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Drew & Napier wins Singapore Patent Firm of the Year at Asia IP Awards 2019

12 Nov 2019

Drew & Napier took home the Singapore Firm of the Year award for Patent at the annual Asia Intellectual Property (Asia IP) Awards ceremony held in Taipei on 8 November 2019.

Seasoned Oil & Gas lawyer Chua Tju Liang returns to Drew & Napier

01 Nov 2019

We are pleased to announce that seasoned corporate lawyer, Mr Chua Tju Liang re-joins Drew & Napier today as an Equity Director. He is a significant addition to our Oil & Gas practice, as well as our Technology practices.

Drew & Napier acted for mainboard-listed property developer Tuan Sing Holdings Limited and its wholly owned subsidiary Superluck Properties Pte Ltd in the establishment of a secured Multicurrency Medium Term Note Programme and subsequent notes issuance

23 Oct 2019

Drew & Napier acted for mainboard-listed property developer Tuan Sing Holdings Limited and its wholly owned subsidiary Superluck Properties Pte Ltd in the establishment of a secured Multicurrency Medium Term Note Programme and subsequent notes issuan...

Updates to Singapore’s Employment & Labour Law, contributed by Directors Benjamin Gaw and Elizabeth Tong

18 Oct 2019

The International Comparative Legal Guide to Data Protection 2019

25 Jul 2019

As the invited authors of the Singapore Chapter in The International Comparative Legal Guide to Data Protection 2019, the Data Protection and Privacy Practice Group shares updates on Singapore’s personal data protection framework as well as rec...

Telecoms & Media in Singapore 2019 - article in Lexology GTDT

11 Jul 2019

As the invited authors of the Singapore Chapter in Lexology Getting the Deal Through – Telecoms and Media 2019, the TMT practice group led by Lim Chong Kin shares insights into key legal and industry developments in the Singapore telecoms and media s...

Director Yvonne Tang quoted in Asia IP article on the challenges behind managing copyright

11 Apr 2019

Director Yvonne Tang shared with Asia IP’s readers the common challenges faced in the management and exploitation of copyright, particularly in copyright infringement.

Director Lim Siau Wen quoted in Asia IP article on leveraging IP for businesses

27 Nov 2018

Director Lim Siau Wen shared her thoughts with Asia IP on the key trends and developments affecting the leveraging of IP. This is especially so in financial strategy and mergers & acquisitions, where businesses begin to realise the value of IP as int...

Director Yvonne Tang quoted in Asia IP article on the inclusion of IP in trade agreements

28 Aug 2018

Director Yvonne Tang shared her thoughts with Asia IP on the inclusion of IP protection into trade agreements. The article explored the reasons why IP protection should be included as well as the downsides/oppositions against it.

Contractors can serve payment claims for work done prior to termination of construction contract

07 Nov 2019

In Stargood Construction Pte Ltd v Shimizu Corporation [2019] SGHC 261, the High Court clarified that the application of the Court of Appeal’s holding in Far East Square on the architect being functus officio is limited to a situation where the const...

The Name’s Bond

05 Nov 2019

The Singapore bond market has been busy with October seeing much activity. Bonds, notes, MTNs – the jargon can seem complex and daunting. This note demystifies some of the basics and is best read with a vesper martini in hand.

A bank’s liability for executing a customer’s fraudulent instructions

05 Nov 2019

The UK Supreme Court in Singularis Holdings Ltd (in Official Liquidation) v Daiwa Capital Markets Europe Ltd [2019] UKSC 50 upheld an earlier decision that a bank was liable to a customer for breach of its Quincecare duty (named after Barclays Bank p...