Tham Wei Chern, Director, Fullerton Law Chambers LLC  

Wei Chern’s practice covers commercial and corporate disputes, including shareholders' disputes and breaches of directors' duties, and securities-related and banking litigation. Wei Chern also handles construction disputes, insolvency matters, employment disputes and defamation claims.

Wei Chern frequently represents clients in the High Court of Singapore and the Court of Appeal. He also acts for clients in international arbitrations.

David Chew, Partner and Founder, DHC Capital  

David has over 22 years of experience in restructuring, turnaround and special situations having worked as an advisor with Ernst & Young and Arthur Andersen, investment banker with Morgan Stanley, in senior management as a CRO, CFO and interim CFO and Board member to distressed companies.

David has worked with and advised private and publicly listed corporates, bank creditors, bond holders, alternative capital providers and distressed investors across the full range of the restructuring transaction cycle, including crisis stabilisation, business and strategic reviews, strategic option analysis including planning and implementing in and out of Court solutions, operational restructuring and turnaround, debt restructuring and schemes of arrangement, liquidity management initiatives, distressed M&A, rescue financing, refinancing and recapitalisations. 

Mark O’Reilly, Director, Borrelli Walsh  

Mark O’Reilly is a Director based in the Singapore office with over 12 years of experience specialising in corporate insolvency and restructuring across Asia, including Singapore, Australia, Indonesia, India, PRC and various offshore jurisdictions.

Mark has led numerous corporate insolvency assignments including but not limited to Creditors’ Voluntary Liquidations, Compulsory Liquidations, Receiverships and Schemes of Arrangement.

Mark has also led various restructuring engagements, acting for both debtors and creditors, with a focus on business reviews, debt restructuring/refinancing negotiations, asset divestments and operational stabilisation across a broad range of industries including shipping, offshore, property, mining services, and financial services.

Mark is identified as a leading advisor in Who’s Who Legal: Restructuring & Insolvency Advisors (non-legal) in 2019. 

Justin Ferrier, Managing Director, Asian Private Credit, Blackrock  

Justin has over 25 years' experience in the finance industry, with the last 16 years in private lending and special situation investments in Asia. Prior to joining BlackRock, Justin founded Myo Capital which focused on investing in private lending and special situation investments. Prior to that he was a Director at ADM Capital and a member of the firm’s investment committee.

Sean Pepper, Managing Director, Tor Investment Management  

Heng Cheam, Managing Director, Strategic Investment Group, Asia, Deutsche Bank AG, Singapore  

Heng CHEAM leads the private credit origination and trading at Strategic Investment Group (SIG), Deutsche Bank. He is responsible for originating and executing investment opportunities as well as loan portfolios across Asia. Heng is on the Supervisory Board of Huarong Rongde Asset Management. Prior to joining SIG in 2008, Heng worked on credit proprietary desk at BAML and in investment banking at Lehman Brothers in London and New York respectively. 

George Long, Founder and Chief Investment Officer, LIM Advisors  

George established LIM in 1995. Before he established LIM, he set up and ran the Asian division of what became Barclays Global Investors (BGI) while serving on the executive committee for Barclays Group Asia and the global investment committee in London. George is also a former governor of the CFA Institute. Additionally, he established the Hong Kong Society of Financial Analysts in 1992 the Hong Kong/China chapter of the Alternative Investment Management Association in 2002.  He trained as a credit analyst at a major bank in New York and was an international banking officer covering Asia from New York.  

Akihito Watanabe, Managing Director, Pierfront Capital  

Aki joined Pierfront Capital in 2019 and is actively involved in the origination, structuring, negotiating and monitoring of transactions at the firm, with a core focus on real estate. He has over 15 years of experience in the Asia-Pacific real estate sector, including deal origination, investments and financings throughout the capital structure.

Prior to Pierfront Capital, he served for ten years as a Managing Director focusing on Asia real estate investments for Varde Partners, a global credit investment fund. He was previously with Lehman Brothers in the Global Real Estate Group focusing on the provision of corporate advisory services to real estate related companies and real estate secured debt investments. 

Jason Kardachi, Managing Director, Borrelli Walsh 

Jason Kardachi is a Managing Director based in the Singapore office and leads the firm’s restructuring, insolvency and forensic work in Singapore and South East Asia.

Jason has led and managed complex debt restructurings and turnarounds, liquidations and receiverships and provided practical and commercial solutions to key stakeholders.

Jason is the founding member of the TMA Southeast Asia (“SEA”) chapter and is the first President of the regional TMA chapter. He was recently awarded the TMA International Chapter Impact Award 2019, and is the first practitioner outside of the United States to have received an Individual award since the launch of the TMA Awards in 1993.

Before joining Borrelli Walsh, Jason was a Managing Partner of Teak Capital Partners, an advisory and investment firm focused on special situation and distressed investments across Asia Pacific.

Jason has 25 years of corporate advisory and restructuring experience in Asia Pacific, the last 19 of which have been in Hong Kong and Singapore, initially at PricewaterhouseCoopers and then as Head of Special Situations Asia at HSBC.

Christophe Montane, Senior Vice President, APAC Sales, Intralinks 

Christophe joined Intralinks in 2019 as SVP, APAC Sales. Christophe’s mission is to lead the sales and marketing organization to a journey of innovation and continued growth to become the leading technology enabler for strategic transactions.
Previously, Christophe led the APAC Financial Service Sales Organization of FujiXerox Global Services, based in Singapore. He has two decades of experience in the technology and outsourcing sectors providing thought leadership and execution capability required for key large clients in their digital transformation programs. 

Jacqueline Chan, Partner, Milbank 

Jacqueline Chan is a partner in Milbank's Singapore office, and was previously resident in Milbank’s Hong Kong office. She has extensive experience advising many of the largest companies, creditors, bondholder committees, banks, private equity and sovereign wealth funds on a wide range of complex international restructurings, international corporate finance and merger and acquisition transactions.

Her transactions span a broad range of industries from oil and gas, shipping, mining and financial services, to name a few. Jacqueline is consistently recognized by leading industry publications such as Chambers, Legal 500, IFLR, Best Lawyers, Euromoney, Private Equity International, among others, as a leading ranked lawyer for her excellence in the areas of Restructuring and Insolvency, Banking & Finance, and Corporate/Mergers & Acquisitions, and the transactions she leads regularly receive “Deal of the Year” awards from leading industry publications.

Vaibhav Totla, Managing Director, Head- Special Situations Group, CLSA Capital Partners  

Vaibhav Totla is currently the Managing Director and Head of the Special Situations Strategy at CLSA Capital Partners. He brings 15 years of experience, most of which were spent in the  Asian credit and special situations space. Vaibhav has spent many years investing in eth special situations/ distressed debt space in markets like India, Australia, Singapore/ SE Asia and Indonesia.

Before CLSA, Vaibhav was with the Noble Group from 2014-2017 where he was a part of a team focussed on developing a special situations investing business focused on the commodities sector.

Prior to his tenure at Noble, Vaibhav was the Head of Research for Asia ex-Japan for the BAML Special Situations team during the 2008-2014 period. Vaibhav led the research and analytics efforts for the Asia Ex-Japan transactions and was also responsible for the India businesses. 

Nien Rafles Siregar, Managing Partner, Siregar Setiawan Manalu Partnership (SSMP)  

Nien Rafles Siregar is managing partner of SSMP.

His practice focuses on complex bankruptcy and restructuring issues as well as business and employment litigations.

Prior to establishing SSMP, Nien Rafles Siregar was a former partner of a prestigious litigation law firm in Indonesia.

Bobby Rahman Manalu, Partner, Siregar Setiawan Manalu Partnership (SSMP)   

Bobby Rahman Manalu is a partner of SSMP.

His practice focuses on complex commercial issues as well as competition, aviation and bankruptcy litigations.

Prior to establishing SSMP, Bobby Rahman Manalu was a former partner of a reputable litigation law firm in Indonesia.

Kurkye Wong, Executive Director, Argyle Street Management Limited (“ASM”)  

Kurkye is the Executive Director at Argyle Street Management Limited (“ASM”), a hedge fund manager founded in 2002 in Hong Kong. Mr Wong specialises in distress and private credit investment in Asia, in particular China, Thailand and Indonesia. He has previously worked at KPMG and FTI Consulting in Hong Kong. He holds a Special Qualification in Insolvency and is a fellow member of the HKICPA. He holds a Bachelor of Business from the Queensland University of Technology, a Juris Doctor from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and obtained a certificate in a Master’s Degree in Financial Engineering from the Stanford University. 

Jacqueline Rachelle Yee, Managing Director, Macallan Capital 

Jacqueline cut-her-teeth in Restructuring and Special Situations M&A at BNPParibas-Fortis (NL, UK & USA), Société Générale Investment Bank (UK & FR, covering EMEA), Bankers Trust and Paladin (Australia), and E&Y (NZ & HK/CHN); and thereafter, in interim CEO / CIO roles transforming, pivoting and scaling organisations in APAC globally, and as Board advisor to USA and European businesses restructuring expansions into Asia. With an established global track record in both sell-side and buy-side, Jacqueline has advised and financed multi-billion dollars in iconic distressed and complex restructurings. She serves on Boards and has authored reports that have been implemented into corporate, institutional and public policies.

Jacqueline returned to Singapore in 2019 following a 30-year international career to share her experience and offer her services to advance enterprise economic growth drivers.

Multilingual and a summa cum laude graduate, Jacqueline is a Money 20/20 RiseUp Asia Finalist, a CA, an ASEAN Scholar and a Singapore Squash medallist.

Angelina Bopp, Head of Restructuring, ASEAN, Standard Chartered Bank 

Angelina is a qualified solicitor and experienced credit risk professional with 20 years’ experience in corporate, commercial, investment banking and private equity structures. She is a restructuring and insolvency expert, helping to identify and implement turnaround and recovery strategies for stressed and distressed trading businesses and investment vehicles through varied economic cycles across a broad range of industry sectors, in UK, Europe, ASEAN and Australia.

She has management level people responsibilities covering global, regional and matrix reporting lines. She leads direct and remote customer facing work-out teams who are responsible for helping performing and underachieving businesses stabilise and grow or, where this is not possible, to identify and implement fair and effective capital mitigation or recovery strategies. She has a proven track record in successfully leading large change initiatives across different bank divisions in both financial services institutions she has worked at.

Vaibhav Chadha, Managing Director, Head of Asia Distressed Debt & Special Situations, Cantor Fitzgerald  

Distressed loan sourcer/trader; India distressed debt specialist; Special sit investing; secondary loan trading  

Andrew Tan, Managing Director, Head of Asia Pacific Private Debt, Muzinich & Co 

Andrew is Managing Director and Head of Asia Pacific Private Debt at Muzinich & Co. With close to 20 years of experience in direct lending, syndicated loans, high yield and distressed credit, he is focused on expanding Muzinich & Co.’s global private debt presence in the Asia Pacific Markets.  

Prior to joining Muzinich, Andrew was Head of Global Loans and Special Situations Asia Pacific at HSBC. In this role, Andrew was responsible for building up the private debt business and was involved in sourcing, structuring, execution, risk taking and distribution of private debt. Andrew also managed HSBC’s Asia Pacific secondary loans and distressed debt investing businesses. 

Previously, Andrew worked at Nomura and Merrill Lynch in various investing and trading capacities involving private debt, syndicated loans and distressed debt. Andrew is a graduate of the University of Melbourne. He served as the chairperson of the Asia Pacific Loan Market Association Secondary Loan committee from December 2018 to June 2020. 

Olivia de Patoul, Senior Legal Counsel, Deminor Recovery Services 

After spending almost eight years in the M&A department of an international law firm in Brussels, Olivia moved to Hong Kong where, since 2018, she has been in charge of Deminor’s activity in the Asia-Pacific region. She assists existing clients in the whole funding process up to recovery, and looks at new opportunities in this expanding litigation-funding market, assessing and reviewing potential funding cases. Olivia is a member of several local associations and frequently organises seminars related to litigation funding in Asia.

Hamish Bull, Director, Restructuring, KordaMentha

“I work to achieve the optimal outcome for all parties.”

With over ten years of experience in the restructuring industry, Hamish has dealt with numerous complexed distressed situations globally.

Since relocating to Singapore from Australia in 2017, Hamish has split his time working in both an international bank and for KordaMentha, one of Asia-Pacific’s leading advisory and restructuring firms. In these roles Hamish has been exposed to managing restructuring issues from both a creditor and debtor perspective in a variety of industries throughout the region. 

Alexander Shaik, Partner, General Counsel, APAC Private Credit, ADM Capital 

Alexander Shaik is a Partner, General Counsel and observer to the Investment Advisory Committee. Alexander joined ADM Capital in 2005. Alexander has over 20 years of legal and commercial experience working on corporate and structured finance transactions. Alexander has been involved in innovative capital markets transactions in most Asian and European jurisdictions. Before joining ADM Capital, Alexander was employed in the Hong Kong office of the US law firm, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, and he has also worked with the Tokyo office of Allen & Overy. Alexander brings valuable structuring, regulatory and legal experience to the ADM Capital team. He received a BA (Hon.) in Law from The University of Melbourne and is admitted to practise in England and Australia.

Brinden Anandakumar, Senior Associate, Fullerton Law Chambers LLC 

Brinden is part of the firm’s thriving litigation and arbitration department. His practice spans a wide spectrum of corporate and commercial disputes across various industries. He acts primarily in matters before the Supreme Court of Singapore, and in both domestic and international arbitration proceedings. In this regard, Brinden has acted for clients in disputes arising from, amongst others, international trade, trade finance and commodities, shareholder disputes, breaches of directors’ fiduciary disputes, technology disputes and cross-border franchise disputes.