Paul Supramaniam... is know for exceptionally high quality... a leading individual".(Chambers Global)
Dato Paul AJ Supramaniam
+65 63377105
+65 9830 5702
paul@lawasia.com
LL.M., Honours, University of Cambridge (University Wright Rogers Law Scholar)
B Soc Sci, Honours, University of Keele
ATCL; LTCL (Pianoforte), Trinity College of Music London
MSIArb
Qualified to practice in the Supreme Court of England and Wales
Qualified to practice in the Supreme Court of Brunei
Bahasa Indonesia, Malay and Tamil
Dato Paul Supramaniam is the Founder of Law Asia, an international law firm headquartered in Singapore, with associated offices across Asia and Europe. Previously, he has had an illustrious career of 30+ years with major international firms as the first Singaporean to become a Partner at a major international law firm in London, then as Asian Managing Partner of a leading British law firm and as Senior English Partner Asia at Latham & Watkins (one of the world’s top law firms) until 2007.
He is currently leading a significant reverse takeover in the region involving Target Assets in Europe, North America and Asia, and has led some of the largest regional cross border mergers and acquisitions, private equity and privatization transactions including the funding of the Colony Capital acquisition of Raffles Holdings Limited (M&A Deal of the Year 2005 by Asian Legal Business) and the KKR and Silver Lake Partners acquisition of Agilent Technologies for US$2.66b.
He has been ranked Most Outstanding Cross-Border M&A Lawyer – Singapore 2018 by Corporate LiveWire, Mergers and Acquisitions Lawyer of the Year 2018 for Myanmar by Finance Monthly Global Magazine, Global Leading Lawyer 2017 by Lawyers Worldwide Awards Magazine, Mergers and Acquisitions Lawyer of the Year 2017 for Singapore by Finance Monthly Global Magazine, Mergers and Acquisitions Lawyer of the Year 2017 for Myanmar by Finance Monthly Global Magazine, Mergers and Acquisitions Lawyer of the Year 2016 for Myanmar by Finance Monthly Global Magazine, M&A Deal Maker of the Year 2015 for Singapore by Acquisition International Magazine , Most outstanding M&A lawyer of the year 2015 for Singapore by Corporate LiveWire, M&A lawyer of the year 2015 for Singapore by Finance Monthly Global Magazine and Mergers and Acquisitions Lawyer of the Year 2014 for Myanmar by Finance Monthly Global Magazine.
He is a Singapore nominated member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport, Lausanne and was previously a member of the Professional Affairs Committee of the Singapore Academy of Law.
He has sat as an independent director on the regional Board of CEPSA (a Spanish MNC) and Plexus Group (UK-listed) and is a senior legal advisor to Konecranes (OMX-listed), Fortum (OMX-listed) and Inmobi (Indian mobile advertiser).
Paul was the Wright Rogers Law Scholar of Cambridge University, is currently the President of the Singapore Oxford and Cambridge Society, a past President of the Singapore UK Association and a former Vice-President of the British Chamber of Commerce in Singapore. He is also a member of the India Business Roundtable and a former member of the Singapore British Business Council. He was previously a senior officer in the Singapore Armed Forces and has been conferred various honors/ medals by Singapore, Malaysia, the United States of America and the United Kingdom.
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