India Desk
Our dedicated India Desk helps provide streamlined and dedicated support to Indian entities seeking advice on Singapore law and legal services in Singapore as well as Singapore-based and other ASEAN clients doing business with or investing in Indian entities.
The India Desk is managed by the firm’s Managing Partner, Peter Doraisamy, a Singapore-qualified lawyer who has significant experience working with Indian clients and Indian-related matters.
The firm’s India Desk team consists of:
- Mato Kotwani, a Singapore-qualified lawyer who focuses on dispute resolution, white collar crimes, data protection, employment law, and regulatory matters.
- Pranav V. Kamnani, an Indian-qualified disputes lawyer who focuses on international arbitration. Pranav is also certified for admission to the New York State Bar.
Clients benefit from our understanding of Indian business culture. Over the years, the firm has built strong working relationships with reputable Indian law firms across various practice areas and industry sectors, including but not limited to, commercial litigation, international arbitration, M&A and corporate advisory work, shipping, international trade, and intellectual property.
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As a testament to our commitment to serving clients with India-Singapore cross-border legal needs, we are proud to have been recognised by the India Business Law Journal as an ‘International Firm to Watch’ in 2024. |
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We are instructed by Indian law firms acting for their clients in India or Singapore, on transactions and disputes.
We also act for Indian clients based in Singapore and in India seeking to do business in Singapore or have their disputes resolved here, and often also for Singaporean entities involved in disputes with Indian parties.
Our dedicated India desk helps provide streamlined and dedicated support to:
- Indian entities seeking advice on Singapore law and legal services in Singapore, and
- Singapore based and other ASEAN clients doing business with or investing in Indian entities.
Our Lawyers
The India Desk is managed by the firm’s managing partner, Peter Doraisamy, a Singapore-qualified lawyer who has significant experience working with Indian clients and Indian related matters. Clients benefit from our understanding of Indian business culture.
Over the years, the firm has built strong working relationships with reputable Indian law firms across various practice areas and industry sectors. This includes, but is not limited to, commercial litigation, international arbitration, M&A and corporate advisory work, shipping and international trade, and intellectual property.
Our India Desk is well supported by seasoned professionals practising across a wide range of legal fields in Singapore, providing the Desk a strong foundation and back-end support in complex disputes and cross-border transactions where both Indian and Singaporean jurisdictions apply. It enables us to offer our clients complete and comprehensive services, dovetailing across different practice areas.
Our Work
Our original core competence, commercial litigation and arbitration, now has the benefit of expertise in other practice areas. Our lawyers routinely handle both domestic and international arbitration, having been engaged on significant and complex disputes ever since the firm was established. Please refer to our page on our arbitration practice for details: link
We have worked on cross-border investments, mergers and acquisitions, business contracts and can be of immense help to clients wishing to establish business entities in Singapore. We are also well placed to offer regulatory advice and assistance.
Indicative Practice Areas
Our abilities arise from intensive work in different industry sectors: IT, telecom, healthcare, BPOs, solar power, renewable energy, shipping, banking, to name a few. We are well placed to render services in most practice areas, including:
- Dispute resolution – litigation and arbitration
- Company law
- Private Equity and M&A,
- Commercial contracts
- Foreign Investment into India, Singapore and other jurisdictions, particularly within ASEAN.
Indian business entities and private individuals searching for international business opportunities look at Singapore as an obvious choice. This gives Singaporean entities, whether investors, service providers or others, attractive business prospects. The SIAC has become the most preferred arbitral institution in Asia, giving rise to an increased need for Singapore-India legal services. We believe PDLegal can play an important role.
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Chambers & Partners – Asia Pacific 2023
PDLegal LLC is pleased to announce that Managing Partner, Peter Doraisamy, has been recognised and ranked by Chambers & Partners (Asia Pacific 2023 for Shipping: Domestic: Litigation). The following quotes appear with Peter’s ranking: –
“Peter Doraisamy of PDLegal in Singapore is a noted shipping lawyer in the market. He handles a wide range of disputes, including ship grounding, cargo and fraud-related cases” – Chambers & Partners – Asia Pacific 2023
“He is excellent in litigation. He has very good control of the case, collecting the right evidence and putting this into a very successful trial.” – Shipping Litigation Client
Chambers and Partners is the leading independent professional legal research company operating across 200 jurisdictions. Chambers and Partners delivers detailed rankings and insights into the world’s leading lawyers and law firms.
This ranking is a testimony to the expertise and experience of the Firm’s shipping practice and would not be possible without the support of our clients and friends.
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Peter Doraisamy
Group Managing Partner
“Peter is highly intelligent, with a keen awareness for issues. He often proposes simple, practical solutions for seemingly complex issues.”
-Chambers & Partners – Asia Pacific 2024
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Gerard Quek
Group Deputy Managing Partner
Gerard Quek – Lawyer Profile
Gerard’s main areas of practice include fraud and asset recovery, commercial disputes, financial services law and regulation and shipping litigation.
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Paul Papon Charoenpao
Managing Partner PDLegal Thailand
Paul Papon Charoenpao – Lawyer Profile
Papon specializes in Financial Services, Venture Capital & Private Equity Funds, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Corporate.
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Nazim Khan
Senior Partner
Nazim Khan – Lawyer Profile
Nazim specialises in complex high value Commercial Litigation and International Arbitration.
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Andrew Lee Weiming
Partner
Andrew Lee Weiming – Lawyer Profile
In October 2017, Andrew was featured as one of “Asia’s brightest young legal minds under 40 years of age making waves” by Asian Legal Business.
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Mato Kotwani
Partner
Mato Kotwani – Lawyer Profile
Mato’s practice areas encompass civil and commercial litigation, criminal litigation (white-collar and general crime), employment law and other advisory work
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Ivan Lee
Partner
Ivan Lee – Lawyer Profile
Ivan Lee earned his Bachelor of Laws (Honours) degree from the University of Leeds in 2017 and became a practicing Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore in 2019.
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Gursharn Singh
Counsel
Gursharn’s areas of practice focuses on litigation and international arbitration.
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T Dinesh
Counsel
Dinesh’s main areas of practice are Payment Services / Data Privacy, Mergers & Acquisition (M&A), Funds, Employment Law, and Trust.
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Yzabel Dumaguing
Counsel
Yzabel Dumaguing – Lawyer Profile
Yzabel’s main areas of practice are complex commercial and civil litigation (including cross-border commercial and corporate disputes), shipping, international arbitration and trade, energy, natural resources & mining, and offshore.
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Glenn Chua
Counsel
Glenn’s main areas of practice include fraud, asset recovery and investigations, complex commercial and cross-border disputes, restructuring and insolvency, international arbitration, and mediation. Glenn also specialises in white-collar criminal defence work.
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Pranav Kamnani
Counsel (Registered Foreign Lawyer)
Pranav’s main areas of practice include complex commercial and cross-border disputes, international arbitration, and advisory services, with a primary focus in disputes relating to joint-ventures, shareholder disputes and construction. Pranav also advises and represents clients in industry sectors, such as, shipping, technology and telecommunication, aviation and defence, and oil and natural gas.
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Vincent Lee
Senior Associate
Vincent Lee main areas of practice include Corporate, Commercial & Civil Litigation, Criminal Law, Employment, Probate, Wills & Estate Matters.
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Karanaporn Monsatta
Senior Associate
Karanaporn main areas of practice include Corporate & Commercial Advisory, Mergers & Acquisitions, Capital Markets Funds, and Employment.
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Lester Kuo
Associate
Lester Kuo – Lawyer Profile
Lester Kuo’s practice areas Corporate & Commercial Advisory, Corporate, Commercial & Civil Litigation, Employment, Mergers & Acquisitions, China Desk
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Elizabeth Wong
Associate
Elizabeth Wong Profile
Elizabeth’s main areas of practice include civil and commercial litigation, criminal litigation.
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Benyapa Hadkaewsakul
Associate
Benyapa Hadkaewsakul’s main areas of practice include Corporate & Commercial Advisory, Regulatory and Compliance, Foreign Direct Investment, Employment, Mergers & Acquisitions.
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Thao-Nguyen NGUYEN
Associate (Vietnam Desk)
Thao-Nguyen’s main areas of practice include corporate & commercial advisory, mergers & acquisitions, employment, foreign direct investment, and regulatory and licensing.
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Sorawich Techapornhiran
Associate
Sorawich Techapornhiran’s main areas of practice include Corporate, Commercial & Civil Litigation and Criminal Practice.
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Wisansaya Supasit
Associate
Wisansaya’s main areas of practice include civil and commercial litigation, criminal law, shareholder disputes, and mediation.
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