Shipping: Domestic
Asia-Pacific Guide 2025 : Singapore
Band 3
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+65 6535 1944About
Provided by Shook Lin & Bok LLP
Our Shipping & Commodities Practice advises on both contentious and non-contentious matters. Its team of experienced dispute resolution lawyers advises and acts for a global clientele in a wide range of shipping and commodities-related disputes including those involving ship management, shipbuilding, ship sale and purchase, charterparties, bills of lading, cargo misdelivery and cargo loss/damage, as well as demurrage or despatch and cargo quality claims.
Our team has experience in arbitrations conducted under various institutions such as the SIAC, SCMA, ICC, LMAA and LCIA, as well as those conducted in accordance with the rules of trade associations such as GAFTA and FOSFA.
Aside from litigation and arbitration, the team is also actively involved in restructuring and insolvency matters, advising banks and non-bank creditors, companies, regulators and insolvency practitioners, judicial managers and liquidators.
On the non-contentious side, the team’s highly regarded transactional lawyers advise on various transactional matters including ship sale and purchase, ship financing, secured and unsecured loans, capital markets, and mergers and acquisitions.
Chambers Review
Shook Lin & Bok has a noteworthy team of seasoned shipping finance and litigation lawyers, often guiding clients on financing and restructuring matters. The team regularly handles both litigation and arbitration procedures, including cargo misdelivery, charter party, bill of lading and demurrage disputes.Its clients typically consist of major banks, judicial managers and commodities trading firms.
Moses Lin is a key contact for clients
Work Highlights
- Shook Lin & Bok acted for DBS Bank in respect of its attempts to enforce its rights against ships, shipowners and bareboat charterers.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The SLB team are very knowledgeable and possess sound working knowledge of the law, which renders them, in our books, experts in admiralty and maritime law."
"There is strong leadership and guidance from the top. Information, knowledge and experience is well communicated throughout the team to the associate levels."
"The SLB team are very knowledgeable and possess sound working knowledge of the law, which renders them, in our books, experts in admiralty and maritime law."
"There is strong leadership and guidance from the top. Information, knowledge and experience is well communicated throughout the team to the associate levels."