Roland Chooi
Associate Director
Head of Shipping Finance
Roland is a registered foreign lawyer in Incisive Law and has over 8 years’ experience working for the maritime and transport departments in leading international law firms in Singapore.
His work mainly focuses on corporate and finance matters which usually involves drafting and reviewing various finance (including asset finance), security documents, corporate documents, legal opinions and other related documentation including but not limited to dealing with various ship registry and attend to various closing meeting. Roland also has vast experience in ship sale and newbuild transactions and acting as an escrow agent or representative lawyer for Sellers or Buyers in each transaction.
Bachelor of Law Degree (Hons), University of London
Bachelor Degree of Business Administration (Hons) from University Tunku Abdul Rahman
Certificate in Legal Practice, Legal Profession
Qualifying Board of Malaysia
The Law Society of Singapore
English
Mandarin
Bahasa Malaysia
- Successfully obtained an anti-suit injunction against a foreign investor who commenced proceedings in breach of an exclusive jurisdiction clause in favour of Singapore Courts.
- Successfully represented subsidiaries of a Chinese bank before the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC) in a US$170 million claim against a director, shareholder, and executive chairman of a Singapore-listed company for breach of his obligations under letters of support.
- Successfully acted for a Singapore bank in a dispute with its customer in excess of US$40 million over banking facilities, letter of credit, and performance guarantee.
- Acted for a Singapore commodity trading company in a US$300 million fraud claim involving financing based on forged warehouse receipts. Successfully resisted pre-action discovery and interrogatories applications before the Singapore Court and obtained an injunction against the adverse parties.
- Acted for a Singapore commodity trading company in a fraud case arising from the trading and storage of gold and precious metals in warehouses.
- Acted for a terminal and arrested a VLCC for an allision caused by the VLCC against the terminal’s berth.
- Acted for an oil trading company in the arrest of multiple vessels arising out of the insolvency of an oil supplier.
- Advised global insurance broker Pacific Prime on its multi-million acquisition of Singapore-based insurance tech company CXA Group.
- Advising Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation as lead arranger for the purchase of two LNG new buildings by SPVs owned by BW Pavilion (a joint venture between BW and Pavilion Energy), (Deal of the Year, 2016. Maritime Money: Project Finance).
- Advised Oro Negro as issuer of the largest high yield bond (US$725million) ever issued in the Norwegian market (Norwegian Bond Deal of the Year, 2015. Marine Money Offshore).
- Advised Singapore based Epic Shipping group on its refinancing and subsequent merger with Greek based Pantheon.
- Advising on a US$900 million bond issue restructuring.
- Special counsel for US trustee in bankruptcy relating to major international bankruptcy.
- Preparation of tender documents for Sentosa Cove Development.
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