Mr Patrick Ang is the Deputy Managing Partner of one of the largest law firms in Singapore, Rajah & Tann LLP, and heads the firm’s Regional Practices. He has had 24 years of experience handling both contentious and noncontentious matter and one of his key areas of expertise is in corporate restructuring and insolvency, acting for financial institutions and companies in many major and publicised cases. These include Lehman Brothers, Nortel group of companies, China Aviation Oil Corporation, Asia Pulp and Paper, restructuring of C2C Ltd (a large underwater telecoms cable company majority owned by SingTel), the collapse of Lewis and Peat (one of the world’s largest rubber trading houses), the collapse of Sogo Department Store group of companies, Alliance Technology & Development Ltd, Measurex Group, PT Ometraco (listed Indonesian company), Admiralty Leisure (owners of Tang Dynasty Theme Park), Lernout & Hauspie Group (then the world’s largest speech software company), PineTree Town Club, Fort Canning Country Club, Crown Prince Hotel and Chew Eu Hock Holdings Ltd.
Mr Ang has been consistently recognised internationally, in Asia and in Singapore as a leading lawyer in his field in consecutive years by Asian Legal Business Legal Who’s Who Singapore, AsiaLaw Leading Lawyers, Asia Law & Practice, Asialaw Profiles, International Who’s Who of Insolvency and Restructuring Lawyers, Euromoney Guide To The World’s Leading Insolvency and Restructuring Lawyers, International Financial Law Review 1000, Asia Pacific Legal 500 and Chambers Global – The World’s Leading Lawyers. Currently, he is a member of the Singapore Ministry of Law Working Committee dealing with legislative reform in Singapore in relation to corporate insolvency and personal bankruptcy law. In addition, he is also a lecturer in Civil Procedure and Insolvency at the Postgraduate Practice Law Course and a regular speaker at conferences/seminars, and an Exco Member on the Employer Alliance. He is also an independent director of SMRT Corporation Ltd and The Esplanade Company, as well as Malacca Trust Limited, an Indonesia-based financial services group listed on Catalist of the Singapore Exchange and an independent director of Singapore Deposit Insurance Corporation Limited (a statutory company accountable to the Monetary Authority of Singapore).
Mr Ang holds a Bachelor of Law (2nd Upper Division Honours) from the National University of Singapore. Mr Ang was appointed to the Board of Directors on 24th February 2010 and was last re-elected on 26th April 2013.