Dentons Rodyk is delighted to announce that our Partners Debby Lim, Sook Zhen Ng and Maw Jiun Foo have been recognised as Singapore's Most Influential Lawyers Under 40 in 2021 by the Singapore Business Review.

Together, they represent three out of eighteen lawyers who have been nominated as the most promising and influential in Singapore Business Review's eighth year of legal luminaries aged 40 and under list. These lawyers shine in their respective fields of law and have advised clients on diverse matters.

Debby Lim

A partner in our Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy practice, Debby has a broad commercial practice with overlapping strengths in banking and finance disputes, insolvency and restructuring, domestic and international arbitrations. She was also named as one of “40 of the world’s leading restructuring specialists, aged 40 and under,” by the Global Restructuring Review in 2016 and has been lauded as a leading lawyer in many publications including Chambers Asia-Pacific, The Legal 500 and Who’s Who Legal for her technical ability and commercial nous.

Sook Zhen Ng

At 33, Sook Zhen is one of the youngest lawyers to be ranked in this list. As a partner in Dentons Rodyk's Regional practice, Sook Zhen has assisted Singaporean and Japanese clients in a wide variety of matters, including disputes and transactions involving banking and finance, employment and regulatory compliance as well as general commercial and corporate matters. Fluent in English, Chinese and Japanese, she heads the firm's Japan desk and plays a leading role in many cross-border and multi-jurisdictional matters.

Maw Jiun Foo

Maw Jiun is a partner in our Intellectual Property & Technology practice. He also Co-Heads the Patents, Data Privacy & Protection and Cybersecurity practices. His areas of practice encompass worldwide registration of intellectual property, infringement and counterfeiting actions, commercial litigation involving intellectual property, commercialisation of intellectual property rights (such as licensing and assignment agreements) and compliance with data protection and cybersecurity laws.

View the full list of Singapore's Most Influential Lawyers Under 40 in 2021 by Singapore Business Review here.

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.