Six Dentons partners were recognized in the Client Choice Awards 2020, in recognition of the world-class service, quality legal advice and outstanding value, which they deliver to their clients.

Gerald Singham, Deputy Managing Partner at Dentons Rodyk, received the award for Competition and Antitrust in Singapore. Gerald leads the firm’s Competition practice, which was recently named an “In-House Community: Firm of the Year, 2019” in Asian-mena Counsel’s 13th annual survey of the In-House Community. Gerald has extensive experience advising domestic and multinational clients from a broad range of industries on competition law matters. He also regularly conducts competition law compliance seminars and competition law audits, and sits on the competition law roundtable of the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore (“CCCS”).

Most recently, Gerald was involved in advising on the world’s largest e-commerce acquisition, acting as Singapore counsel to Flipkart Private Limited which involved competition law merger control clearance in India, in a US$16 billion acquisition leading to Walmart Inc. becoming Flipkart’s largest shareholder. This deal won has won multiple awards, including The Asia Legal Awards 2019 for TMT Deal of the Year, Asian Legal Business India Law Awards 2019 for M&A Deal of the Year (Premium), India Business Law Journal 2018 for M&A Deal of the Year and FinanceAsia Achievement Awards 2018 for Deal of the Year for Asia, Best M&A Deal in Asia and Best India Deal.

Other Dentons winners included:

• Tjibbe Douma, Intellectual Property – Patents, Netherlands
• Paul M Lalonde, Government Contracts, Ontario, Canada
• Juan Carlos Pró-Rísquez, Labor and Employment, Venezuela
• Ladislav Smejkal, Labor and Employment, Czech Republic
• Perry V Zizzi, Banking, Romania

The Client Choice Awards recognize lawyers around the world, who stand apart for the excellent client care they provide and the quality of their service. The criteria for this recognition focus on an ability to add real value to clients' business above and beyond the other players in the market.

Uniquely, these awards are based on nominations by corporate counsel. Clients are asked to rate individual lawyers and law firms on the following criteria: quality of legal advice, commercial awareness, industry knowledge, strategic thinking, billing transparency, tailored fee structures, value for money, responsiveness, effective communication, clarity of documentation, sharing of expertise, appropriate staffing, project management, use of technology, loyalty and ethics.

About Dentons Rodyk

Dentons Rodyk is one of Singapore's Big Five law firms, with a team of around 200 lawyers offering clients a full suite of legal services necessary to do business locally and globally. With over 160 years of establishment, consistently ranked highly in leading publications, we pride ourselves on providing the highest quality advice to our clients while maintaining strong working relationships with key public sector agencies and leading organisations in the private sector. Our combination with global law firm Dentons, makes us part of the world’s largest law firm with 20,000 professionals in over 200 locations in more than 80 countries.

Designed to be different, Dentons Rodyk can help you grow, protect, operate and finance your business. Our polycentric and purpose-driven approach, together with our commitment to inclusion, diversity, equity and ESG, ensures we challenge the status quo to stay focused on what matters most to you.

The first global pan-ASEAN law firm, Dentons ASEAN has an established history in Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Vietnam and Singapore and will continue to grow our presence through combinations with exceptional local firms across the ASEAN region and help clients navigate change wherever they are located.

In the new dynamic decade, clients continue to be confronted with complex scenarios and want to work with a purpose-driven law firm that has the experience and confidence to help them thrive at wherever they are located. Through our combinations with firms that are leaders in their respective communities and local markets, along with the partner firms in Dentons’ Nextlaw Referral Network, Dentons is ideally positioned to support our clients everywhere in ASEAN and around the globe.