One of Singapore’s most recent Foreign Law Practice (FLP) entrants, Nabarro, has made its first local partner hire this week –Norton Rose construction foreign legal counsel Glenn Cheng – who has laterally moved to help build the firm’s nascent construction and arbitration practice.
Cheng, a specialist in engineering and construction law, focuses on oil & gas, civil and marine engineering, on and off shore infrastructure and building projects. He is a panel arbitrator and emergency arbitrator with the SIAC and also sits on arbitrator panels with the KLRCA, the DIAC and the PIAC in Vietnam.
Cheng will join Emerson Holmes, who has led the new Singapore office since its launch in September 2010. Holmes, who specialises in construction and engineering arbitration and mediation, has moved to Singapore from London.
Holmes and Cheng will be supported by Zoë Stollard, a UK-qualified construction lawyer.
The firm’s move to open an office in Singapore is an unusual one, as its only other international office is based in Brussels. Nabarro received approval for its Singapore office launch in September 2010. According to a statement released by the firm, the decision to open the office was made to take advantage of the growing reputation of Singapore as a leading independent international arbitration centre. This is in addition to a need to support a number of the firm's current construction and engineering clients and contacts have operations in Singapore and in the wider Asian region.ALB
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