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Gregory is a banking and finance partner based in Singapore, with particular experience in asset finance and project finance. With over 15 years’ experience, Gregory is renowned for structuring, documenting, restructuring, and enforcing high-value, complex, multi-jurisdictional transactions. He also leads the Asia ship finance team.

His practice spans a wide range of sectors, including transportation (shipping, aviation, and logistics), trade, life sciences, energy, and technology. Gregory’s clients include financial institutions, private credit providers, export credit agencies, leasing houses, asset owners, and Fortune 500 companies. He regularly advises on corporate and commercial matters, and has deep experience in multi-jurisdictional competing security enforcement actions and restructurings, particularly those arising from insolvency and distressed situations.

Gregory is featured as a leading and recommended lawyer in a number of Asia-Pacific jurisdictions by independent legal directories. He most recently won the Lexology Client Choice Awards 2024 for the Banking in Singapore category and was named in India Business Law Journal’s International A-List, 2025. He is ranked by Chambers & Partners for Banking & Finance and The Legal 500 lists him as both a Leading Partner and a Next Generation Partner, highlighting his “fine reputation for ship finance and the broader banking and finance area” and his ability to “excel in complex financing and restructuring issues”. Gregory is also recognised by IFLR1000 as a notable practitioner for banking and also project finance.

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Gregory Xu is an established practitioner based in Singapore. He regularly advises a range of global lenders and Indian banks on a variety of financing transactions.

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