Global law firm Goodwin has opened a new office in Singapore’s central business district, which will serve clients raising, deploying, and lending capital in the region and around the world. Singapore is Goodwin’s second location in Asia and the 15th office globally.
Private investment funds partner Greg Barclay chairs the new office, which initially includes private equity partner Abhishek Krishnan, counsel Ananth Lakshman and a team of associates. Goodwin’s Hong Kong-based lawyers also support the new office and the firm’s clients in Singapore and the wider region. Private investment funds partner Elyn Xing will spend significant time in Singapore over the coming months. In 2021 and through the first half of 2022, Goodwin was named the top law firm by deal count for global mergers and acquisitions by Refinitiv.
The team brings with it decades of cross-border transaction experience. Barclay’s practice focuses on the formation of and investment into private equity, venture capital, credit, infrastructure, real estate and hybrid funds, as well as other capital-structuring matters across the alternative asset classes, including joint ventures, co-investments, segregated accounts, investment management mandates and complex secondaries/restructuring transactions.
Krishnan and Lakshman have a broad-based transactional practice with an emphasis on advising companies, sponsors and promoters in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, buyouts, early and late stage venture capital and growth equity investments, PIPEs, joint ventures and other corporate transactions.
