Davinder Singh Chambers LLC

About Davinder Singh Chambers LLC

Davinder Singh Chambers LLC is a specialist dispute resolution and international arbitration boutique in Singapore, established in 2019 by Senior Counsel Davinder Singh following 37 years at Drew & Napier, where he had served as CEO for 17 years and then as Executive Chairman before departing in January 2019 to found a focused disputes practice. The firm operates from Guoco Tower in Singapore's Tanjong Pagar district, with Singh as Executive Chairman and Jaikanth Shankar as Chief Executive Officer. Its 18 lawyers are organised around two core practice groups — dispute resolution and international arbitration — while the LSRA lists 11 declared practice areas spanning civil and commercial litigation, criminal law, corporate and commercial law, administrative and constitutional law, and others.

Between March 2024 and May 2026, the firm appeared in 27 cases before Singapore courts. Civil procedure was its most frequent practice area by case volume (13 cases), followed by arbitration (9 cases), criminal procedure and sentencing (8 cases), trusts (6 cases), and landlord and tenant matters (5 cases), with further appearances in companies, insolvency law, equity, criminal law, damages, and conflict of laws. Matters were distributed across the High Court General Division (16 cases), the High Court Appellate Division (5 cases), the Singapore International Commercial Court (3 cases), the Court of Appeal (2 cases), and the SICC Court of Appeal (1 case) — a spread consistent with a focus on high-value and cross-border proceedings. Lawyers from the firm identified in these proceedings include Jaikanth Shankar, Ng Shu Wen, Davinder Singh, Tan Ruo Yu, Sumedha Madhusudhanan, and Shilpa Krishnan.

The firm's dispute resolution work covers commercial litigation and high-profile civil and criminal matters, with recent engagements described as including corruption proceedings, corporate fraud trials, and defamation suits involving senior government figures. Its court appearances include the criminal matter involving Hin Leong founder Lim Oon Kuin ([2026] SGHC 47), proceedings involving Shanmugam Kasiviswanathan ([2026] SGHC 69), the criminal proceedings involving former minister S. Iswaran ([2024] SGCA 35 and [2024] SGHC 185), and the GNC Holdings v ONI Global dispute heard at both the SICC and the SICC Court of Appeal. The firm's international arbitration practice is led by its founder, who has served as Chairman of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre. Its directors include David Fong, Hanspreet Singh Sachdev, Jaspreet Singh Sachdev, Tan Ruo Yu, Timothy Lin, and Vishi Sundar.

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