Seladore confirms Singapore office launch following licence approval

1 September 2025

Seladore Legal has confirmed the official opening of its Singapore office, effective Monday 1 September, with partner Liang-Ying Tan leading the practice.

Liang-Ying will continue to play a central role in several of the firm’s significant mandates, including an LCIA trial in October and an investment treaty claim involving a fintech business in South Asia.

She graduated top of her NUS Law School cohort with First Class Honours, served as a Justices’ Law Clerk and Assistant Registrar of the High Court, taught Public Law at NUS, and later completed an LLM at Harvard Law School. Her international experience includes a clerkship at the International Court of Justice and over a decade of arbitration and litigation practice in New York, with Gibson Dunn and Herbert Smith Freehills.

Liang-Ying commented:
“I am delighted to be home after 15 years in the US and The Hague. It has already been wonderful reconnecting with mentors and friends, as well as making new ones, and I am grateful for the community’s overwhelming welcome and support. I look forward to representing more clients in commercial and treaty arbitrations, SICC matters, and the firm’s bread and butter of complex multi-jurisdictional disputes.”

Seladore’s Singapore office launch follows the opening of its Milan office last year, led by Laurence Shore.

Senior Partner Simon Bushell attended Singapore Convention Week ahead of the launch. He commented:
“Anyone who thinks that the momentum of international arbitration is beginning to move eastwards is probably out of touch – it’s already happened. Singapore is now a very serious hub for regional work and Singapore law is a more than credible choice of law for many commercial parties who seek sophistication, predictability and neutrality, and who for a variety of reasons do not want to choose English law.”

Simon added:
“We could not be better positioned in having a foot in both London and Singapore at this fascinating and pivotal moment in the global economy.”