Ince Law Alliance Bolsters Singapore Team

 

The appointments return the senior team to full strength and broaden the range of expertise at the firm. The team at Ince Law Alliance, comprising Ince & Co Singapore LLP and Incisive Law LLC, now has the capability and capacity to provide dedicated support to clients across the full spectrum of contentious and non-contentious matters.

 

Edgar Chin has been appointed Joint Managing Director alongside Bill Ricquier with immediate effect. Chin has been with the Incisive team since 2014 and previously worked as a claims director at an International Group P&I Club where he spent almost five years working closely with owners, brokers and underwriters throughout Asia. He has extensive and in-depth legal and practical experience in the shipping and P&I industry.

 

Meanwhile, Felicia Tan, formerly of Allen & Gledhill, has joined the Ince Law Alliance Litigation Team as a Director. Tan acts on a full range of legal issues and high-level cases including but not limited to commercial disputes (including insolvency); shareholders’ litigation (including oppression of shareholder, shareholders’ disputes and breach of director’s duties); contentious commodities-based advice; infrastructure, property and construction disputes; judicial review related advice; general corporate litigation and employment related advisory and representation.

 

Moses Lin joins the team from Hill Dickinson. Lin is a commercial litigation and arbitration lawyer with experience in handling a broad spectrum of commercial disputes. Although his practice spans all industry sectors, his focus is primarily on marine, commodities and international trade. Lin is particularly experienced with charterparty disputes, cargo loss/damage claims, demurrage/despatch and cargo off-specification claims, and has acted for commodities traders in FOSFA and GAFTA arbitrations.

 

Finally, two new junior Associates, Justin Seet and Samantha Ch’ng, join the team to offer support on broad spectrum of non-contentious matters.

 

Bill Ricquier, Joint Managing Director, Incisive Law LLC, welcomed the new additions to the team: “These appointments underline our commitment to increasing the breadth and quality of services that we offer at Ince Law Alliance. By investing in senior hires in key areas, Ince Law Alliance is now perfectly poised to both grow its capabilities within Singapore, as well as leverage our expertise to cement our position as an internationally recognised Formal Law Alliance.

 

“We have continued to build a team with a broad spectrum of expertise, and one fully equipped to advise our clients on the full spectrum of financial, regulatory and operational challenges encountered in today’s maritime markets.”

 

He continued: “In the current climate for shipping, the need for counsel on both contentious and non-contentious matters is essential to help our customers do business effectively.

 

“From contract negotiation and arbitration, to corporate litigation, charterparty disputes and loss and damage claims, Ince Law Alliance continues to help shipowners, operators and charterers to navigate a complex and ever-changing market landscape.”

 

Associate Esther Quah will continue to support Bill Ricquier in Ince Law Alliance’s corporate practice.

 

Over the past two years, the team has advised on the Singapore law aspects of a number of high profile transactions. This includes advising the lenders on the BW Pavilion LNG financing, which was recognised as Marine Money Deal of the Year (Project Finance East), and advising Oro Negro as issuer of the largest high yield bond (US$725million) ever issued in the Norwegian market, recognized by Marine Money Offshore as the Norwegian Bond Deal of the Year Award.