• Claims under guarantees and indemnities
• Contractual disputes
• Company law
• Debt and receivables recovery
• Defamation (libel and slander)
• Directors’ duties
• Hearings before various tribunals
• Insolvency of corporations and individuals
• Insurance
• Intellectual property
• International and domestic arbitration
• Landlord and tenant
• Medical negligence
• Property disputes
• Sale and purchase of companies and assets
• Sale of goods
• Shareholder and partnership disputes

• Capital cases
• Penal Code offences including but not limited to assault offences, maid abuse allegations, road rage cases, sex crimes, gang offences and cheating offences
• Drug offences
• Corruption offences
• Financial crimes including offences under the Securities and Futures Act (SFA) as well as the Financial Advisors Act (FAA)
• Offences under the Moneylenders Act
• Offences investigated by the Ministry of Manpower
• Road traffic offences
• Immigration and customs offences, including the challenging of forfeiture orders
• Assistance with Coroner’s Inquiries
• Assistance and support during investigation stage of proceedings
• Filing and management of criminal complaints to the police and the Magistrate Courts

RHTLaw Taylor Wessing’s Debt Recovery Practice Group provides the highest level of support for all types of debt recovery needs for a wide range of clients, from local and foreign financial institutions to companies with large accounts receivable portfolios where recovery is crucial to the cash flow of the business. It accords with our focus on helping clients succeed in all aspects of their business.

The Group has extensive experience in recovering all types of debts, both secured and unsecured, for all kinds of clients ranging from individual creditors to the largest banks operating on a global scale. Such debts include credit facilities, hire purchase, vehicle-related claims and claims relating to any other form of financing arrangements, including non-recourse loans.

Using the latest technology, we have the ability to provide our clients with a cost-effective solution for recovering their outstanding debts. We also advise clients on the best mode of enforcing their debt depending on the nature and value of the debt and the debtor’s circumstances.

We are also able to investigate the assets of delinquent debtors using our wide and established network of investigators to uncover assets that can be attached by way of enforcement proceedings.

Our services include:

• Background Checks/Deep Referencing
• Commencing legal proceedings and obtaining judgments and orders thereon
• Conducting execution proceedings including Writs of Seizure and Sale, Garnishee Proceedings, Examination of Judgment Debtor Summonses, Writs of Possession, Writs of Delivery and Writs of Equitable Execution
• Conducting investigations on debtors
• Credit Worthiness
• Drafting settlement agreements, guarantees and indemnities
• Dunning debtors
• Entering into arrangements with debtors to restructure their secured and unsecured debts
• Filing Bankruptcy proceedings for individuals and Winding Up proceedings for companies
• Issuing letters of demand
• Issuing statutory demands with a view to Bankruptcy and Winding Up proceedings
• Negotiating, arranging and monitoring instalment payments

• Adoption of children
• Custody of children
• Matrimonial and family disputes
• Preparation of wills
• Obtaining grants and resealing of grants of probate and letters of administration for estates
• Appointment of trustees for persons who are mentally incapable of handling their estates

RHTLaw Taylor Wessing’s financial disputes team assists clients on a broad range of banking and financial services disputes involving litigation, arbitration and alternative dispute resolution. We advise on a broad range of clients, including financial institutions and their counterparties.

Our global network and experience along with our extensive knowledge that comes from having unrivalled banking, capital markets and derivatives practices in the world’s main financial hubs sets us apart from others in the industry.

Companies that enter into arbitration agreements often want commercial certainty, speed, choice of impartial and independent arbitrators with industry-specific or transaction-specific expertise, enhanced probability of enforceability, and confidentiality.

Our international arbitration offering will allow clients to achieve that because we have experience as counsel in international arbitration across a wide spectrum of industries governed by many major arbitral rules. We have a strong litigation team that is able to act for you to set aside or enforce arbitral awards in Singapore, as well as in numerous other jurisdictions through our Taylor Wessing international alliances.

As a firm, we have an excellent corporate practice that has been recognised by the IFLR1000 and Legal 500. We are thus able to draw on experienced colleagues across many transactional disciplines, in Singapore and numerous other jurisdictions, to infuse our work with real commercial sensitivity. As some arbitration clauses provide for mediation (especially those involving Chinese entities) either before arbitration or as part of an arbitration, our strong parallel experience in mediation would allow us to serve you fully in this regard. It is often best to design your dispute resolution strategy at the beginning of the deal. In this regard, we are able to provide commercially-sound legal input on the drafting of clients’ dispute resolution clauses, and assist with negotiation of these clauses, to suit clients’ commercial needs. We will consider all issues holistically with clients’ commercial needs in the foreground. Our experience with many major institutional rules also allows us to give clients procedural advantage right from the start, from our advice on procedural provisions that can go (or should not go) into dispute resolution clauses.

We have in our team skill sets derived from experience in arbitration institutions, thus we are very familiar with the strategic and tactical advantages – and disadvantages – that certain procedural postures via application of various arbitral rules will confer. Being able to have a Tribunal with a strong grasp of the particular transactional dynamics of your dispute appointed is important. This is especially so for disputes in technical sectors. Our understanding of the Tribunal appointment process will help you avoid certain pitfalls.

The Practice advises and acts for Protection & Indemnity Clubs, shipowners, shipyards, insurers, amongst others, on a wide range of matters, including but not limited to:

• Non-contentious commercial and operational matters
• Trade finance and cargo disputes
• Charterparties and bills of lading disputes
• Marine casualties, salvage and towage
• Shipbuilding, conversion and repair
• Marine insurance
• Corporate, ship finance and enforcement of mortgagee
• Ship sale and purchase
• Disputes relating to oil shipment and trading
• Collusion and Salvage
• Arresting and releasing of vessels
• Constituting funds for collision matters, not limited to personal injuries