RPC Premier Law

In Singapore, RPC operates as a joint law venture known as RPC Premier Law. As one of a few international law firms operating in Singapore as a joint law venture, we can provide our clients with seamless advice from a single entity as well as an extensive range of advice on multi-jurisdictional transactions involving English and Singapore law. Our clients can also receive representation in the Singapore courts through Premier Law LLC. We draw together the international expertise and resources of RPC and the local knowledge of Premier Law to provide an exceptional service. Our team of leading lawyers combines decades of experience in the region with unrivalled expertise in our lawyers’ respective markets.

We offer a comprehensive range of services with expertise in legal sectors including corporate and commercial; dispute resolution (including banking and financial disputes); energy; international arbitration; insurance and reinsurance; and, marine and international trade.

The firm has a strong Indonesian practice, with Tandip Singh having been named by Chambers as one of the leading foreign lawyers for Indonesian transactions. Our close relationship with our Indonesian clients and excellent working relationship with experienced Indonesian lawyers allows us to provide substantive, strategic and practical advice to our clients in a market that is not easy to navigate.

The firm’s commercial disputes practice, led by Siraj Omar, has a strong reputation for acting and advising on cases against banks and other financial institutions, including advising bank employees involved in various wide-ranging investigations of alleged market manipulation and other improper conduct.

We also have one of the largest and most well respected insurance teams in Asia, with unrivalled, in-depth knowledge of the Asia insurance industry. We are seen as the ’go-to‘ law firm for insurance-related legal issues and a trusted partner for the majority of insurance firms. The team, led by Mark Errington, handles the full range of contentious and non-contentious work, including defence of claims, advising insurers as monitoring and/or coverage counsel, complex disputes work, policy wording and new product development, and corporate and regulatory advice across the region. We are ranked in band one, the highest tier, in the Chambers and Partners Asia Pacific Directory 2016 for the work we undertake on behalf of our insurance clients.

The marine and international trade team acts for international underwriters, P&I Clubs, ship owners, charterers, freight forwarders, cargo recovery agents, banks and trading companies, litigating and arbitrating disputes involving bill of lading, charter party, marine insurance policy, P&I and FD&D claims. The team, led by Iain Anderson, regularly helps clients navigate international sales contract and documentary credit disputes, and claims arising from other forms of transportation including trucking contracts, rail and air movements and storage and warehousing, including many with a cross-border focus.