Date Published: 20 October 2017.
The Partners mentioned: Lisa Theng, Bill Jamieson, Tan Min-Li and Ken Chia.
CNPLaw LLP (“CNP”), formerly known as Colin Ng & Partners LLP, is pleased to announce that the firm is recognised in IFLR1000 2018 Financial and Corporate edition. The rankings and editorials released by IFLR1000 ranks the firm’s following practice areas, including Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, Mergers and Acquisitions, Project Development and Restructuring & Insolvency.
The lawyers recognised by the publication
- Ms Tan Min-Li: Highly Regarded for Capital Markets
- Mr Bill Jamieson: Highly Regarded for Investment Funds
Feedback from our clients
Restructuring and insolvency
“Excellent understanding of commercial implications. Quick to respond and address concerns.”
Capital Markets
“CNP’s strengths are the accessibility of its lawyers and the reasonableness of the fees.”
M&A
“Highly professional and efficient.”
“CNP delivers high quality work for good value. Ken Chia and Joshua Khng were patient managing five different clients on the same file.”
“They are able to provide legal advice clearly and provide various options to consider. In the course of their work they have shown patience, accommodating the client’s busy schedule and responsive in our many queries yet not yielding on legal principles.”
Lisa Theng
“Excellent and reliable.”
Ken Chia
“Ken is very hands-on with the matters assigned and most importantly always approachable.”
“Overall pleasant experience working with Ken who understood my needs and ensured that I was adequately protected legally.”
The lawyers from the Banking & Finance Practice Group (BFPG) have always taken pride in providing a comprehensive range of banking and finance services to our clients, including domestic and foreign international banks, other financial institutions as well as non-bank lenders and borrowers, and foreign legal firms acting for parties outside Singapore.
Our banking & finance practice covers the whole spectrum of domestic and international banking & financing work, including restructurings, financings and financial institutions advisory work. We can draw upon a broad base of partners, senior, mid-level and junior associates, all with strong and varied banking & finance product line and country experience.
Our reach is further widened and enhanced by our ability to draw upon the resources of our network of correspondent firms in the region and globally.
Every business involves an amalgam of various stakeholders, such as investors, shareholders and directors. Ideally, each of these stakeholders should have a common vision of what is best for the company. However, this is rarely the case when individual interests are factored into the equation.
Stakeholder conflicts (regarding issues such as breaches of fiduciary duties, derivative actions, shareholder oppression, management deadlocks, management compensation, dividend payments and buy-outs) can be a thorny issue and can leave a company crippled if not addressed promptly.
Given the diversity of interests at play, we appreciate that a multi-faceted approach is usually the most cost-efficient method of resolving stakeholder conflicts. Therefore, we provide clients with ready access to an integrated team of lawyers (combining the experience of our corporate, dispute resolution and employment law practices where applicable) who will effectively engage the relevant stakeholders in discussions on how best to resolve their differences amicably.
More often than not, clients are able to avoid costly protracted court proceedings and resolve stakeholder conflicts with discretion and expediency.
Having handled transactions for numerous local and foreign companies across Asia, extending across a wide range of businesses and industries, we have accumulated significant experience advising on an extensive range of corporate finance transactions.
This includes Initial Public Offerings (IPOs), Right issues, Private placements, Convertible bonds issues, Warrants issues, Capitalisation issues, Privatisations, Takeovers and reverse takeovers, Share buybacks, Interested person transactions, Employee share option schemes and performance share schemes, Compliance with the requirements of the Singapore Exchange.
Companies periodically assess and deliberate ways to improve their financial results, and one way of achieving this may be through a successful corporate restructuring exercise, undertaken pursuant to the applicable laws.
A corporate restructuring exercise may involve the acquisition, disposal, consolidation or amalgamation of assets or shares. Other reasons that may compel a company to restructure may be to prepare the company for a sale, merger or management buyout. In almost all cases, legal and financial reasons will dictate the approach and outcome.
By leveraging on our corporate and insolvency law practices within the firm, we aim to help clients achieve their restructuring objectives by offering strategic advance planning, assessing the possible business outcomes and legal restrictions, and managing the interests of the stakeholders involved, namely the shareholders, creditors, customers, and employees.
We provide legal advisory services to fund managers, investors and investee companies in relation to both open-end funds and closed-end funds that deal with a variety of asset classes and employ different investment strategies including hedge funds, private equity funds, venture capital funds, mutual funds, commodity funds and exchange traded funds.
Each M&A deal entails the confluence of multiple legal disciplines. That is why we take great care when assembling a team for each deal, ensuring that there is an optimal mix of specialisation in the clients’ identified areas of concern, such as tax, employment and intellectual property, and necessary industry-specific experience.
We provide support to our clients at every stage of the deal. We will be there at the beginning of the process, helping to facilitate the negotiations between the parties and advising on the structure of the transaction. Once the parties have reached a consensus, we meticulously prepare the necessary documentation. Recognising that M&A deals are often the first page of a new chapter for the parties involved, we also provide post-transaction support to ensure a smooth transition such as the preparation of shareholder agreements, employment agreements, and other relevant commercial documentation.
Our dispute resolution lawyers have worked on matters of various sizes and across industries. Our vast experience enabled us to provide strategic advice on all aspects of insolvency. We have also worked under third party funding arrangements where applicable.
Practice Areas:
Merger and Acquisition, Corporate Restructuring, Corporate Finance – Capital Markets, Funds, Banking and Finance, and Insolvency.
