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 Singapore’s global law firm and part of the world’s largest, 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 and consistently ranked highly in leading publications, Dentons Rodyk delivers top-tier legal advice while maintaining strong working relationships with key public sector agencies and prominent private sector organisations.

Its combination with global law firm Dentons makes it part of the world’s largest law firm, with more than 12,500 professionals across over 160 locations in more than 80 countries. Dentons Rodyk is also part of Dentons ASEAN, the first global pan-ASEAN law firm, with a longstanding presence in Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam.