as the Shipping and Transport Lawyer of the Year, Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year, and Antitrust and Competition Lawyer of the Year respectively, further highlighting their thought leadership and expertise in these practice areas.
The Legal 500 Southeast Asia Awards recognise the leading firms, lawyers/barristers and in-house counsels who have contributed to the regional and global markets.
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Allen & Gledhill has been ranked as one of the world’s top international arbitration practices by Global Arbitration Review in its annual GAR 100 rankings (16th edition) for the eleventh consecutive year.
Firms are ranked based on a number of factors, including track record, value of current portfolio as counsel, number of arbitral hearings and the number of arbitrator appointments a firm’s members are handling over a two-year period.
For more information about our International Arbitration Practice, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has won the Singapore Corporate & Finance Domestic Law Advisers of the Year award at the Chambers Asia Pacific and Greater China Region Awards 2023.
This is the fourth consecutive time Allen & Gledhill has won this Award, and the eighth time our Firm has received this recognition from Chambers and Partners, the most among Singapore law firms, since the inception of the Awards in 2010.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners, has also won the Malaysia Law Firm of the Year award for the first time.
The Chambers Asia Pacific and Greater China Region Awards recognise a law firm’s pre-eminence in key jurisdictions in the region and also reflect notable achievements over the past 12 months, including outstanding work, impressive strategic growth and excellence in client service. They honour the work of national and international law firms across the region based on the research carried out for the recent edition of the Chambers Asia-Pacific guide.
Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice has maintained its top tier rankings in the Trade mark Disputes and Trade mark Prosecution categories of the IP Stars 2023 rankings released by Managing IP.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners, has also been recognised as a leading firm in the same categories.
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Allen & Gledhill's Competition & Antitrust Practice has once again been recognised as the top competition practice in the region, after being named Regional Law Firm of the Year – Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa at the Global Competition Review (GCR) Awards 2023. We also won the Merger Control Matter of the Year – Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa (Korean Air/Asiana Airlines). The results were announced at the awards ceremony in Washington, DC on Tuesday, 28 March 2023. This is the second time Allen & Gledhill has won the Regional Law Firm of the Year award after first clinching the award in 2019. Allen & Gledhill is also the only South-east Asian law firm to have ever received this award.
The Regional Law Firm of the Year award is based on peer and client nominations and recognises a firm based solely in Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa on the basis of having an outstandingly successful 2022 in terms of the quality and quantity of its competition work.
GCR is a leading antitrust and competition law journal and news service published by Law Business Research. Now in its 13th year, the awards by GCR honours the world’s top antitrust lawyers, academics, economists and government enforcers for their competition work in 2018.
Allen & Gledhill has been named National Law Firm of the Year (Singapore) at the prestigious International Financial Law Review (IFLR) Asia-Pacific Awards on 22 March.
This is the 22nd time the Firm has won the country law firm award for Singapore, since the inception of the IFLR Asia-Pacific Awards in 2000.
Further to the Firm award, we have been recognised for our involvement in the following Deal of the Year Award:
- Securitisation and structured finance (Astrea 7 ABS Issuance)
This is the 2nd consecutive year we have been recognised for this deal award. In 2022, we were recognised for our involvement in the Securitisation and Structured Finance Deal of the Year (Bayfront ABS Issuance).
The IFLR Asia-Pacific Awards recognises the region’s most innovative deals, and the firms that worked on them. First published in 1982, IFLR is a market-leading financial law publication for lawyers specialising in international finance and finance institutions, corporates and in private practice.
Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice won the Singapore Patent Firm of the Year award for Singapore at the recent Asia IP Awards 2022.
Additionally, the Practice has once again achieved Tier 1 ranking in the Asia IP Copyright Survey for 2023. Our associate Firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners was also ranked Tier 1 in the same survey.
For more information on the Asia IP Awards 2022, please click here.
For more information on the Asia IP Copyright Survey 2023 rankings, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has been recognised in the inaugural list for Asia's Top 15 ESG Law Firms 2023 by Asian Legal Business.
The list spotlights law firms that have delivered exceptional legal services to businesses by addressing ESG considerations while achieving long-term prosperity.
For more information on the Asia's Top 15 ESG Law Firms 2023 list, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice has once again been recognised as a top tier firm in the areas of Enforcement and Litigation as well as Prosecution and Strategy by WTR 1000 in their 2023 rankings. Notably, in the category of Enforcement and Litigation, our Firm has moved up from Silver to Gold.
Our Firm’s Partners, also continue to be recognised as leading individuals in WTR 1000 2023. Dr Stanley Lai, SC has moved up in his ranking from Silver to Gold in the category of Enforcement and Litigation, while Vignesh Vaerhn has been ranked for the first time in the categories of Enforcement and Litigation, and Prosecution and Strategy. Low Pei Lin and Tham Kok Leong have also maintained their rankings as leading individuals in the categories of Prosecution and Strategy and Transactions respectively.
In addition, our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners, has been ranked as a leading Intellectual Property Practice, with Partner Pauline Khor recognised as a leading individual for Prosecution and Strategy in the same publication.
WTR 1000 is a directory dedicated to identifying the world’s leading trademark legal service providers.
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Allen & Gledhill and its network firms continue to be recognised as leading law firms in South-east Asia in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2023. Our Firm continues to have the highest number of Tier 1 practice rankings and lawyers ranked as Hall of Fame or Leading Individuals, Next Generation Partners or Rising Stars. This year, 44 lawyers are ranked compared to 40 from last year. For more information about the rankings of Allen & Gledhill (Singapore), please click here.
Our associate firm, Rahmat Lim & Partners, continues to be ranked Tier 1 across five practices, namely Banking and finance, Corporate and M&A, Labour and employment, Real estate and construction as well as Projects and energy. They have also improved on their ranking in the Shipping category and were ranked Tier 2. Additionally, nine lawyers are ranked as Hall of Fame or Leading Individuals, or as Next Generation Partners. For more information about the rankings of Rahmat Lim & Partners, please click here.
Our Myanmar office continues to be ranked Tier 1 in Corporate and M&A as well as Projects, the only two categories covered for local firms in Myanmar. Managing Director, Minn Naing Oo, continues to be ranked as a Leading Individual in the two categories. Director, Oh Hsiu-Hau continues to be ranked as a Leading Individual in the area of Corporate and M&A, and also continues to be recognised as a Recommended individual in Projects. For more information about the rankings of Allen & Gledhill (Myanmar), please click here.
Our network firm, Soemadipradja & Taher continues to be ranked Tier 1 in Dispute resolution as well as Labour and employment. Additionally, they have five individuals ranked as Hall of Fame or Leading Individuals, or as Rising Stars. For more information about the rankings of Soemadipradja & Taher, please click here.
Our Vietnam office is ranked for the first time in Corporate and M&A, and Projects and energy, despite only being established in October 2020. For more information about the rankings of Allen & Gledhill (Vietnam), please click here.
The Legal 500 Asia Pacific is one of the top legal publications which provide unbiased commentary and insight into the legal marketplaces of 25 Asia Pacific jurisdictions. The rankings reflect the results of detailed analysis of law firm submissions and thousands of interviews with GCs and private practice lawyers, and is conducted by a team of experienced researchers.
2022
Allen & Gledhill continues to be ranked in the top band of “Elite” by Global Competition Review (GCR) in its GCR100 2023 listing of the world’s top competition practices. Our Competition & Antitrust Practice is “one of the region’s largest dedicated in-house competition economics teams”, and has been ranked in the top band since GCR began covering Singapore as a jurisdiction in 2013.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners, continues to be recognised as a “Recommended” firm in the 2023 edition of GCR100.
GCR is a leading antitrust and competition law journal and news service published by Law Business Research.
For more information about our Competition & Antitrust Practice, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has once again been ranked as one of the world’s top data practices by Global Data Review in its annual GDR 100 rankings (2023).
Firms are ranked based on a number of factors, including capabilities, track record, and market reputation of the leading firms in the field.
For more information about our Cybersecurity & Data Protection Practice, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill continues to maintain its leading position in South-east Asia in the latest rankings released by Chambers and Partners.
Singapore
Our Firm continues to have the highest number of Band 1 practice rankings and recognised lawyers in the country in the Chambers Asia-Pacific 2023 edition. In total, we have received 18 Band 1 practice rankings, with 62 lawyers recognised by the publication. Of the lawyers who were recognised, 23 were ranked Band 1 or as an exceptional individual (Senior Statesperson/Star/Eminent Practitioner).
Additionally, our Firm was ranked Band 1 in the 2023 edition of the Chambers FinTech Guide released earlier this month with our Partner ranked in the top band.
Malaysia
Our associate firm, Rahmat Lim & Partners, continues to perform well in the rankings, with four Band 1 practice rankings (Banking & Finance, Corporate/M&A, Projects, Infrastructure & Energy, and Real Estate) and 13 recognised lawyers. Of the recognised lawyers, three were ranked Band 1.
Myanmar
Our Myanmar office continues to be ranked Band 1 in General Business Law in Myanmar with two recognised lawyers.
Indonesia
Our network firm, Soemadipradja & Taher, continues to maintain its rankings, with a Band 1 practice ranking in Dispute Resolution. They have six recognised lawyers, with two ranked Band 1 or as an exceptional individual. In addition, Allen & Gledhill has maintained its ranking in the country under the Corporate & Finance (International Firms) (Expertise Based Abroad) category.
For more information on our rankings, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice continues to be recognised as a leading practice for Patent work by Asia IP, with a Tier 1 ranking for both Patent Contentious and Patent Prosecution in their 2022 Patent Rankings.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners has maintained their rankings, and were ranked Tier 1 for Patent Contentious and Tier 2 ranking for Patent Prosecution in the same survey.
For more information on our rankings, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill is pleased to announce that five Partners have been featured in the latest edition of the IFLR Asia Best Lawyers guide, which identifies the top individual legal practitioners who have received the highest and most consistent praise from their peers and clients.
You may view their profiles by clicking on their names below:
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We are pleased to announce that our Partner Dr Stanley Lai, SC has been named as one of Asia’s Top 15 Intellectual Property Lawyers in 2022 by Asian Legal Business.
This list highlights the achievements of Intellectual Property lawyers across Asia who have consistently delivered high-quality Intellectual Property work and set high standards in the Intellectual Property space, in addition to earning accolades from their colleagues, superiors and clients.
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We are pleased to announce that our Mergers & Acquisitions Practice continues to be ranked Tier 1 in the Singapore domestic firm category of the M&A Rankings 2022 report released by Asian Legal Business. Our Vietnam office has also been ranked for the first time in the Vietnam category.
In the same report, our associate firm Rahmat Lim & Partners has maintained its Tier 1 ranking in Malaysia, and our network firm, Soemadipradja & Taher has maintained its Tier 2 ranking in Indonesia.
The rankings are based on information drawn from firm submissions, Thomson Reuters M&A data, interviews, editorial resources and market suggestions to identify and rank the top firms for M&A in Asia.
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Allen & Gledhill has maintained its Tier 1 ranking for the Singapore category of World Tax 2023. We are the only Singapore law firm ranked in this tier.
Our lawyers, Sunit Chhabra and Lim Pek Bur, are also recognised in World Tax 2023. Sunit Chhabra is ranked as ‘Highly Regarded’ in the General Corporate Tax and Tax Controversy categories, while Lim Pek Bur is ranked as ‘Highly Regarded’ in the Indirect Tax and Women in Tax categories.
World Tax is produced in association with the International Tax Review, providing rankings and profiles of the most effective tax practitioners in more than 100 jurisdictions globally.
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Allen & Gledhill’s Mergers & Acquisitions and Restructuring & Insolvency Practices have been ranked as Tier 1 practices according to the final group of rankings released by IFLR1000. Individually, our Firm also has the most number of recognised lawyers across all practices in Singapore. In total, 70 of our lawyers are named, with 3 lawyers recognised as Market Leaders, 17 as Highly Regarded, 49 as Notable Practitioners, and 1 as a Rising Star Partner. 2 lawyers from our Myanmar office have also been ranked as Highly Regarded and another 2 have been recognised as Notable Practitioners.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners, continues to be ranked Tier 1 for Mergers & Acquisitions. They also have 18 recognised lawyers, with 14 named as Highly Regarded, 2 as Rising Star Partners and 2 recognised as Notable Practitioners.
Our network firm in Indonesia, Soemadipradja & Taher, continues to be recognised as a top tier firm for Mergers & Acquisitions and Restructuring & Insolvency. They also have 2 lawyers ranked as Highly Regarded.
For more information on our rankings, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice has once again been recognised as a top tier firm for IP transactions and maintained its ranking as a leading firm in the Copyright & related rights category of the IP STARS 2022 firm rankings, released by Managing IP.
For more information on our rankings, please click here.
We are pleased to announce that our Firm’s Energy, Infrastructure & Projects Practice continues to be ranked Tier 1 in the Project development category, according to the latest rankings released by IFLR1000. Allen & Gledhill (Myanmar) have also maintained its Tier 1 ranking for Financial and corporate and Tier 2 ranking for Project development.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners, continues to be ranked Tier 1 in the categories of Project development: Energy, and Project development: Infrastructure.
Our network firm in Indonesia, Soemadipradja & Taher, have also maintained its ranking as a top tier firm for Project Development.
IFLR1000 has been producing legal market intelligence since 1990 and remains the only international legal directory dedicated to ranking law firms and lawyers on the basis of financial and corporate transactional work.
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Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice has been recognised in the latest edition of the IAM Patent 1000 rankings. Our Intellectual Property Practice has been ranked “Gold” in the Litigation category, “Silver” in the Prosecution category, and "Recommended” in the Transaction category, and our Partners Dr Stanley Lai, SC, Low Pei Lin, and Tham Kok Leong continue to be recognised as leading individuals in the Litigation, Prosecution and Transaction categories respectively.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners were also ranked “Bronze” in the Litigation category, and continues to be listed as a recommended firm in the Prosecution category. Partner Pauline Khor is also recognised as a top lawyer in both the individual categories of Litigation and Prosecution.
IAM Patent 1000 is a directory dedicated to identifying the world’s leading patent professionals.
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The Allen & Gledhill network continues to be recognised as leading law firms in South-east Asia in the latest Who’s Who Legal: Southeast Asia 2022 guide. Our Firm was credited with the most number of listings, across the most number of practice areas in South-east Asia for Singapore.
We are recognised as a “top-tier law firm” which possesses “strong presence in Southeast Asia with five offices across the region”. In total, our lawyers were listed 82 times across 25 practice areas, with many being lauded for their dedication and experience.
Who’s Who Legal: Southeast Asia 2022 is an in-depth guide to the region's legal marketplace, highlighting the top lawyers and experts across over 30 areas of business law.
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Allen & Gledhill’s Capital Markets Practice and Investment Funds Practice continues to be ranked Tier 1 in Singapore for Capital Markets: Debt, Capital Markets: Equity, and is the only firm ranked Tier 1 for Investment Funds, according IFLR1000’s Capital Markets and Investment Funds rankings.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners, maintained their Tier 2 ranking for both Capital Markets: Debt and Capital Markets: Equity. Soemadipradja & Taher, our network firm in Indonesia, was recognised as a leading firm for both Capital Markets: Debt and Capital Markets: Equity.
IFLR1000 is the guide to the world's leading financial and corporate law firms and lawyers. They currently research around 170 national jurisdictions and rank law firms and lawyers on the basis of transactional work.
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Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice has maintained its top tier rankings in the Patent Contentious and Patent Prosecution categories of the IP Stars 2022: Patent firm rankings, which was released by Managing IP. In addition to this, our lawyers were also ranked as top Intellectual Property lawyers by the publication. Dr Stanley Lai, SC, was ranked Patent star and Trade mark star, while Low Pei Lin was ranked Patent star.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners, has also been recognised as a leading firm in the same categories, with Pauline Khor being ranked as a Trade mark star.
For more information about our rankings, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill is pleased to be named the Best Law Firm in Singapore for the third consecutive year in the FinanceAsia Country Awards 2022.
FinanceAsia's Country Awards is a series of awards that recognise the best banks, brokers, law firms in Asia’s domestic markets, as well as ratings agencies.
This award recognises outstanding law firms which have undertaken ground-breaking transactions, demonstrated creativity in service to clients, as well as successfully navigated complex regulatory issues across multiple jurisdictions and practice areas.
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Allen & Gledhill has won eight Firm awards, the most of any law firm at the ALB SE Asia Law Awards 2022, which took place in Singapore on Wednesday, 25 May.
The awards that we received are:
- Banking and Financial Services Law Firm of the Year
- International Arbitration Law Firm of the Year
- Maritime Law Firm of the Year
- Private Equity & Venture Capital Law Firm of the Year
- Restructuring & Insolvency Law Firm of the Year
- Singapore Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year
- Singapore Litigation Law Firm of the Year
- Technology, Media and Telecommunications Law Firm of the Year
Our Firm is the first ever recipient of the Private Equity & Venture Capital Law Firm of the Year, and have also won the Litigation Firm of the Year as well as the Technology, Media and Telecommunications Law Firm of the year for the first time at these awards.
The ALB SE Asia Law Awards is an annual event celebrating the success of the region’s leading law firms, in-house counsel, dealmakers and deals.
To find out more about the ALB SE Asia Law Awards, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill’s award winning Banking & Finance Practice continues to be ranked Tier 1 for Banking and Finance according to the latest results released by IFLR1000. In Malaysia, our associate firm, Rahmat Lim & Partners have also maintained their Tier 1 ranking for Banking and Finance. Soemadipradja & Taher, our network firm in Indonesia, were also recognised as a top tier firm for both the Banking as well as Project Finance categories.
IFLR1000 is the guide to the world's leading financial and corporate law firms and lawyers. They currently research around 170 national jurisdictions and rank law firms and lawyers on the basis of transactional work.
For more information about our rankings, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has won two firm awards at the Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific Awards 2022:
- Labour and Employment Firm of the Year
- White-Collar Crime Firm of the Year
Further to the two firm awards, our Firm was also awarded the Impact Case of the Year award.
The results were announced during a virtual awards ceremony on Thursday, 26 May 2022.
Benchmark Litigation awards are judged according to innovation, complexity and impact. Winners are chosen according to research conducted through extensive interviews with litigators, dispute resolution specialists and their clients to identify the leading litigators and firms. The awards celebrate leading litigators and most impactful disputes across Asia-Pacific based upon the information captured in the submission for the latest edition of Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific. It is aimed at those who have displayed outstanding achievement in advising clients on local law matters, across a range of practice areas.
Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice continues to be ranked Tier 1 in the categories of Copyright/Trademarks as well as Patents in the latest ALB Intellectual Property Rankings 2022.
In addition to this, our associate firm, Rahmat Lim & Partners has maintained its Tier 1 ranking in Copyright/Trademark and Tier 2 ranking for Patents in the same report.
We are also pleased to announce that our Vietnam office has also been ranked for the first time in both the Patents and Copyright/Trademarks categories.
The rankings are based on information drawn from firm submissions, Thomson Reuters data, interviews, editorial resources and market suggestions to identify and rank the top firms for Intellectual Property in Asia.
For more information, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice has maintained its Tier 1 rankings for Trademark Contentious and Trademark Prosecution in the 2022 Asia IP Trademark Survey.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners has also climbed up the rankings, achieving Tier 1 ranking for Trademark Contentious in the same survey.
Allen & Gledhill has received top tier rankings in the practice areas covered by Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific 2022. In the review conducted by Benchmark for work completed in 2021, our Firm continues to be ranked Tier 1 in Commercial and Transactions, Insolvency, International Arbitration – Domestic firms, Intellectual Property, Labour and Employment, Shipping, as well as Tier 2 for Construction. We have also maintained our rankings in the Family and Matrimonial as well as the White Collar Crime categories, and were ranked as a recommended practice in the Private Client category.
In addition, 17 Partners have been ranked as Litigation Stars and five Partners ranked as Future Stars.
Rahmat Lim & Partners, our associate firm in Malaysia, has been ranked Tier 2 in Construction and Labour and Employment, as well as Tier 3 in Commercial and Transactions. They have also maintained their ranking for Competition/Antitrust and Shipping. Additionally, they have been newly ranked in the Intellectual Property category. On top of the practice rankings, three Partners have been ranked as a Litigation Stars with another two Partners ranked as Future Stars.
Soemadipradja & Taher, our network firm in Indonesia, continues to be ranked Tier 2 in Commercial and Transactions, with a Partner ranked as a Litigation Star.
Benchmark exclusively covers the litigation and disputes market, researchers conduct extensive interview with litigators, dispute resolution specialists and their clients to identify the world’s leading litigation firms and lawyers.
Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice has once again achieved Tier 1 ranking in the Asia IP Copyright Survey for 2022.
Our associate Firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners was also ranked as a top tier firm in the same survey.
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Allen & Gledhill's Intellectual Property Practice has maintained its top tier rankings in the Trade mark Contentious and Trade mark Prosecution categories of the IP Stars 2022 rankings released by Managing IP.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners, has also been recognised as a leading firm in the same categories.
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Allen & Gledhill has won the Singapore Corporate & Finance Domestic Law Advisers award at the Chambers Asia-Pacific Awards 2022.
This is the third consecutive time Allen & Gledhill has won this Award, and the seventh time our Firm has received this recognition from Chambers and Partners, the most among Singapore law firms, since the inception of the Awards in 2010.
The Chambers Asia-Pacific Awards recognise a law firm’s pre-eminence in key jurisdictions in the region and also reflect notable achievements over the past 12 months, including outstanding work, impressive strategic growth and excellence in client service. They honour the work of national and international law firms across the region based on the research carried out for the recent edition of the Chambers Asia-Pacific guide.
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Allen & Gledhill has been named Regional Law Firm of the Year at the prestigious International Financial Law Review (IFLR) Asia-Pacific Awards. This is the fifth time our Firm has won the regional law firm award, having been the first South-east Asian law firm to receive this award in 2014.
In addition, our Firm has once again been named National Law Firm of the Year (Singapore). Our Firm has won the country law firm award for Singapore 21 times since the inception of the IFLR Asia-Pacific Awards in 2000.
Further to the two firm awards, we have been recognised for our involvement in the Securitisation and Structured Finance Deal of the Year (Bayfront Infrastructure Capital ABS Issuance).
These awards are especially meaningful given that it is our 120th anniversary this year. They are a recognition of our Firm’s leading position in the region; and they highlight our notable achievements, impressive strategic growth and commitment to excellence that have become the hallmark of our Firm.
Results of the awards were announced by IFLR on 17 March.
The IFLR Asia-Pacific Awards recognises the region’s most innovative deals, and the firms that worked on them. First published in 1982, IFLR is a market-leading financial law publication for lawyers specialising in international finance and finance institutions, corporates and in private practice.
Allen & Gledhill has been ranked as one of the world’s top international arbitration practices by Global Arbitration Review in its annual GAR 100 rankings (15th edition) for the tenth consecutive year since 2013.
Firms are ranked based on a number of factors, including track record, value of current portfolio as counsel, number of arbitral hearings and the number of arbitrator appointments a firm’s members are handling over a two-year period.
For more information about our International Arbitration Practice, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice has once again been recognised as a top tier firm in the areas of Enforcement and Litigation as well as Prosecution and Strategy by WTR 1000 in their 2022 rankings. Notably, in the category of Enforcement and Litigation, our Firm has moved up from Bronze to Silver.
Our Firm’s Partners, Dr Stanley Lai, SC and Low Pei Lin have also been recognised as leading individuals in WTR 1000 2022 for Enforcement and Litigation, and Prosecution and Strategy respectively. Separately, our Partner Tham Kok Leong has been ranked for the first time in the category of Transactions.
In addition, our associate Firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners, has been ranked as a leading Intellectual Property Practice, with Partner Pauline Khor recognised as a leading individual for Prosecution and Strategy in the same publication.
WTR 1000 is a directory dedicated to identifying the world’s leading trademark legal service providers.
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Allen & Gledhill has been ranked as one of the world’s top data practices by Global Data Review in its annual GDR 100 rankings (2022).
Firms are ranked based on a number of factors, including capabilities, track record, and market reputation of the leading firms in the field.
For more information about our Cybersecurity & Data Protection Practice, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill and its network firms continue to be recognised as leading law firms in South-east Asia in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2022. Our Firm continues to have the highest number of Tier 1 practice rankings and lawyers recognised as Hall of Fame or Leading Individuals, Next Generation Partners or Rising Stars. This year, 40 lawyers have been ranked compared to 36 from last year. For more information about the rankings of Allen & Gledhill (Singapore), please click here.
Our associate firm, Rahmat Lim & Partners has achieved more Tier 1 rankings this year compared to last year. They continue to be ranked Tier 1 in Banking and finance, Corporate and M&A, Real estate and construction as well as Projects and energy, and have improved on their ranking in the Labour and employment category to Tier 1. Additionally, six lawyers have been named as Hall of Fame or Leading Individuals. For more information about the rankings of Rahmat Lim & Partners, please click here.
Our Myanmar office continues to be ranked Tier 1 in Corporate and M&A as well as Projects, the only two categories covered for local firms in Myanmar. Managing Director, Minn Naing Oo, continues to be named as a Leading Individual in the two categories. Director, Oh Hsiu-Hau continues to be named as a Leading Individual in the area of Corporate and M&A, and has been newly recognised as a Recommended individual in the Projects category. For more information about the rankings of Allen & Gledhill (Myanmar), please click here.
Our network firm, Soemadipradja & Taher continues to be ranked Tier 1 in Dispute resolution as well as Labour and employment. Additionally, they have four individuals named as Hall of Fame or Leading Individuals or as Rising Stars. For more information about the rankings of Soemadipradja & Taher, please click here.
Our Vietnam office has been identified as a Firm to Watch in the Corporate and M&A category, despite being established only in October 2020.
The Legal 500 Asia Pacific is one of the top legal publications which provide unbiased commentary and insight into the legal marketplaces of 25 Asia Pacific jurisdictions. The rankings reflect the results of detailed analysis of law firm submissions and thousands of interviews with GCs and private practice lawyers, and is conducted by a team of experienced researchers.
Allen & Gledhill has been named Singapore Firm of the Year 2021 at the Who’s Who Legal (WWL) Awards.
This is the 13th time that Allen & Gledhill has won the country award for Singapore, having first received it in 2006. In total, 51 lawyers in our Firm were recognised, of which nine of them have been recognised as Global Elite Thought Leaders or Thought Leaders.
In addition, our Partner, Vivian Ang has been named as Lawyer of the Year for Shipping, for the second year in a row.
WWL is one of the world’s leading directories of legal practitioners and non-lawyer consulting experts. Since 2005, WWL Awards commends the very best lawyers and firms in the international legal market across various practice areas and industries.
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2021
Allen & Gledhill continues to maintain its leading position in South-east Asia in the latest rankings released by Chambers and Partners.
Singapore
Our Firm continues to have the highest number of Band 1 practice rankings and recognised lawyers in the country in the Chambers Asia-Pacific 2022 edition. In total, we have received 17 Band 1 practice rankings, with 59 lawyers recognised by the publication. Of the lawyers who were recognised, 23 were ranked as an exceptional individual (Star/Senior Statesperson/Eminent Practitioner/Band1), the most of any law firm in Singapore.
Additionally, our Firm was ranked Band 1 in the 2022 edition of the Chambers FinTech Guide released earlier this week with one Partner ranked in the top band.
Malaysia
Our associate firm, Rahmat Lim & Partners, continues to perform well in the rankings, with three Band 1 rankings (Corporate/M&A, Projects, Infrastructure & Energy, and Real Estate) and 13 recognised lawyers. Of the recognised lawyers, three were ranked Band 1.
Myanmar
Our Myanmar office continues to be ranked Band 1 in General Business Law in Myanmar with two recognised lawyers.
Indonesia
Our network firm, Soemadipradja & Taher, continues to be ranked Band 1 in Dispute Resolution. They have five recognised lawyers, one of whom has been ranked as a Senior Statesperson. In addition, Allen & Gledhill continues to be ranked in the country under the Corporate & Finance (International Firms) (Expertise Based Abroad) category.
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Allen & Gledhill continues to be ranked in the top band of “Elite” by Global Competition Review (GCR) in its GCR100 2022 listing of the world’s top competition practices. Our Competition & Antitrust Practice is “distinguished by its in-house economics expertise”, and has been ranked in the top band since GCR began covering Singapore as a jurisdiction in 2013.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners, continues to be recognised as a “Recommended” firm in the 2022 edition of GCR100.
GCR is a leading antitrust and competition law journal and news service published by Law Business Research.
For more information about our Competition & Antitrust Practice, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has been named the Regional Law Firm of the Year at the inaugural The Legal 500 Southeast Asia Legal Awards 20/21 which took place virtually on Thursday, 25 November 2021.
Recognised as “a market-leading firm with an impressive regional presence in jurisdictions including Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia and Myanmar”, The Legal 500 notes that A&G is “considered to be home to unparalleled technical talent combined with a commercial and international outlook”.
The Legal 500 Southeast Asia Legal Awards 20/21 recognises teams or individuals whose work has exceeded expectations and raised standards over the past 24 months.
For more information on The Legal 500 Southeast Asia Legal Awards 20/21, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill’s Restructuring & Insolvency Practice has been ranked as one of the world’s top 30 practices for cross-border restructuring and insolvency matters by Global Restructuring Review (GRR) in its annual GRR 30 2021 rankings.
The GRR 30 recognises the top 30 firms from the GRR 100, an annual guide to the world’s leading cross-border restructuring and insolvency practices. The guide aims to determine the top law firms from around the world GRR can recommend as a safe pair of hands for carrying out insolvency and restructuring work with an international dimension. Prior to our ranking in the GRR 30, our Firm has been ranked in GRR 100 since its introduction in 2017.
For more information about our rankings, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has once again been recognised as one of the top law firms in Singapore, according to The Straits Times (ST) in its “Singapore’s Best Law Firms 2022” survey.
We would like to thank our clients and friends for their faith in us, and for continuing to be the driving force behind our desire to raise the bar in terms of legal excellence in the region.
To find out more about our award-winning Practices, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill and its network firms continue to be recognised as leading law firms in South-east Asia in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2021. Our Firm continues to have the highest number of Tier 1 practice rankings and lawyers recognised as Hall of Fame Individuals, Leading Individuals, Next Generation Partners or Rising Stars, with a total of 36 lawyers ranked. Additionally, we have achieved more Tier 1 practice rankings and lawyers ranked as Hall of Fame and Leading Individuals as compared to last year. For more information about the rankings of Allen & Gledhill (Singapore), please click here.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners continues to be ranked Tier 1 in Banking and finance, Corporate and M&A, Real estate and construction as well as Projects and energy. They have six lawyers ranked as Hall of Fame Individuals or Leading Individuals. For more information about the rankings of Rahmat Lim & Partners, please click here.
Our Myanmar office continues to be ranked Tier 1 in Corporate and M&A as well as Projects, the only two categories covered for local firms in Myanmar. Managing Director, Minn Naing Oo, continues to be listed as a Leading Individual in the two categories. Director, Oh Hsiu-Hau has also been newly recognised as a Leading Individual in the area of Corporate and M&A. Additionally, all of our other Directors have been named as key lawyers. For more information about the rankings of Allen & Gledhill (Myanmar), please click here.
Our network firm in Indonesia, Soemadipradja & Taher continues to be ranked Tier 1 in Dispute resolution as well as Labour and employment. Additionally, they have four individuals ranked as Hall of Fame Individuals, Leading Individuals or Next Generation Partners. For more information about the rankings of Soemadipradja & Taher, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill’s White Collar & Investigations Practice has been ranked as one of the world’s top investigations practices for the fourth consecutive year by Global Investigations Review (GIR) in its annual GIR 100 2021 rankings.
The GIR 100 is an annual guide to the world’s leading cross-border investigations practices. The guide aims to determine the top 100 firms from around the world which handle sophisticated cross-border government-led and internal investigations.
For more information about our rankings, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill had our best showing at the Asian Legal Business (ALB) SE Asia Law Awards 2021 which took place virtually on 21 October 2021. We received a total of 12 wins, more than any other law firm, including retaining the honour of being named SE Asia Law Firm of the Year for the fourth consecutive year, as well as the Singapore Law Firm of the Year accolade.
Our Firm secured eight Firm awards and was recognised for our involvement in four Deals of the Year. These are:
- SE Asia Law Firm of the Year
- Singapore Law Firm of the Year
- Banking and Financial Services Firm of the Year
- Labour and Employment Law Firm of the Year
- Real Estate Law Firm of the Year
- Restructuring and Insolvency Law Firm of the Year
- Singapore Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year
- Tax and Trusts Law Firm of the Year
- Debt Market Deal of the Year (Midsize) – ARA US Hospitality Trust's Debt Issuance
- Debt Market Deal of the Year (Premium) – Ascendas REIT's Issuance of MTN Programme
- Equity Market Deal of the Year (Midsize) – GHY Culture and Media's IPO
- Equity Market Deal of the Year (Premium) – Singapore Airline's Rights Issue
Our Myanmar office, Allen & Gledhill (Myanmar) took home the Rising Law Firm of the Year award, and our associate firm in Malaysia Rahmat Lim & Partners was recognised for their involvement in the M&A Deal of the Year (Premium) – CP Group's Acquisition of Tesco’s Businesses in Thailand and Malaysia.
The ALB SE Asia Law Awards is an annual event celebrating the success of the region’s leading law firms, in-house counsel, dealmakers and deals.
For more information on the ALB SE Asia Law Awards, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice continues to be recognised as a leading practice for Patent work by Asia IP, with a Tier 1 ranking for Patent Contentious and a Tier 2 ranking for Patent Prosecution in their 2021 Patent Rankings.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners has maintained their rankings, and were ranked Tier 1 for Patent Contentious and Tier 2 ranking for Patent Prosecution in the same survey.
For more information on our rankings, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice has been recognised as a top tier firm for Copyright & related rights according to the IP Stars 2021: Copyright & related rights ranking released by Managing IP.
For more information on our rankings, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill continues to be ranked Tier 1 in the Singapore Domestic category of the M&A Rankings 2021 report released by Asian Legal Business.
In the same report, our associate firm Rahmat Lim & Partners has maintained its ranking in Tier 1 for M&A in Malaysia, and our network firm in Indonesia, Soemadipradja & Taher has maintained its ranking in Tier 2 in Indonesia.
The rankings are based on information drawn from firm submissions, Thomson Reuters M&A data, interviews, editorial resources and market suggestions to identify and rank the top firms for M&A in Asia.
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Allen & Gledhill’s Energy, Infrastructure & Projects, Mergers & Acquisitions and Restructuring & Insolvency Practices have once again been ranked Tier 1 in the latest set of rankings released by IFLR1000, while Allen & Gledhill (Myanmar) continues to be ranked Tier 1 for Financial and corporate, and Tier 2 for Project development. Additionally, our Firm has the most number of recognised lawyers across all practices in Singapore in the same rankings. In total, 72 of our lawyers are named, with 3 lawyers recognised as Market Leaders, 17 as Highly Regarded, 50 as Notable Practitioners, and 2 as Rising Stars. Two lawyers from our Myanmar office have also been ranked as Highly Regarded and another 2 have been recognised as Notable Practitioners.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners has climbed up the rankings and achieved Tier 1 for both Project development: Energy and Project development: Infrastructure, and continues to be ranked Tier 1 for M&A. They also have 15 recognised lawyers, with 10 named as Highly Regarded and 5 as Notable Practitioners.
Our network firm in Indonesia, Soemadipradja & Taher has maintained its ranking as a top tier firm for Project development, M&A, and Restructuring and insolvency. They also have 2 lawyers ranked as Highly Regarded.
IFLR1000 is the guide to the world's leading financial and corporate law firms and lawyers. They currently research around 170 national jurisdictions and rank law firms and lawyers on the basis of transactional work.
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Allen & Gledhill continues to be recognised as a leading law firm in South-east Asia in the latest Who’s Who Legal: Southeast Asia 2021 guide. Our Firm was credited with the most number of listings, across the most number of practice areas in South-east Asia due to our “considerable breadth of experience” and “strong presence” in the region. In total, our lawyers were listed 70 times across 23 practice areas, with many being lauded for their dedication and experience.
Who’s Who Legal: Southeast Asia 2021 is an in-depth guide to the region's legal marketplace, highlighting the top lawyers and experts across over 30 areas of business law.
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Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice has been recognised as a top tier firm for IP Transactions according to the IP Stars 2021: IP Transactions ranking released by Managing IP.
For more information on our rankings, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has been ranked as one of the world’s top international arbitration practices by Global Arbitration Review in its annual GAR 100 rankings (14th edition) for the ninth consecutive year.
Firms are ranked based on a number of factors, including track record, value of current portfolio as counsel, number of arbitral hearings and the number of arbitrator appointments a firm’s members are handling over a two-year period.
For more information about our International Arbitration Practice, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice has been recognised in the latest edition of the IAM Patent 1000 rankings. Our Intellectual Property Practice has been ranked “Gold” in the Litigation category, “Silver” in the Prosecution category and “Recommended” in the Transaction category, and our Partners Dr Stanley Lai, SC, Low Pei Lin, and Tham Kok Leong were recognised as leading individuals in the Litigation, Prosecution and Transaction categories respectively.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners continue to be listed as a recommended firm in the Prosecution category, with Pauline Khor being recommended as a top lawyer for Prosecution as well.
IAM Patent 1000 is a directory dedicated to identifying the world’s leading patent professionals.
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Allen & Gledhill is pleased to announce that three lawyers have been listed in Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific’s Top 100 Women in Litigation 2021. Our Firm has the most number of leading female lawyers in Singapore.
Partners Vivian Ang, Bernice Loo and Corina Song are among the 11 Singapore female lawyers who have been recognised in Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific’s Top 100 Women in Litigation 2021. Vivian is a leading lawyer for International Arbitration and Shipping, Bernice is a leading lawyer for Family and Matrimonial, and Corina is a leading lawyer for Shipping. The guide profiles leading women litigators who have earned their place by participating in some of the most impactful litigation matters in recent history, as well as by earning the hard-won respect of clients and peers as top players in their respective fields.
Allen & Gledhill’s Capital Markets Practice and Investment Funds Practice continues to maintain its Tier 1 rankings for Capital Markets: Debt, Capital Markets: Equity, and is the only firm ranked Tier 1 for Investment Funds according to IFLR1000’s Capital Markets and Investment Funds rankings.
The Capital Markets Practice at our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners maintained its Tier 2 ranking for both Capital Markets: Debt and Capital Markets: Equity. Soemadipradja & Taher, our network firm in Indonesia was recognised as a leading firm for both Capital Markets: Debt and Capital Markets: Equity.
IFLR1000 is the guide to the world's leading financial and corporate law firms and lawyers. They currently research around 170 national jurisdictions and rank law firms and lawyers on the basis of transactional work.
For more information on our rankings, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice has maintained its top tier rankings in the Patent Contentious and Patent Prosecution categories in the IP Stars 2021: Patent firm rankings, which was released by Managing IP. In addition to this, our lawyers were ranked as top Intellectual Property lawyers by the publication. Dr Stanley Lai, SC, was ranked Patent star and Trade mark star, with Low Pei Lin ranked as Patent star, and Gloria Goh ranked as Trade mark star. Pei Lin was also recently recognised by Managing IP in their top 250 women in IP 2021 report.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners, has also been recognised as a leading firm in the same categories, with Pauline Khor being recognised as a Trade mark star.
For more information about our rankings, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill is pleased to announce that our Partner, Andrew Chan has been ranked as a Thought Leader in Who’s Who Legal (WWL): Thought Leaders – Restructuring & Insolvency 2021. The guide features foremost restructuring practitioners with expertise and experience in relation to some of the world’s most significant and cutting-edge mandates. Individuals who are recognised in the guide are lauded for “their ability to innovate, inspire, and go above and beyond to deliver for their clients”.
For more information about our rankings, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill’s award winning Banking & Finance Practice continues to maintain its Tier 1 ranking for Banking and Finance according to the latest results released by IFLR1000. In Malaysia, our associate firm, Rahmat Lim & Partners have also maintained their Tier 1 ranking for Banking and Finance, while Soemadipradja & Taher, our network firm in Indonesia, has achieved the Tier 2 ranking in both the Banking and Project Finance Categories.
IFLR1000 is the guide to the world's leading financial and corporate law firms and lawyers. They currently research around 170 national jurisdictions and rank law firms and lawyers on the basis of transactional work.
For more information about our rankings, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill is pleased to be named the Best Law Firm in Singapore for the second consecutive year in the FinanceAsia Country Awards 2021.
FinanceAsia's Country Awards is a series of awards that recognise the best banks, brokers, law firms, as well as ratings agencies in Asia’s domestic markets.
This award recognises outstanding law firms which have undertaken ground-breaking transactions, demonstrated creativity in service to clients, and successfully navigated complex regulatory issues across multiple jurisdictions and practice areas.
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Allen & Gledhill has won two firm awards at the Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific Awards 2021:
The results were announced in the virtual ceremony on Thursday, 27 May 2021.
Benchmark Litigation awards are judged according to innovation, complexity and impact. Winners are chosen according to research conducted through extensive interviews with litigators, dispute resolution specialists and their clients to identify the leading litigators and firms. The awards celebrate leading litigators and the most impactful disputes across Asia-Pacific based upon the information captured in the submission for the latest edition of Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific. It is aimed at those who have displayed outstanding achievement in advising clients on local law matters, across a range of practice areas.
Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice continues to be ranked Tier 1 in the categories of Copyright/Trademarks as well as Patents in the latest Asian Legal Business Intellectual Property Rankings 2021.
In addition to this, our associate firm, Rahmat Lim & Partners has maintained its Tier 1 ranking in Copyright/Trademark and Tier2 ranking for Patents in the same report.
The rankings are based on information drawn from firm submissions, Thomson Reuters' data, interviews, editorial resources and market suggestions to identify and rank the top firms for Intellectual Property in Asia.
Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice has maintained its Tier 1 rankings for Trademark Contentious and Trademark Prosecution in the 2021 Asia IP Trademark Survey.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners has also climbed up the rankings, and has achieved the Tier 1 ranking for Trademark Contentious in the same survey.
For more information on our rankings, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has received top tier rankings in the practice areas covered by Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific 2021. In the review conducted by Benchmark for work completed in 2020, our Firm continues to be ranked Tier 1 in Commercial and Transactions, Insolvency, International Arbitration – Domestic firms, Intellectual Property, Shipping, as well as Tier 2 for Construction. We have maintained our ranking for Family and Matrimonial and improved our ranking for White Collar Crime. We are newly ranked Tier 1 for Labour and Employment, and have also been recognised in the Private Client category this year.
In addition, 15 Partners have been ranked as Litigation Stars and two Partners have been ranked as Future Stars.
Rahmat Lim & Partners, our associate firm in Malaysia, has been ranked Tier 2 in Construction and Labour and Employment, as well as Tier 3 in Commercial and Transactions. The Firm has improved its ranking for Competition/Antitrust and is recognised for Shipping for the first time. On top of the practice rankings, two Partners have been ranked as a Litigation Stars and another two Partners have been ranked as Future Stars.
Soemadipradja & Taher, our network firm in Indonesia, has been ranked Tier 2 in Commercial and Transactions, with a Partner ranked as a Litigation Star.
Benchmark exclusively covers the litigation and disputes market, researchers conduct extensive interview with litigators, dispute resolution specialists and their clients to identify the world’s leading litigation firms and lawyers.
We are pleased to announce that three of our Partners, Margaret Chin, Lim Mei, and Tan Tze Gay have been named in IFLR1000 Women Leaders 2021 – Asia-Pacific, a guide that recognises the elite cohort of leading female transactional lawyers in the world. They were chosen because of their impressive track records, in addition to being consistently recommended by their clients and peers for the quality of their service and advice. Our Partners are among the 13 female lawyers who are exclusively named in Singapore, and all three of them have been listed in the guide since its inaugural edition in 2018.
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Allen & Gledhill has won the Singapore Corporate & Finance Domestic Law Advisers award at the Chambers Asia-Pacific Awards 2021.
This is the sixth time Allen & Gledhill has received recognition from Chambers and Partners, the most among Singapore law firms, since the inception of the Awards in 2010.
The Chambers Asia-Pacific Awards recognise a law firm’s pre-eminence in key jurisdictions in the region and also reflect notable achievements over the past 12 months, including outstanding work, impressive strategic growth and excellence in client service. They honour the work of national and international law firms across the region based on the research carried out for the recent edition of the Chambers Asia-Pacific guide.
Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice has maintained its top tier rankings in the trade mark contentious and trade mark prosecution categories of the IP Stars 2021 rankings released by Managing IP.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners, has also been recognised as a leading firm in the same categories.
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Allen & Gledhill has once again been named the Most Innovative National Law Firm of the Year (Singapore) at the prestigious International Financial Law Review (IFLR) Asia-Pacific Awards 2021. This is the 20th time that Allen & Gledhill has won the country law firm award for Singapore since the inception of the IFLR Asia-Pacific Awards in 2000.
Results for the awards were announced by IFLR on 25 March.
The IFLR Asia-Pacific Awards recognises the region’s most innovative deals, and firms that worked on them. First published in 1982, IFLR is a market-leading financial law publication for lawyers specialising in international finance and finance institutions, corporates and in private practice.
Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice has once again achieved the Tier 1 ranking in the Asia IP Copyright Survey for 2021.
Our associate Firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners have also improved their position from last year, and were ranked Tier 1 in the same survey.
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Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice has once again been recognised as a leading practice in the 2021 edition of The World Trademark Review 1000 (“WTR 1000”) in both the Enforcement and Litigation, and Prosecution and Strategy categories.
Our Firm’s Partners, Dr Stanley Lai, SC and Low Pei Lin have also been recognised as leading individuals in WTR 1000 2021 for Enforcement and Litigation, and Prosecution and Strategy respectively.
In addition, our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners, has been ranked as a leading Intellectual Property Practice, with Pauline Khor recognised as a leading individual for Prosecution and Strategy in the same publication.
WTR 1000 is a directory dedicated to identifying the world’s leading trade mark legal service providers.
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Allen & Gledhill is pleased to announce that our Partners Elsa Chen and Daren Shiau have once again been named as Thought Leaders in Who’s Who Legal (WWL) Thought Leaders: Competition 2021. Our Chief Economist and Partner, Elsa Chen also continues to be the only Economist named as a Thought Leader in Singapore. Our Partner, Daren Shiau has been named as a Thought Leader in the same guide since its inception.
WWL Thought Leaders: Competition 2021 is a guide that brings together the insight, expertise and wisdom of some of the world’s foremost competition lawyers and economists. Individuals were chosen not only for their “vast expertise and experience advising on some of the world’s most significant and cutting-edge legal matters”, but also for “their ability to innovate, inspire, and go above and beyond to deliver for their clients.”
For more information, please click here.
2020
Allen & Gledhill is pleased to announce that seven Partners have been ranked in Who’s Who Legal (WWL): Banking 2021 guide. WWL: Banking provides an in-depth guide to the leading banking lawyers around the world, who are singled out for their considerable expertise in representing financial institutions and their corporate clients in a host of financing and regulatory matters. You may view their profiles by clicking on their names below:
Banking - Fintech
- Adrian Ang (one of two Global Elite Thought Leaders in Asia-Pacific and the only one in South-east Asia)
- Tham Kok Leong
- Alexander Yap
Banking - Finance
- Kok Chee Wai (a Global Elite Thought Leader for Asia-Pacific)
- Mark Hudspeth
- Julie Sim
Banking - Regulatory
- Adrian Ang
- Francis Mok (a Global Elite Thought Leader for Asia-Pacific)
In addition, our Partners, Adrian Ang and Francis Mok are recognised in the WWL: Thought Leaders – GBRR 2021 guide. The guide features foremost banking regulatory lawyers with expertise and experience in relation to some of the world’s most significant and cutting-edge mandates. Lawyers who are recognised are lauded for their ability to innovate, inspire, and go above and beyond to deliver for their clients.
For more information about our rankings, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill continues to be ranked in the top band of “Elite” by Global Competition Review (GCR) in its GCR100 2021 listing of the world’s top competition practices. The Practice is described as “highly regarded” and a “fixture in the elite category”, having been ranked in the top band since GCR began covering Singapore as a jurisdiction in 2013.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners, continues to be recognised as a “Recommended” firm in the 2021 edition of GCR100.
GCR is a leading antitrust and competition law journal and news service published by Law Business Research.
For more information about our Competition & Antitrust Practice, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill continues to maintain its leading position in South-east Asia in the latest rankings released by Chambers and Partners.
Singapore
Our Firm continues to have the highest number of Band 1 practice rankings and recognised lawyers in the country in the Chambers Asia-Pacific 2021 edition. We have achieved more Band 1 practice rankings as compared to last year, with 17 practices in the top tier. A total of 52 lawyers have been recognised by the publication, of which 20 lawyers are ranked Band 1 or as an exceptional individual (Senior Statesperson/Star/Eminent Practitioner).
Additionally, our Firm was ranked Band 1 in the 2021 edition of the Chambers FinTech Guide released last week with one Partner ranked in the top band.
Malaysia
Our associate firm, Rahmat Lim & Partners, achieved a better showing than last year, with three Band 1 practice rankings (Corporate/M&A, Projects, Infrastructure & Energy, and Real Estate) and 11 recognised lawyers.
Myanmar
Our Myanmar office continues to be ranked Band 1 in General Business Law in Myanmar with two recognised lawyers.
Indonesia
Our network firm, Soemadipradja & Taher, continues to be ranked Band 1 in Dispute Resolution. They have six recognised lawyers, one of whom has been ranked as a "Senior Statesperson". In addition, Allen & Gledhill has improved our ranking in the country under the Corporate & Finance (International Firms) (Expertise Based Abroad) category.
Allen & Gledhill is pleased to announce that our Partners, Andrew Chan and Edward Tiong have been ranked in the latest edition of Who’s Who Legal: Restructuring & Insolvency 2021 global guide. The guide identifies leading restructuring and insolvency lawyers with outstanding experience and expertise who have advised a wide variety of domestic and international clients on insolvency proceedings, corporate restructurings, liquidations and distressed transactions.
Who’s Who Legal has been identifying the foremost legal practitioners and experts in business law based upon comprehensive, independent research since 1996.
Allen & Gledhill has been ranked as one of the world’s top Restructuring & Insolvency practices by Global Restructuring Review (GRR) in its fourth edition of GRR 100 rankings.
The GRR 100 is an annual guide to the world’s leading cross-border restructuring and insolvency practices. The guide aims to determine the top law firms from around the world GRR can recommend as a safe pair of hands for carrying out insolvency and restructuring work with an international dimension.
For more information about our Restructuring & Insolvency Practice, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill is pleased to announce that our Partner, Peh Aik Hin has been ranked as a Future Leader in the latest edition of Who’s Who Legal: Litigation 2020 global guide. The guide identifies the foremost litigators around the world who are singled out for their outstanding ability within this contentious context, as well as standout practitioners in the litigation field aged 45 or younger as future leaders in the market.
Who’s Who Legal has been identifying the foremost legal practitioners and experts in business law based upon comprehensive, independent research since 1996.
Allen & Gledhill has won the “Megatrend Deal of the Year – Property” award at the FinanceAsia Achievement Awards 2020, for our involvement in the S$8.2 billion (US$6.1 billion) merger of CapitaLand Mall Trust and CapitaLand Commercial Trust.
Our associate firm, Rahmat Lim & Partners also won the “Islamic Finance Deal of the Year” award for their role in Axiata’s US$600 million and RM867 million (US$168 million) syndicated Islamic sustainability-linked financing.
FinanceAsia's Achievement Awards is a series of awards that recognise the best financial markets transactions and issuers in the past year in Asia.
These awards recognise outstanding law firms which have undertaken ground-breaking transactions, demonstrated creativity in service to clients, as well as successfully navigated complex regulatory issues across multiple jurisdictions and practice areas.
Allen & Gledhill is pleased to announce that our Partner, Adrian Ang has been named in the inaugural Global Banking Regulation Review (GBRR) 45 under 45 2020 list. Adrian is the only private practice lawyer in Singapore who is recognised in the list.
The GBRR 45 under 45 list showcases 45 leading next generation banking regulation specialists from around the world, who are all under the age of 45. GBRR is a provider of news and insight for banking regulation professionals covering prudential regulation, derivatives, bank corporate governance, fintech, misconduct and regulatory enforcement.
Allen & Gledhill is pleased to announce that our Partner, Vivian Ang has been named as Lawyer of the Year for Shipping at the Who’s Who Legal (WWL) Awards 2020.
WWL is one of the world’s leading directories of legal practitioners and non-lawyer consulting experts. Since 2005, WWL Awards commends the very best lawyers and firms in the international legal market across various practice areas and industries. Individuals who score the highest recommendation in the research conducted by WWL will be named as WWL Lawyer or Expert of the Year.
Allen & Gledhill has been recognised as one of top law firms in Singapore by The Straits Times (ST) in its “Singapore’s Best Law Firms 2021” survey. Conducted by ST and renowned German-based market research company, Statista, the survey recognises the top law firms in Singapore as voted for by professionals in 15 legal practice categories.
We are the only law firm ranked across all categories, with 10 practices receiving a five-star rating. A summary of our results are as follows:
Five-star rating
- Banking and finance law
- Civil dispute resolution (litigation, arbitration, mediation)
- Company and commercial law
- Conveyancing
- Insolvency and restructuring
- Intellectual property law
- Manpower and employment
- Maritime and shipping law
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Real estate law (commercial property, construction, funds)
Four-star rating
- Charities, not-for-profit associations and pro bono
- Criminal law
- Family law
- Inheritance and succession, private wealth management
- Negligence and liability law (professional/medical/accidents)
The “Singapore’s Best Law Firms” survey was conducted online between 9 June 2020 and 8 August 2020. With more than 10,000 firm recommendations received, a total of 4,716 professionals participated in this survey.
Click here to read the ST article about our Firm’s rankings.
Allen & Gledhill has been ranked as one of the world’s top investigations practices by Global Investigations Review (GIR) in its annual GIR 100 2020 rankings.
The GIR 100 is an annual guide to the world’s leading cross-border investigations practices. The guide aims to determine the top 100 firms from around the world which handle sophisticated cross-border government-led and internal investigations.
For more information about our White Collar & Investigations Practice, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill is pleased to announce that six Partners have been listed in Who’s Who Legal (WWL) Thought Leaders: Global Elite 2020 guide.
Six of our Partners have been named “Global Elite Thought Leaders” across seven practice areas. You may view their profiles by clicking on their names below:
- Adrian Ang - Banking | Fintech (the only lawyer ranked in Singapore)
- Vivian Ang - Insurance & Reinsurance as well as Shipping
- Jerry Koh - Capital Markets (the only lawyer ranked in Singapore)
- Kok Chee Wai - Banking
- Andrew M Lim - M&A and Governance (the only lawyer ranked in Singapore)
- Daren Shiau - Competition (the only lawyer ranked in Singapore)
As the highest accolade given by WWL, individuals who are listed in the WWL Thought Leaders: Global Elite guide comprise the top two per cent. of all the nominees who have obtained the highest number of nominations from peers, corporate counsel and other market sources in the most recent research cycle of WWL. The guide recognises eminent practitioners across multiple practice areas who have vast expertise and experience advising on some of the world’s most significant and cutting-edge legal matters, and have demonstrated their ability to innovate, inspire, and go above and beyond to deliver for their clients.
WWL has been identifying the foremost lawyers and experts in business law based upon comprehensive, independent research since 1996.
For more information about our rankings, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has been named SE Asia Law Firm of the Year, retaining our title for the third consecutive year, at the recent Asian Legal Business (ALB) SE Asia Law Awards 2020 which took place virtually on Thursday, 15 October 2020.
In addition to the regional award, we clinched five other Firm Awards and received recognition for our involvement in two Deal Awards:
- Banking and Financial Services Firm of the Year
- Corporate Citizenship Law Firm of the Year
- Maritime Law Firm of the Year
- Real Estate Law Firm of the Year
- Singapore Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year
- Equity Market Deal of the Year (Midsize) – Lendlease Global Commercial REIT’s IPO
- M&A Deal of the Year (Midsize) – Ascott REIT's Merger with Ascendas Hospitality Trust
Our Firm won a total of eight awards, our best showing in the last five years and the most awarded law firm at this event.
The ALB SE Asia Law Awards is an annual event celebrating the success of the region’s leading law firms, in-house counsel, dealmakers and deals.
For more information on the ALB SE Asia Law Awards, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill is pleased to announce that five Partners have been featured in the latest edition of the IFLR Asia Best Lawyers guide, which identifies the top individual legal practitioners who have received the highest and most consistent praise from their peers and clients.
You may view their profiles by clicking on their names below:
In addition, Azman bin Othman Luk, Managing Partner of Rahmat Lim & Partners, our associate firm in Malaysia has been recognised in the same guide.
For more information, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill is pleased to announce that Dinesh Dhillon, Partner and Co-Head of our International Arbitration Practice, has been ranked in the latest edition of the Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration 2021 global guide, in association with Global Arbitration Review. The guide identifies the world’s best arbitration lawyers, who are highly recommended for their expertise in resolving complex international disputes.
Who’s Who Legal has been identifying the foremost legal practitioners and experts in business law based upon comprehensive, independent research since 1996.
Allen & Gledhill has maintained its Tier 1 ranking for the Singapore category of World Tax 2021. We are the only Singapore law firm ranked in this tier.
Our lawyers Sunit Chhabra and Lim Pek Bur were also recognised in World Tax 2021. Sunit Chhabra is ranked as ‘Highly Regarded’ in the General Corporate Tax and Tax Controversy categories while Lim Pek Bur is ranked as ‘Highly Regarded’ in the Indirect Tax and Women in Tax categories.
World Tax is a directory which provides rankings and profiles of the most effective tax practitioners in the world, covering almost 90 jurisdictions based on every continent.
For more information, please click here.
IFLR1000 has announced the final group of national Asia-Pacific rankings for its thirtieth edition. As part of the final group, the ranking tables for M&A (for Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia) and Financial and Corporate (for Myanmar only) as well as individual rankings for all practices were released.
Allen & Gledhill continues to be ranked Tier 1 in Singapore for M&A and has the highest number of lawyers recognised by IFLR1000. Among the Recognised Lawyers, 22 Partners are ranked as leading individuals with three of them named as ‘Market Leaders’, defined by IFLR1000 as “true leaders of their field…[who] have a track record of high profile innovative deals and are recognised as the standout performers in their country or practice area”. For more information about the IFLR1000 rankings of Allen & Gledhill (Singapore), please click here.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners, has maintained its Tier 1 ranking in the M&A category and has 10 Partners recognised as ‘Highly Regarded Lawyers’, the highest number among Malaysia law firms. For more information about the IFLR1000 rankings of Rahmat Lim & Partners, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill (Myanmar) has moved up the ranks to Tier 1 in the Financial and Corporate category. All four of our Directors in Myanmar were recognised in IFLR1000’s thirtieth edition, with two of them named as ‘Highly Regarded Lawyers’. For more information about the IFLR1000 rankings of Allen & Gledhill (Myanmar), please click here.
Our network firm in Indonesia, Soemadipradja & Taher, has also maintained its Tier 2 rankings in the M&A category. Two lawyers from Soemadipradja & Taher continue to be recognised as ‘Highly Regarded Lawyers’ in the latest edition of the IFLR1000 rankings. For more information about the IFLR1000 rankings of Soemadipradja & Taher, please click here.
IFLR1000 has been producing legal market intelligence since 1990 and remains the only international legal directory dedicated to ranking law firms and lawyers on the basis of financial and corporate transactional work.
For more information about our rankings, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has been recognised by Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific Awards 2020 for our involvement in the following two Matters of the Year awards:
- B2C2 v Quoine
- Committee of Inquiry into the cyber attack on Singapore Health Services’ patient database
In addition to the Matters of the Year awards, our Firm was named Runner Up for the following Firm of the Year awards:
- Firm of the Year – Singapore
- Insolvency Firm of the Year
Benchmark Litigation awards are judged according to innovation, complexity and impact. Winners were chosen according to research conducted through extensive interviews with litigation, dispute resolution specialists and their clients to identify the leading litigators and firms. The awards recognise the foremost leaders in 11 practice areas and 14 jurisdictions covered by Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific directory. It is aimed at those who have displayed outstanding achievement in advising clients on local law matters, across a range of practice areas.
Allen & Gledhill continues to be ranked Tier 1 in the Singapore Domestic category of the M&A Rankings 2020 report released by Asian Legal Business.
Our associate firm, Rahmat Lim & Partners has maintained its ranking in Tier 1 for M&A in Malaysia and our network firm, Soemadipradja & Taher is ranked in Tier 2 in Indonesia in the same report.
The rankings are based on information drawn from firm submissions, Thomson Reuters M&A data, interviews, editorial resources and market suggestions to identify and rank the top firms for M&A in Asia.
For more information, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has received top tier rankings in the practice areas and industry sectors covered by Asialaw Profiles, with the highest number of top tier practice area rankings in Singapore. We have been ranked “Outstanding” in 11 out of 13 practice areas and “Highly recommended” in the other two practice areas. In addition, our Firm is ranked “Outstanding” in six out of eight industry sectors and is “Recommended” in the other two sectors. Thirty of our lawyers have been recognised as Leading Lawyers in Asialaw Leading Lawyers, and 11 of whom have been recognised as “Elite practitioner”. For more information about the rankings of Allen & Gledhill (Singapore), please click here.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners, has been ranked in nine practice areas and six industry sectors, and it has eight Leading Lawyers. For more information about the rankings of Rahmat Lim & Partners, please click here.
Our Myanmar office is ranked “Highly recommended” for general business law (the only practice area covered by Asialaw Profiles), and has been ranked in four industry sectors with three of our Partners being recognised as Leading Lawyers. For more information about the rankings of Allen & Gledhill (Myanmar), please click here.
Our network firm in Indonesia, Soemadipradja & Taher, has been ranked in six practice areas and six industry sectors, and it has six Leading Lawyers. For more information about the rankings of Soemadipradja & Taher, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill is pleased to announce that nine Partners have been ranked in the latest edition of the Who’s Who Legal: Capital Markets 2020 global guide, which identifies the most prominent capital markets lawyers around the globe.
Nine of our A&G lawyers have been named as recommended individuals, who are considered to be leading names in their profession. You may view their profiles by clicking on their names below:
- Margaret Chin
- Leonard Ching
- Chua Bor Jern
- Rhys Goh
- Jerry Koh
- Magdalene Leong
- Tan Tze-Gay
- Teh Hoe Yue
- Yeo Wico
Who’s Who Legal has been identifying the foremost legal practitioners and experts in business law based upon comprehensive, independent research since 1996.
For more information about our rankings, please click here.
IFLR1000 has announced the third group of national Asia-Pacific rankings for its thirtieth edition. As part of the third group, the ranking tables for Project Development (for Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar and Indonesia) and Restructuring and Insolvency (for Singapore and Indonesia only) were released.
Allen & Gledhill continues to be ranked Tier 1 in Singapore for Project Development and Restructuring and Insolvency and Allen & Gledhill (Myanmar) has moved up the ranks to Tier 2 in the Project Development category.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners, has maintained its Tier 2 rankings in all three areas covered under Project Development, namely Infrastructure, Power, and Oil and Gas.
Our network firm in Indonesia, Soemadipradja & Taher, has also maintained its rankings for both Project Development and Restructuring and Insolvency.
IFLR1000 has been producing legal market intelligence since 1990 and remains the only international legal directory dedicated to ranking law firms and lawyers on the basis of financial and corporate transactional work.
For more information about our rankings, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill is pleased to announce that eight Partners have been ranked in the latest edition of the Who’s Who Legal M&A and Governance 2020 global guide, which identifies the foremost lawyers handling high-profile corporate transactions, governance and foreign investment review matters globally.
Partner Andrew M Lim is one of two lawyers in Singapore to be named a Global Elite Thought Leader for M&A, which recognises practitioners that are the best of the best in the research. Seven other A&G lawyers have been included as recommended individuals, who are considered to be leading names in their profession. You may view the profiles of the eight lawyers by clicking on their names below:
- Christine Chan (Recommended in Corporate Governance)
- Lee Kim Shin (Recommended in M&A)
- Andrew M Lim (Global Elite Thought Leader in M&A)
- Lim Mei (Recommended in M&A)
- Christina Ong (Recommended in Corporate Governance)
- Prawiro Widjaja (Recommended in M&A)
- Yap Lune Teng (Recommended in Corporate Governance)
- Richard Young (Recommended in M&A and Corporate Governance)
Who’s Who Legal has been identifying the foremost legal practitioners and experts in business law based upon comprehensive, independent research since 1996.
For more information about our rankings, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has once again maintained its ranking as a leading firm in the copyright & related rights category of the IP STARS 2020 firm rankings, which was released by Managing IP.
IFLR1000 has announced the second group of national Asia-Pacific rankings for its thirtieth edition. As part of the second group, the ranking tables for Capital Markets (for Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia) and Investment Funds (for Singapore) were released.
Allen & Gledhill continues to be ranked Tier 1 in Singapore for Capital Markets: Debt and Capital Markets: Equity, and have been recognised as a leading law firm for Investment Funds (a new category for Singapore). Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners, as well as our network firm in Indonesia, Soemadipradja & Taher have maintained their Tier 2 rankings for Capital Markets: Debt and Capital Markets: Equity.
IFLR1000 has been producing legal market intelligence since 1990 and remains the only international legal directory dedicated to ranking law firms and lawyers on the basis of financial and corporate transactional work.
For more information about our rankings, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has maintained its Tier 1 rankings for Trademark Contentious and Trademark Prosecution in the 2020 Asia IP Trademark Survey.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners has attained Tier 2 for Trademark Contentious by the publication.
Allen & Gledhill has been ranked as one of the world’s top international arbitration practices by Global Arbitration Review in its annual GAR 100 rankings (13th edition) for the eighth consecutive year.
Firms are ranked based on a number of factors, including track record, value of current portfolio as counsel, number of arbitral hearings and the number of arbitrator appointments a firm’s members are handling over a two-year period.
For more information about our International Arbitration Practice, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice has been recognised in the latest edition of the IAM Patent 1000 rankings. Our Intellectual Property Practice has been ranked “Gold” in the Litigation category, “Silver” in the Prosecution category and “Recommended” in the Transaction category.
Our Firm’s Partners, Dr Stanley Lai, SC, Low Pei Lin, and Tham Kok Leong were also recognised as leading individuals in the Litigation, Prosecution and Transaction categories respectively. They were noted by IAM Patent 1000 to be “…the three pinnacles of patent litigation, prosecution and transactions, delivering cradle-to-grave IP services.”
In addition, our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners has been ranked in the Prosecution category for the Malaysia chapter. Partner Pauline Khor has also been recognised as a leading individual in the Litigation category.
IAM Patent 1000 is a directory dedicated to identifying the world’s leading patent professionals.
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IFLR1000 has announced the first group of national Asia-Pacific rankings for its latest 2021 edition. As part of the first group, the ranking tables for the Banking and Finance category in Singapore and Malaysia, along with the Banking and Project Finance categories in Indonesia were released.
Allen & Gledhill continues to be ranked Tier 1 in Singapore for Banking and Finance by IFLR1000 2021. In Malaysia, our associate firm, Rahmat Lim & Partners, has also maintained their Tier 1 ranking for Banking and Finance, while our network firm in Indonesia, Soemadipradja & Taher continues to maintain its Tier 2 rankings for the categories of Banking and Project Finance.
IFLR1000 is the guide to the world's leading financial and corporate law firms and lawyers. They currently research around 170 national jurisdictions and rank law firms and lawyers on the basis of transactional work.
For more information about our rankings, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has once again maintained top tier rankings in the patent contentious and patent prosecution categories of the IP STARS 2020: Patent firm rankings, which was released by Managing IP.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners, has also been recognised as a leading firm in the same categories.
Allen & Gledhill is pleased to announce that several of our female lawyers have been listed in two publications, IFLR1000 Women Leaders 2020 – Asia-Pacific and Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific's Top 100 Women in Litigation 2020.
Three of our Partners Margaret Chin, Lim Mei and Tan Tze Gay have been named in IFLR1000 Women Leaders 2020 – Asia-Pacific, a guide that recognises the elite cohort of leading female transactional lawyers in the world. Our Partners are among the 11 female lawyers who are exclusively named in Singapore, and have been listed in the guide since its inaugural edition in 2018.
In addition, Partners Vivian Ang and Corina Song are among the eight Singapore female lawyers who have been recognised in the inaugural edition of Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific's Top 100 Women in Litigation 2020. Vivian is a leading lawyer for International Arbitration and Shipping, while Corina is a leading lawyer for Shipping. The guide profiles leading women litigators who have earned their place by participating in some of the most impactful litigation matters in recent history, as well as by earning the hard-won respect of clients and peers as top players in their respective fields.
Earlier this year in April 2020, Allen & Gledhill announced that seven of our lawyers have been inducted into the inaugural Hall of Fame by The Legal 500. Our Firm has the most number of lawyers named in the Hall of Fame in Singapore. To read more on this, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has been named Best Law Firm in Singapore in FinanceAsia’s Country Awards 2020.
FinanceAsia's Country Awards is a series of awards that recognise the best banks, brokers, law firms in Asia’s domestic markets, as well as ratings agencies.
This award recognises outstanding law firms which have undertaken ground-breaking transactions, demonstrated creativity in service to clients, as well as successfully navigated complex regulatory issues across multiple jurisdictions and practice areas.
Allen & Gledhill continues to be ranked Tier 1 for Patents and Copyright/Trademarks work in Singapore in the Intellectual Property Rankings 2020 report released by Asian Legal Business. The rankings are based on information drawn from firm submissions, interviews, market suggestions and other editorial resources to identify and rank the top firms for intellectual property in Asia.
In addition, our associate firm, Rahmat Lim & Partners, has been recognised in Malaysia in the same report.
For more information, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has been named Most Innovative National Law Firm of the Year (Singapore) at the prestigious International Financial Law Review (IFLR) Asia-Pacific Awards 2020. This is the 19th time that Allen & Gledhill has won the country law firm award for Singapore since the inception of the IFLR Asia-Pacific Awards in 2000.
In addition, our Firm was recognised for our involvement in the High Yield Deal of the Year (Medco Energi Internasional).
Results for the awards were published by IFLR on Thursday, 7 May 2020.
The IFLR Asia-Pacific Awards recognises the region’s most innovative deals, and firms that worked on them. First published in 1982, IFLR is a market-leading financial law publication for lawyers specialising in international finance and finance institutions, corporates and in private practice.
Over the years, Allen & Gledhill has been recognised as a leading law firm by many leading legal publishers. Earlier this year, our Firm was named Singapore Corporate & Finance Domestic Law Advisers at the Chambers Asia-Pacific Awards 2020.
Allen & Gledhill has received top tier rankings in the practice areas covered by Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific 2020. In the review conducted by Benchmark for work completed in 2019, our Firm continues to be ranked Tier 1 in Commercial and Transactions, Insolvency, International Arbitration – Domestic, Intellectual Property and Shipping, as well as Tier 2 in Construction. We have also been ranked for Family and Matrimonial and White Collar Crime.
In addition, 13 Partners have been ranked as Litigation Stars and two Partners have been ranked as Future Stars.
Rahmat Lim & Partners, our associate firm in Malaysia, has been ranked Tier 2 in Construction and Tier 3 in Commercial and Transactions, and Labor and Employment. The Firm is ranked for the first time for Competition/antitrust. On top of the practice rankings, one Partner has been ranked as a Litigation Star and two Partners have been ranked as Future Stars.
Soemadipradja & Taher, our network firm in Indonesia, has been ranked Tier 2 in Commercial and Transactions, with a Partner ranked as a Litigation Star.
Benchmark exclusively covers the litigation and disputes market, researchers conduct extensive interview with litigators, dispute resolution specialists and their clients to identify the world’s leading litigation firms and lawyers.
Allen & Gledhill is pleased to announce that seven of our lawyers have been inducted into the inaugural Hall of Fame by The Legal 500. Our Firm has the most number of lawyers named in the Hall of Fame in Singapore. You may view the profiles of the seven Hall of Fame lawyers by clicking on their names below:
- Vivian Ang (Shipping)
- Andrew Chan (Restructuring and Insolvency)
- Margaret Chin (Capital Markets: Equity and Debt)
- Penny Goh (Real Estate)
- Andrew M Lim (Corporate and M&A)
- Lim Mei (Corporate and M&A)
- Tan Tze Gay (Capital Markets: Equity and Debt)
In addition, Partner, Pauline Khor of our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners, has been recognised in the Hall of Fame for Intellectual Property in Malaysia.
Senior Partner, Rahmat Soemadipradja of our network firm in Indonesia, Soemadipradja & Taher has been admitted in the Hall of Fame for Projects and Energy in Indonesia.
The Legal 500 Hall of Fame highlights individuals who are at the pinnacle of the profession and have received constant praise from their clients for continued excellence. The requirement for this honour includes being ranked as a Leading Individual by The Legal 500 for at least eight years consecutively. For more information about The Legal 500 Hall of Fame, please click here.
Earlier this year in January 2020, Allen & Gledhill has been recognised as a leading law firm in South-east Asia in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2020, with the highest number of Tier 1 practice rankings and lawyers listed as Leading Individuals in Singapore.
Allen & Gledhill has won the Singapore Corporate & Finance Domestic Law Advisers award at the Chambers Asia-Pacific Awards 2020.
This is the fifth time Allen & Gledhill has received recognition from Chambers and Partners, the most among Singapore law firms, since the inception of the Awards in 2010.
The Chambers Asia-Pacific Awards honour the work of national and international law firms across the region based on the research carried out for the recent edition of the Chambers Asia-Pacific guide. They recognise a law firm’s pre-eminence in key jurisdictions in the region and also reflect notable achievements over the past 12 months, including outstanding work, impressive strategic growth and excellence in client service.
Allen & Gledhill has maintained its top tier rankings in the trade mark contentious and trade mark prosecution categories of the IP Stars 2020 Firm Rankings release by Managing IP.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners, has also been recognised as a leading firm in the same categories.
Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice has once again achieved the Tier 1 ranking in the Asia IP Copyright Survey 2020.
Our associate Firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners were ranked Tier 2 in the same survey.
Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice has once again been recognised as a leading practice in the 2020 edition of The World Trademark Review 1000 (“WTR 1000”). Our Intellectual Property Practice was recognised in both the Enforcement and Litigation, and Prosecution and Strategy categories.
Our Firm’s Partners, Dr Stanley Lai, SC and Low Pei Lin have also been recognised as leading individuals in WTR 1000 2020 for Enforcement and Litigation, and Prosecution and Strategy respectively.
In addition, our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners, has been ranked as a leading intellectual property practice, with Pauline Khor recognised as a leading individual for Prosecution and Strategy in the same publication.
WTR 1000 is a directory dedicated to identifying the world’s leading trade mark legal service providers.
For more information, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has won the Patent Firm of the Year – Singapore award at the Global IP Awards 2020 which took place in London on Wednesday, 29 January 2020.
The Global IP Awards 2020 recognise the outstanding achievements of IP firms in litigation, prosecution and transactional work during 2019. Based on the collective knowledge and insight by Global IP’s full-time journalists and dedicated researchers based in Europe, and drawing on a number of strategic data points, Global IP identified the firms that deserve recognition for their achievements across the past 12 months. In total, 113 awards were awarded to firms from across the globe, highlighting the depth and spread of IP expertise available to corporate IP teams the world over.
For more information, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill continues to be ranked in the top band of “Elite” by Global Competition Review (GCR) in its GCR100 2020 listing of the world’s top competition practices. Our Competition & Antitrust Practice is recognised as an elite team backed by a group of talented competition economists and analysts to better provide clients with legal advice and economic analysis. Allen & Gledhill has been ranked in the top band of “Elite” since GCR began covering Singapore as a jurisdiction in 2013.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners is a recommended firm in the same publication.
GCR is a leading antitrust and competition publication and news service published by Law Business Research.
For more information about our Competition & Antitrust Practice, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has been voted Asian-mena Counsel In-House Community Firm of the Year 2019 in five categories.
Apart from being awarded the Most Responsive Domestic Firm of the Year, Singapore, our Firm was also voted Firm of the Year for the following categories in Singapore:
- Anti-Trust / Competition
- Compliance / Regulatory
- Corporate and M&A
- Employment
In addition, we received Honourable Mentions in the categories of Capital Markets, International Arbitration and Projects and Project Financing.
In Malaysia, our associate firm, Rahmat Lim & Partners, was voted Firm of the Year 2019 in the Corporate and M&A category.
In Indonesia, our network firm, Soemadipradja & Taher received Honourable Mentions in the categories of Anti-Trust / Competition, and Most Responsive Domestic Firm.
This year, 3,376 in-house lawyers and buyers of legal services in 12 jurisdictions took part in this survey to express who their preferred external counsel in various areas are and why. These in-house counsel conveyed which law firms had served them best across a range of practice areas, which have been the most responsive to their needs, as well as those which have made a significant impression on them during the past year. For more information, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill maintained its Band 1 ranking in the Legal section under the Singapore jurisdiction category in Chambers FinTech 2020. The publication notes that our Firm is “especially praised for its knowledge of the regulations in the FinTech space”, and that clients have acknowledged Allen & Gledhill to be “forerunners in their awareness of the laws”.
Chambers FinTech is a comprehensive guide to the leading FinTech professionals across the world. Chambers recommendations are based on several months of research by a dedicated, independent team conducting hundreds of in-depth interviews with leading innovators and experts worldwide.
For more information about our FinTech Practice, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill maintains its position as a leading law firm in South-east Asia in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2020, with the highest number of Tier 1 practice rankings and lawyers listed as Leading Individuals in Singapore. Our Firm has achieved more Tier 1 practice rankings and Leading Individuals as compared to last year. For more information about the rankings of Allen & Gledhill (Singapore), please click here.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners continues to be ranked Tier 1 in Banking and Finance, Corporate and M&A, Real Estate and Construction as well as Projects and Energy. They have improved their ranking to Tier 2 in Dispute Resolution and have six Leading Individuals. For more information about the rankings of Rahmat Lim & Partners, please click here.
Our Myanmar office continues to be ranked Tier 1 in Corporate and M&A and Projects, the only two categories covered by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific for Myanmar. Managing Director, Minn Naing Oo, continues to be listed as a Leading Individual in the two categories. For more information about the rankings of Allen & Gledhill (Myanmar), please click here.
Our network firm in Indonesia, Soemadipradja & Taher continues to be ranked Tier 1 in Dispute Resolution, Labour and Employment as well as Real Estate. They have two Leading Individuals. For more information about the rankings of Soemadipradja & Taher, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has been ranked in the 21st position by RSG India Report 2019 in its Top 50 Foreign Law Firms rankings. Our Firm is the highest ranked firm among firms without a United Kingdom or United States sole or dual headquarters.
The research for the 2019 RSG assessed Indian law firms against 150 different key performance indicators and foreign law firms against 50 indicators. The report is digitally published for the first time and more information about the report can be found here.
2019
Allen & Gledhill continues to achieve more Band 1 practice rankings in Singapore as compared to last year in the 2020 edition of Chambers Asia-Pacific. Our Firm has 54 ranked lawyers, the highest number of ranked lawyers in Singapore, and three of whom have been individually recognised as an ‘Eminent Practitioner’, a ‘Senior Statesperson’ and a ‘Star Individual’.
In Malaysia, our associate firm, Rahmat Lim & Partners, continues to be ranked Band 1 in Corporate/M&A and Projects, Infrastructure & Energy. They have nine ranked lawyers.
In Myanmar, Allen & Gledhill (Myanmar) has moved up its ranking to Band 1 in General Business Law in Myanmar. Two of our Myanmar lawyers were ranked.
In Indonesia, our network firm, Soemadipradja & Taher, continues to be ranked Band 1 in Dispute Resolution. They have five ranked lawyers, one of whom has been recognised as ‘Senior Statesperson’.
Allen & Gledhill has been ranked as one of the world’s top investigations practices by Global Investigations Review (GIR) in its annual GIR 100 2019 rankings.
The GIR 100 is an annual guide to the world’s leading cross-border investigations practices. The guide aims to determine the top 100 firms from around the world which handle sophisticated cross-border government-led and internal investigations.
For more information about our White Collar & Investigations Practice, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has maintained its Tier 1 rankings in Patent Contentious and Patent Prosecution in Asia IP Patent Survey 2019 Rankings.
Our associate Firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners has improved its ranking to Tier 1 for Patent Contentious category, while maintaining its Tier 2 ranking in Patent Prosecution in the same publication.
Allen & Gledhill has maintained its Tier 1 ranking for the Singapore category of World Tax 2020. We are the only Singapore law firm ranked in this tier.
World Tax is a directory which provides rankings and profiles of the most effective tax professionals, covering more than 100 jurisdictions located on every continent.
For more information, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill continues to be ranked Tier 1 across all Singapore practice areas covered by IFLR1000 in its latest 2020 edition. These are Banking and Finance, Capital markets: Debt, Capital markets: Equity, Corporate and M&A, Project Development, and Restructuring and Insolvency. In addition, Allen & Gledhill has 21 Partners recognised as leading individuals, the highest number among Singapore law firms. Of these 21 Partners, three have been recognised as ‘Market Leaders’, defined by IFLR1000 as “true leaders of their field…[who] have a track record of high profile innovative deals and are recognised as the standout performers in their country or practice area”. For more information about the IFLR1000 rankings of Allen & Gledhill (Singapore), please click here.
In Malaysia, our associate firm, Rahmat Lim & Partners, has improved its Corporate and M&A ranking to Tier 1. They have also improved their Project development: Power, and Project development: Oil and gas rankings to Tier 2. They maintained their rankings across the other practice areas covered by IFLR1000, namely, Banking and Finance (Tier 1), Capital markets: Debt (Tier 2), Capital markets: Equity (Tier 2), and Project development: Infrastructure (Tier 2). Rahmat Lim & Partners has ten Partners recognised as ‘Highly Regarded Lawyers’, the highest number among Malaysia law firms. Additionally, two Partners have been recognised as ‘Rising Stars’ in the 2020 edition of IFLR1000. For more information about the IFLR1000 rankings of Rahmat Lim & Partners, please click here.
In Myanmar, Allen & Gledhill (Myanmar) has maintained its Tier 2 ranking for the Financial and Corporate category. They have also achieved Tier 3 ranking for the first time in the Project Development category. Managing Director, Minn Naing Oo continues to be recognised as a ‘Highly Regarded Lawyer’. For more information about the IFLR1000 rankings of Allen & Gledhill (Myanmar), please click here.
Our network firm, Soemadipradja & Taher, has been ranked across all practice areas covered by IFLR1000 in Indonesia. They achieved Tier 2 ranking in the categories of Banking and Finance, Capital markets: Debt, Capital markets: Equity, Corporate and M&A, Project Development, and Project Finance. Additionally, they achieved Tier 3 ranking for the category of Restructuring and Insolvency. Two lawyers from Soemadipradja & Taher have also been recognised as ‘Highly Regarded Lawyers’ in the latest edition of the IFLR1000 rankings. For more information about the IFLR1000 rankings of Soemadipradja & Taher, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has won the Firm of the Year – Singapore award at the Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific Awards 2019 which took place in Hong Kong on Thursday, 19 September 2019.
In addition to the Firm of the Year award, our Firm was awarded the following Matters of the Year awards:
- Goldilocks Investment Co Ltd v Noble Group Ltd
- City Harvest Church Breach of Trust Case
- Global Switch lawsuit against Arup relating to data centre power outage
Bnchmark Litigation awards are judged according to innovation, complexity and impact. Winners were chosen according to research conducted through extensive interviews with litigations, dispute resolution specialists and their clients to identify the leading litigators and firms. The awards recognise the best litigation and dispute resolution firms and lawyers in each of the 12 jurisdictions covered by Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific directory. It is aimed at those who have displayed outstanding achievement in advising clients on local law matters, across a range of practice areas.
Allen & Gledhill continues to be ranked in Tier 1 in the Singapore Domestic category of the M&A Rankings 2019 report released by Asian Legal Business.
Our associate firm, Rahmat Lim & Partners has maintained its ranking in Tier 1 in Malaysia and our network firm, Soemadipradja & Taher is ranked in Tier 2 in Indonesia in the same report.
The rankings are based on information drawn from firm submissions, Thomson Reuters M&A data, interviews, editorial resources and market suggestions to identify and rank the top firms for M&A in Asia.
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Allen & Gledhill has been ranked as one of the world’s top Restructuring & Insolvency practices by Global Restructuring Review (GRR) in the third edition of GRR 100 rankings. This was unveiled at GRR’s third annual awards ceremony held on 15 June 2019 at Barcelona.
Our Firm also won the “Innovation in cross-border restructuring and insolvency” award for our involvement in the Noble Group Restructuring matter.
The GRR 100 is an annual guide to the world’s leading cross-border restructuring and insolvency practices. The guide aims to determine the top law firms from around the world GRR can recommend as a safe pair of hands for carrying out insolvency and restructuring work with an international dimension.
For more information about our Restructuring & Insolvency Practice, please click here.
In the 2019 edition of IAM Patent 1000, Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice has been ranked “Gold” in Litigation category and “Recommended” in Prosecution category.
Our Firm’s Partners, Dr Stanley Lai, SC and Low Pei Lin have also been recognised as top-tiered leading individuals in IAM Patent 1000 2019 for Litigation and Prosecution respectively.
In addition, our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners, has been listed in the Litigation and Transaction and Prosecution categories for the Malaysia chapter. Partner Pauline Khor has also been recognised for Litigation and Transactions.
IAM Patent 1000 is a directory dedicated to identifying the world’s leading patent professionals.
For more information, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has won several Editor’s Choice Impact Deal of the Year awards at the Asialaw Regional Awards 2019 in Hong Kong on 30 May 2019, for our involvement in the following matters:
- Noble Group restructuring (a landmark restructuring in the region)
- Acquisition by a consortium of Global Logistic Properties (Asia’s largest private equity buyout)
- Walmart acquisition of Flipkart (Walmart’s largest-ever investment in e-commerce)
The Editor’s Choice Impact Deal of the Year awards recognise firms involved in cases and deals which had a national and regional impact in 2018.
Results for the Asialaw Regional Awards are based on the research conducted for the 2019 edition of Asialaw guide and firms were judged on innovation, complexity and impact.
Allen & Gledhill has won the Deal Firm of the Year – South East Asia, 2018 at the In House Community: Counsel of the Year Awards 2019 which took place in Hong Kong on 30 May 2019.
The award is given to the law firm with the most number of winning deals as well as the law firm which worked on most unique, innovative and complex deals.
This is the first time that the publication is giving out this award for the different jurisdictions - International, South-east Asia, Middle-east and India.
Allen & Gledhill continues to be ranked Tier 1 across all Singapore practice areas covered by IFLR1000 in its latest 2019 edition. These are Banking and Finance, Capital Markets, Corporate and M&A, Project Development, and Restructuring and Insolvency.
In addition, 23 individuals have been ranked as leading lawyers, the highest number among Singapore law firms. Out of these 23 individuals, four have been recognised as “Market Leaders”, defined by IFLR1000 as true leaders of their field…[who] have a track record of high profile innovative deals and are recognised as the standout performers in their country or practice area.
In Myanmar, Allen & Gledhill (Myanmar) has maintained its Tier 2 ranking for the Financial and Corporate category, with Managing Director Minn Naing Oo recognised as a Highly Regarded lawyer.
In Malaysia, our associate firm, Rahmat Lim & Partners, has improved its ranking to Tier 1 for the Banking and Finance category, while maintaining its rankings across the other Malaysia practice areas covered by IFLR1000, namely Capital Markets, Corporate and M&A and Project Development. Rahmat Lim & Partners has the highest number of ranked lawyers in Malaysia with 12 Partners recognised in the 2019 edition of IFLR1000.
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Allen & Gledhill continues to be ranked Tier 1 for Patents and Copyright/Trademarks work in Singapore in the Intellectual Property Rankings 2019 report released by Asian Legal Business. The rankings are based on information drawn from firm submissions, interviews, market suggestions and other editorial resources to identify and rank the top firms for intellectual property in Asia.
In addition, our associate firm, Rahmat Lim & Partners, has been recognised in Malaysia in the same report.
For more information, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has once again maintained its ranking as a leading firm in the copyright & related rights category of the IP Stars 2019 Firm Rankings released by Managing IP.
Allen & Gledhill has maintained its Tier 1 rankings in Trademark Prosecution, Trademark Contentious and Copyright in Singapore in Asia IP’s 2019 Trademark and Copyright rankings.
Our associate Firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners was also ranked Tier 1 in Trademark Contentious and Tier 2 in Copyright by the publication.
Allen & Gledhill has been named as one of the top 25 law firms headquartered in Asia Pacific by the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Awards 2019.
We have also been recognised for our involvement in the “Legal Expertise” category for the following matters:
- Highly Commended: Legal advice to help clients access new markets and capital – Astrea IV private equity securitisation
- Commended: Legal advice to enable business growth and transformation - Online platform for specialist medical expertise
The winning matters were selected by the Financial Times on the basis of originality, leadership and impact.
The Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Awards honour the best work in the region. Now in its sixth year, these prestigious awards highlight law firms, in-house teams and outstanding individuals for the unique and innovative ways they deliver value to their clients.
Allen & Gledhill has received top tier rankings in the practice areas covered by Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific 2019. In the review conducted by Benchmark for work completed in 2018, our Firm continues to be ranked Tier 1 in Commercial and Transactions, Insolvency, International Arbitration – Domestic and Shipping, as well as Tier 2 in Construction. In addition, we have been ranked for the first time in Family and Matrimonial, White Collar Crime and in Tier 1 for Intellectual Property.
The number of ranked individuals from our Firm has increased as compared to last year, with eleven individuals ranked as Dispute Resolution Stars and two ranked as Future Stars.
Rahmat Lim & Partners, our associate firm in Malaysia, has been ranked Tier 2 in Construction and Tier 3 in Commercial and Transactions. The Firm is ranked for the first time in Tier 3 for Labour and Employment. On top of the practice rankings, one individual has been ranked as a Dispute Resolution Star and two have been ranked Future Stars.
Benchmark exclusively covers the litigation and disputes market, and researchers conduct extensive interviews with litigators and their clients to identify leading litigators and firms.
Allen & Gledhill has maintained top tier rankings in the trade mark contentious, trademark prosecution, patent contentious and patent prosecution categories of the IP Stars 2019 Firm Rankings released by Managing IP.
Our associate Firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners, has also been recognised as a leading firm in the same categories.
Allen & Gledhill has been named SE Asia Law Firm of the Year at the recent Asian Legal Business (ALB) SE Asia Law Awards 2019 which took place in Singapore on Thursday, 11 April 2019.
In addition to the regional award, we were awarded three other firm awards and received recognition for our involvement in two deal awards:
- Banking and Financial Services Law Firm of the Year
- Real Estate Law Firm of the Year
- Restructuring and Insolvency Law Firm of the Year
- Debt Market Deal of the Year (Premium) - Temasek Financial (IV)'s Establishment of MTN Programme
- M&A Deal of the Year (Premium) - Grab’s Acquisition of Uber’s SE Asian Business (which also involved our Malaysian associate firm, Rahmat Lim & Partners and our Myanmar office)
In total, our Firm picked up six awards, the most to be given to a South-east Asian law firm at this Awards ceremony.
The ALB SE Asia Law Awards is an annual event celebrating the success of the region’s leading law firms, in-house counsel, dealmakers and deals.
For more information on the ALB SE Asia Law Awards, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has been ranked as one of the world’s top international arbitration practices by Global Arbitration Review (12th edition) in its annual GAR100 rankings for the 7th consecutive year.
Firms are ranked based on a number of factors, including track record, value of current portfolio as counsel, number of arbitral hearings and the number of arbitrator appointments a firm’s members are handling over a two-year period.
For more information about our International Arbitration Practice, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has been named Regional Law Firm of the Year – Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa at the Global Competition Review (GCR) Awards 2019. The results were announced at the awards ceremony in Washington, DC on 26 March 2019. The Regional Firm of the Year award is based on peer and client nominations and recognises a firm based solely in Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa on the basis of having an outstandingly successful 2018 in terms of the quality and quantity of its competition work.
This is the first time Allen & Gledhill has won the regional law firm award and is the first South-east Asian law firm to receive this award. Allen & Gledhill also won the GCR Award for Behavioural Matter of the Year – Asia-Pacific, Middle East & Africa in 2013.
GCR is a leading antitrust and competition law journal and news service published by Law Business Research. Now in its ninth year, the awards by GCR honours the world’s top antitrust lawyers, academics, economists and government enforcers for their competition work in 2018.
Allen & Gledhill has been recognised by The Asian Lawyer Asia Legal Awards 2019 for our involvement in the following three deal awards:
- Finance Deal of the Year: Insolvency and Restructuring – Noble Group restructuring
- M&A Deal of the Year: Southeast Asia – Grab’s acquisition of Uber’s Southeast Asia business (which also involved our Malaysian associate firm, Rahmat Lim & Partners)
- TMT Deal of the Year – Walmart’s acquisition of Flipkart
The winning deals were selected by The Asian Lawyer on the basis of innovation, significance and groundbreaking element.
The Asia Legal Awards honour the best work in the region. Across the coverage of practice areas and disciplines, The Asia Legal Awards intend to identify the most important transactions and cases with the most complex and outstanding legal work in Asia.
The Asia Legal Awards celebrate stand-out achievements of law firms over the past 12 months, based on research by editorial staff of The American Lawyer, The Asian Lawyer and China Law & Practice.
Allen & Gledhill has been recognised by Asian-mena Counsel for our involvement in the following matters which were named Deals of the Year 2018:
- Astrea IV private equity securitisation
- Bayfront Infrastructure Capital infrastructure project finance securitisation
- ESR-Reit merger with Viva Industrial Trust
- Grab acquisition of SE Asian operations of Uber (which also involved our Malaysian associate firm, Rahmat Lim & Partners)
- MUFG Bank acquisition of 40% stake in Bank Danamon
- Posco ICT SIAC arbitration proceeding against Hitachi
- Temasek retail bond
- Walmart acquisition of Flipkart
- TMH Telecom Myanmar IPO (led by our Myanmar office)
Our Firm received the highest number of wins among Asian law firms.
In addition, Allen & Gledhill received Honourable Mentions for the following matters:
- Ascendas-Singbridge Group and Temasek Holdings investment in Ascendas India Logistics
- DyStar Global Holdings (Singapore) v Kiri Industries & Ors
- IHH Healthcare acquisition of Fortis Healthcare
Asian-mena Counsel is part of the In-House Community, which comprises over 21,000 individual in-house lawyers and those with a responsibility for legal and compliance issues within organisations along the New Silk Road, who they reach through the annual In-House Congress circuit of events, Asian-mena Counsel magazine and Weekly Briefing, and the In-House Community online forum.
Allen & Gledhill has been named Regional Law Firm of the Year at the prestigious International Financial Law Review (IFLR) Asia Awards 2019 in Hong Kong on 7 March 2019. In addition, Allen & Gledhill has received a country law firm award, being Most Innovative National Firm of the Year (Singapore).
This is the fourth time Allen & Gledhill has won the regional law firm award, having been the first South-east Asian law firm to receive this award in 2014. It is the 18th time the Firm has won the country law firm award for Singapore since the inception of the IFLR Asia Awards in 2000.
The IFLR Asia Awards recognise the region’s most innovative deals, and the firms that worked on them. First published in 1982, IFLR is the market-leading financial law publication for lawyers specialising in international finance in financial institutions, corporates and in private practice.
In the 2019 edition of World Trademark Review 1000 (WTR 1000), Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice has been listed as a leading practice in two categories, namely, Enforcement and Litigation and Prosecution and Strategy.
Our Firm’s Partners, Dr Stanley Lai, SC and Low Pei Lin have also been recognised as leading individuals in WTR 1000 2019 for Enforcement and Litigation and Prosecution and Strategy respectively.
In addition, our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners, has been ranked as a leading intellectual property practice and Pauline Khor has been recognised as a leading individual for both Enforcement and Litigation and Prosecution and Strategy.
WTR 1000 is a directory dedicated to identifying the world’s leading trade mark legal service providers.
For more information, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has been recognised as a leading law firm in Singapore and Myanmar in the latest edition of The Legal 500 Asia Pacific. In Singapore, our Firm has the highest number of Tier 1 practice rankings and lawyers listed as Leading Individuals. In Myanmar, our Yangon office continues to be ranked Tier 1 in Corporate and M&A and Projects, the only two categories covered by The Legal 500 for Myanmar.
In Malaysia, our associate firm, Rahmat Lim & Partners has achieved more Tier 1 practice rankings and an increase in the number of Leading Individuals as compared to last year. In addition, RL&P has been ranked for the first time in TMT and Shipping.
Allen & Gledhill has been recognised as a leading law firm in Singapore and Myanmar in the latest edition of Chambers Asia-Pacific. In Malaysia, our associate firm, Rahmat Lim & Partners, continues to be ranked top tier in Corporate/M&A and Projects, Infrastructure and Energy.
Our Firm has achieved more Band 1 practice rankings as compared to last year. In addition, Chambers has created a new firm category for Corporate Investigations/Anti-Corruption in which A&G has been ranked Band 1.
Chambers has also released the 2019 edition of Chambers FinTech from the Professional Advisers Series in which A&G has been ranked Band 1 in the Legal section under the Singapore jurisdiction.
2018
Allen & Gledhill’s Competition & Antitrust Practice has been ranked in the top band of “Elite” by Global Competition Review (GCR) in its 2018 GCR100 rankings. Our Firm also maintained the accolade of “Singapore’s leading competition practice” since 2012 when GCR100 began to include Singapore as part of its research.
GCR is a leading antitrust and competition law journal and news service published by Law Business Research.
Allen & Gledhill has been voted Asian-mena Counsel In-House Community Firm of the Year 2018 in seven categories, maintaining the same number of categories in which our Firm has been voted in last year.
Apart from being awarded the Most Responsive Domestic Firm of the Year, Singapore, our Firm was voted Firm of the Year for the following categories in the Singapore jurisdiction:
- Banking and Finance
- Compliance/ Regulatory
- Corporate and M&A
- Employment
- Taxation
- Telecommunications, Media & Technology
In addition, we received Honourable Mentions in the categories of Capital Markets, International Arbitration, Litigation and Dispute Resolution and Real Estate/Construction.
In Malaysia, our associate firm, Rahmat Lim & Partners, was voted Firm of the Year 2018 in the Aviation category, the second time it has received recognition in this category.
Asian-mena Counsel has included Myanmar in its survey for the first time this year. Our Yangon office has been named Firm of the Year 2018 in the category of Litigation and Dispute Resolution, and received Honourable Mentions for the categories of Banking and Finance, Compliance/ Regulatory and Corporate and M&A.
A record 2,376 in-house counsel and buyers of legal services in 13 jurisdictions took part in this survey this year to express who their preferred external counsel in various areas are and why. These in-house counsel conveyed which law firms had served them best across a range of practice areas, which have been the most responsive to their needs, as well as those which have made a significant impression on them during the past year. For more information, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has been awarded the i-Law Maritime Law Firm of the Year at the Lloyd’s List Asia Awards 2018. According to Lloyd’s List, our Firm, together with winners of the other award categories, has demonstrated “bold leadership to stimulate creative thinking and new solutions” in the shipping industry.
The Lloyd’s List Awards portfolio celebrates excellence in the global maritime community, where entrants demonstrate innovation and success in the judging year, displaying leadership, best in class and endeavour in enhancing the business of shipping regionally and globally.
Allen & Gledhill continues to be ranked in Tier 1 in the Singapore Domestic category of the M&A Rankings 2018 report released by Asian Legal Business.
Our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners, has also maintained its ranking in Tier 1 for M&A in Malaysia in the same report.
The rankings are based on information drawn from firm submissions, Thomson Reuters M&A data, interviews, editorial resources and market suggestions to identify and rank the top firms for M&A in Asia.
For more information, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has been ranked as one of the world’s top Restructuring & Insolvency practices by Global Restructuring Review (GRR) in the second edition of GRR 100 rankings.
Firms are ranked based on a number of factors, including the size of their team, the number of countries they served, the hours they billed, the clients they attracted and the value and volume of cases they worked on, and the level of complexity and innovation that was required in individual cases.
For more information about our Restructuring & Insolvency Practice, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has received top tier rankings in the practice areas covered by Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific 2018. In the review conducted by Benchmark for work completed in 2017, our Firm has been ranked Tier 1 in Commercial and Transactions, Insolvency, International Arbitration – Domestic and Shipping and Tier 2 in Construction.
In addition, nine individuals have been ranked Dispute Resolution Stars and three have been ranked Future Stars.
Rahmat Lim & Partners, our associate firm in Malaysia, has been ranked Tier 3 in Commercial and Transactions and Tier 2 in Construction with two individuals ranked Future Stars.
Benchmark exclusively covers the litigation and disputes market, researchers conduct extensive interview with litigators and their clients to identify leading litigators and firms.
In the 2018 edition of IAM Patent 1000, Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice has been listed as a leading practice in the two categories researched by the publication, namely, Litigation and Transactions as well as Prosecution.
Our Firm’s Partners, Dr Stanley Lai, SC and Low Pei Lin have also been recognised as leading individuals in IAM Patent 1000 2018 for Litigation and Transactions and Prosecution respectively.
In addition, our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners, has been listed as a leading practice in the same categories for the Malaysia chapter. Partner Pauline Khor has also been recognised as a leading individual for Litigation and Transactions.
IAM Patent 1000 is a directory dedicated to identifying the world’s leading patent professionals.
For more information, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has been named SE Asia Law Firm of the Year and SE Asia Deal Firm of the Year at the recent Asian Legal Business (ALB) SE Asia Law Awards 2018 which took place in Singapore on Thursday, 10 May 2018.
In addition to the two top firm awards, we were awarded Singapore Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year and received recognition for our involvement in the following three deal awards:
- Equity Market Deal of the Year (Midsize) - Keppel-KBS US REIT's IPO
- Equity Market Deal of the Year (Premium) - NetLink NBN Trust’s IPO
- M&A Deal of the Year (Premium) - Privatisation of Global Logistics Properties
In total, our Firm picked up six awards, the most to be given to a South-east Asian law firm at this Awards dinner.
The ALB SE Asia Law Awards is an annual event celebrating the success of the region’s leading law firms, in-house counsel, dealmakers and deals.
For more information on the ALB SE Asia Law Awards, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has been named Singapore Firm of the Year 2018 at the Who’s Who Legal Awards in London on Tuesday, 8 May 2018.
This is the 12th time that Allen & Gledhill has won the country award for Singapore, having first received it in 2006. The country awards recognise firms which achieve the highest number of nominations in a particular jurisdiction across the research conducted by Who’s Who Legal.
The Who’s Who Legal Awards, organised by Who’s Who Legal, issues awards to individuals and firms that have performed exceptionally well in their research.
Allen & Gledhill has been recognised by Asian-mena Counsel for our involvement in the following matters which were named Deals of the Year 2017:
- EMAS Chiyoda Subsea restructuring
- NetLink NBN Trust IPO
- Indika Energy high-yield bridge-to-bond financing
- ThaiBev's acquisition of Myanmar Distillery (led by our Myanmar office)
Allen & Gledhill received the most number of wins among the Singapore law firms.
In addition, Allen & Gledhill also received Honourable Mentions for the following matters:
- Flipkart's acquisition of eBay India
- Tender offer by Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets and Arran Investment for 31 per cent. of Energy Development Corp
- Global Logistic Properties going-private acquisition
- Myingyan power project (led by our Myanmar office)
The winning deals were selected by Asian-mena Counsel based on innovation. complexity, size and uniqueness.
Asian-mena Counsel is part of the In-House Community, which comprises over 21,000 individual in-house lawyers and those with a responsibility for legal and compliance issues within organisations along the New Silk Road, who they reach through the annual In-House Congress circuit of events, Asian-mena Counsel magazine and Weekly Briefing, and the In-House Community online forum.
Allen & Gledhill has been awarded Maritime Law Award at the Seatrade Maritime Awards Asia 2018 held in Singapore on Wednesday, 25 April 2018.
The Seatrade Maritime Awards Asia recognises efforts from companies that constantly rise above challenges and go the extra mile to outperform itself.
For more information about our Maritime & Aviation practice, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill continues to be ranked Tier 1 for Patents and Copyright/Trademark work in Singapore in the Intellectual Property Rankings 2018 report released by Asian Legal Business.
The rankings are based on information drawn from firm submissions, interviews, market suggestions and other editorial resources to identify and rank the top firms for intellectual property in Asia.
In addition, our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners, has been recognised in Malaysia in the same report.
Allen & Gledhill has been ranked as one of the world’s top international arbitration practices by Global Arbitration Review (GAR) in its annual GAR100 rankings for the sixth consecutive year.
Firms are ranked based on a number of factors, including track record, value of current portfolio as counsel, number of arbitral hearings and the number of arbitrator appointments a firm’s members are handling over a two-year period.
For more information about our International Arbitration Practice, please click here.
Allen & Gledhill has once again maintained its ranking as a leading firm in the Copyright category of the IP Stars 2018 Firm Rankings released by Managing IP.
Allen & Gledhill has been recognised by The Asian Lawyer Asia Legal Awards 2018 for our involvement in the following three deal awards:
- M&A: South-east Asia Deal of the Year: Global Logistic Properties’ acquisition by Chinese consortium
- Securities – Debt Deal of the Year: Alibaba’s $7 billion investment grade notes offer
- Real Estate Deal of the Year: Mercatus Co-operative Ltd.’s $1.7 billion acquisition of Jurong Point
The winning deals were selected by The Asian Lawyer on the basis of innovation, significance and groundbreaking element.
The Asia Legal Awards identify and celebrate the stand-out achievements of law firms over the past 12 months, based on research by editorial staff of The American Lawyer, The Asian Lawyer and China Law & Practice.
Allen & Gledhill has once again maintained top tier rankings in the patent contentious and patent prosecution categories of the IP Stars 2018 Firm Rankings released by Managing IP.
Our associate Firm, Rahmat Lim & Partners, in Malaysia has been recognised as a leading firm in the patent contentious and patent prosecution categories.
Allen & Gledhill has been named Regional Law Firm of the Year 2018 at the prestigious International Financial Law Review (IFLR) Asia Awards 2018 in Hong Kong on Thursday, 1 March 2018.
In addition to the regional law firm of the year award, Allen & Gledhill has received two country law firm awards, being Most Innovative National Firm of the Year (Singapore) and Most Innovative National Firm of the Year (Myanmar).
This is the third time Allen & Gledhill has won the regional law firm award, having been the first South-east Asian law firm to receive this award in 2014. It is the 17th time the firm has won the only country law firm award for Singapore since the inception of the IFLR Asia Awards in 2000.
However, this is the first time the firm is winning the country law firm award for Myanmar since its Yangon office became operational in 2014, a significant recognition of the high quality of legal services it provides in Myanmar and its rapid development into a leading firm in the country.
Christina Ong, Co-Chairman and Senior Partner of Allen & Gledhill, said “It is a great honour and privilege to be receiving these three firm awards from IFLR. The awards are a testimony of our strong presence domestically in Singapore and Myanmar as well as in the wider region”.
In relation to Allen & Gledhill being named Regional Law Firm of the Year for the third time, Penny Goh, Co-Chairman and Senior Partner, said “We are as always grateful for the confidence that our clients have placed in us as well as the opportunities they have presented to us to work on some of the region’s most innovative deals”.
Receiving the country law firm award for Myanmar in Hong Kong, Minn Naing Oo, Managing Director of Allen & Gledhill’s Yangon office, said “We are delighted to receive this prestigious recognition from IFLR, which is an affirmation of the quality of the legal services and the value-added insights we provide to our clients in this emerging market. We are thankful to our clients for the confidence they have placed in us in Myanmar”.
The IFLR Asia Awards recognise the region’s most innovative deals, and the firms that worked on them. First published in 1982, IFLR is the market-leading financial law publication for lawyers specialising in international finance in financial institutions, corporates and in private practice.
Earlier this year, Allen & Gledhill was also named Singapore (Domestic) Law Firm of the Year 2018 by Chambers & Partners at the Chambers Asia-Pacific Awards 2018. This is the fourth time that Allen & Gledhill has received this recognition from Chambers & Partners, the most among the local law firms, since the inception of the Awards in 2010.
In the latest edition of Chambers Global released last month, Allen & Gledhill continued to maintain its position of having the most number of practices ranked in Band 1 and the most number of lawyers recognised as Leading Individuals among the Singapore law firms. In the same edition, Minn Naing Oo is named as a Leading Individual for Myanmar.
Allen & Gledhill has been awarded Singapore (Domestic) Law Firm of the Year 2018 by Chambers & Partners at the Chambers Asia-Pacific Awards 2018 held in Hong Kong on Thursday, 1 February 2018.
This is the fourth time Allen & Gledhill has received this recognition from Chambers & Partners, the most among the local law firms, since the inception of the Awards in 2010.
The Chambers Asia-Pacific Awards honour the work of national and international law firms across the region on the basis of research carried out for the 2018 edition of the Chambers Asia-Pacific guide. They recognise a law firm’s pre-eminence in key countries in the region and also reflect notable achievements over the past 12 months including outstanding work, new growth areas and excellence in client service.
In the 2018 edition of World Trademark Review 1000 (WTR 1000), Allen & Gledhill’s Intellectual Property Practice has been listed as a leading practice in two categories, namely, Enforcement and Litigation and Prosecution and Strategy.
Our Firm’s Partners, Dr Stanley Lai, SC and Low Pei Lin have also been recognised as leading individuals in WTR 1000 2018 for Enforcement and Litigation and Prosecution and Strategy respectively.
In addition, our associate firm in Malaysia, Rahmat Lim & Partners, has been ranked in the “Bronze” category and Pauline Khor has been recognised as a leading individual for both Enforcement and Litigation and Prosecution and Strategy.
WTR 1000 is a directory dedicated to identifying the world’s leading trade mark legal service providers.
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Allen & Gledhill has once again been ranked Tier 1 in the trade mark contentious and trade mark prosecution categories of the IP Stars 2018 Firm Rankings released by Managing IP.
Our associate Firm, Rahmat Lim & Partners, in Malaysia has been ranked Tier 2 in the trade mark contentious and trade mark prosecution categories.