OUR INTERNATIONAL NETWORK
Given the number of cross border transactions that we are involved in and the needs of our clients to be represented globally, our law firm has entered into strategic alliances with the following law firms.
SNR Denton (formerly, Denton Wilde Sapte)
Beginning September, 2010, SNR Denton is a new name in the legal marketplace. At the same time, SNR Denton is a firm with a 225-year pedigree of excellence and professionalism in service to law firm clients. Denton Wilde Sapte (Denton) and US firm Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal (SNR) have combined to form SNR Denton.
SNR Denton has emerged as a top 25 law firm by number of lawyers and professionals, serving clients from 48 locations in 32 countries, including the US, UK, Europe, the Middle East, Russia, South-East Asia and a network of exclusively associated firms in Africa and the CIS. Their US offices include Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Phoenix, San Francisco and Washington, DC. They are also the largest firm in the Middle East with offices in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Amman, Cairo, Kuwait, Muscat, Doha and Riyadh. In relation to Africa, SNR Denton has associate offices in Algeria, Burundi, Ghana, Kenya, Libya, Mauritius, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.
Joining the complementary top tier practices of its founding firms, SNR Denton offers business, government and institutional clients premier service and a disciplined focus to meet evolving needs in eight key sectors: Energy, Transport and Infrastructure; Financial Institutions and Funds; Government; Health and Life Sciences; Insurance; Manufacturing; Real Estate, Retail and Hotels; and Technology, Media and Telecommunications.
In addition, SNR Denton has an enviable reputation in providing a seamless service to clients in the area of Islamic Finance and Trade Financing. In relation to trade finance, SNR Denton holds awards from the three main trade finance magazines – Trade Finance, Global Trade Review and Trade and Forfaiting Review. They have been awarded "Best Trade Finance Law Firm" by Trade Finance magazine for the last eight years and have won the same accolade from Global Trade Review magazine for the last four years and from Trade & Forfaiting Review magazine for the last three years.
For Islamic finance, in 2009, SNR Denton won awards for two of their Islamic finance deals. One of their award-winning deals was a sukuk issued by Islamic Development Bank and managed by Standard Chartered. It won cross border deal of the year and got a special mention in the Singaporean category too. It is the first Singapore dollar-denominated sukuk issued by a foreign issuer as well as being the largest sukuk issue to date in the Singapore market.
In 2010, SNR Denton's Middle East practice has been voted the "Best Foreign Law Firm in the Middle East for Capital Markets and Corporate Actions 2009" by Emeafinance and also the Emeafinance award for the "Best Pan-African Law Firm" in 2010. It also bagged the "Most Innovative Deal of the Year" award for 2010 and "United Arab Emirates Deal of the Year" award for 2010 from Islamic Finance News.
Lawyers from SNR Denton now sit in our offices in Singapore to facilitate the servicing of clients. SNR Denton's lawyers in Singapore include Jonathan Solomon and Matthew Cox, Partners in SNR Denton’s Banking and Financial Markets Group, as well as Jessica Kenworthy, a lawyer in the firm's Structured Trade Finance group.
For detailed information on SNR Denton, please visit their website: http://www.snrdenton.com.
LuatViet
The emergence of Vietnam as a foreign investment hub has led to us to enter into an association with LuatViet, one of the premier local law firms in Vietnam with offices in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi.
LuatViet provides a full range of corporate and commercial legal services in practice areas such as banking and finance, domestic and foreign investment, M&A, securities and capital market and dispute resolutions. LuatViet has an excellent client database which includes Deloitte Vietnam Company Ltd, Colgate Palmolive (Vietnam), Coca-Cola Beverage Vietnam Ltd, Baxter Healthcare, Baring Private Equity Asia Pte Ltd, Michelin Asia-Pacific Pte Ltd, Panasonic Vietnam Co. Ltd, Port of Singapore Authority International Pte Ltd, Nike Inc, Vietnam, Shell Vietnam, Indochina Capital and Suzuki Corporation.
LuatViet was recently awarded the “Law Firm of the year 2009” by the Vietnam Legal Newspaper in cooperation with Ministry of Justice, Vietnam Bar Federation and Vietnam Lawyers Association .
For detailed information on Luatviet, please visit their website: http://www.luatviet.com.