About Glenn G Cheng Law Chambers
Glenn G. Cheng Law Chambers (“GGCLaw“) entered service on Thursday 15 September 2022 SGT as a set of barrister’s chambers (in the form of a sole proprietorship with one non-legal consultant). Expansion plans will follow in due course.
GGCLaw’s ideology is to provide an uncluttered, direct, client-facing “one-stop” suite of legal services comprising:
- Major energy/infrastructure/engineering and construction projects related advisory services comprising a “tender to completion/commissioning” scope for bid assessment support, contractual drafting and negotiation, delivery controls and performance risks, claims and defences, defaults and unforeseen disruptions, termination strategy and contractually regulated dispute resolution.
- Global cross-border and domestic corporate transactions including investment funding, mergers, and acquisitions.
- (International arbitration) Counsel roles; and,
- (Independent) Arbitrator and comparable tribunal roles.
GGCLaw will explore different cost models and adopt innovations to promote efficiency, including “teaming arrangements” with client’s resources and external Singaporean, and other locally qualified counsel where it is agreed that such collaborations would be beneficial to the case, or project in question. Where necessary, GGCLaw will keep the discretion to seek your approval to “carve-out” the instructing/supporting solicitors’ role and to instruct external firms of solicitors of our choice and onward recommendation to you. At GGCLaw, the selection process will in each instance be a closely coordinated and consulted process aligned with each client’s needs and concerns being specifically addressed, assessed, and strictly adhered to.
As a value-added innovation GGCLaw is staffed with an in-house (Non-Legal) Business and Financial Consultant, Mr Kewee Kho, who is an institutional investment, and financial services expert. Mr Kho will be available to aid and support GGCLaw, or to consult and collaborate with our clients’ commercial teams in investigating and sounding commercial deal feasibilities, as well as to help GGCLaw in terms of developing heads of claim and particulars of quanta.
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GGCLaw is a bespoke, highly exclusive, and cost-competitive set. It achieves this by insisting on quality over quantity; and to be conservatively selective about clients and cases.
Importantly, it is at heart a richly experienced but still yet “anti-traditional” legal industry pioneer.
Practice Areas
LEGAL EXPERTISE
- Contract structuring, negotiations, drafting, and associated advisory work;
- Project feasibility and delivery risk analyses;
- Advice on the evidence, as well as on the merits of claims (and defences to claims);
- Advice on contractual controls and events of non-performance;
- Advice and support on the preparation of claims and assocated submissions;
- Advice and support on intra-contractual and (external or independent) alternative dispute resolution;
- Statutory adjudication work;
- Dispute (Adjudication and Review) Board work;
- Independent (Referee or) Determination work ;
- (International) Arbitration Counsel work;
- Domestic Litigation Counsel work;
- Independent (International) Arbitrator work; and,
- Emergency (International) Arbitrator work.
INDUSTRY SECTOR EXPERIENCE
- Commercial Contracting;
- PPP, and Concession-based DBOO(T) Projects;
- Traditional, Turnkey (Design and Build), and EPC/EPC(C/IC) Projects;
- Design and Professional Services (and Consultancy) Agreements;
- Energy (Oil & Gas) Exploration, Production (Offshore), Joint Development, and Production Sharing Projects;
- Subsea and Engineering Support Services;
- Energy (Renewable) Concession and Production Sharing Projects;
- Power Supply and Purchase Arrangements (and Off-take Agreements);
- Operation and Maintenance Agreements;
- Plant (Onshore – Process Engineering) Design and Build Projects;
- Civil and Marine Engineering Projects;
- (Seabed) Dredging, Land Reclamation and Environmental Management;
- (Seabed) Submarine Cable Systems;
- Built-Environment (Foreshore Defence and Fortification);
- Built-Environment (Onshore Infrastructure and Utilities);
- Built-Environment (Onshore Ports and Transporation);
- Built-Environment (Onshore Buildings and Structures);
- Built-Environment (Onshore Townships and Industrial Zones); and,
- General Project Performance Controls and Supply Chain Advisory.
Why Glenn G Cheng Law Chambers
GGCLaw is a bespoke, highly exclusive, and cost-competitive set. It achieves this by insisting on quality over quantity; and to be conservatively selective about clients and cases.
Importantly, it is at heart a richly experienced but still yet “anti-traditional” legal industry pioneer.
Our Team
Phone: (65) 8608-7662
Email: ggc@ggclaw.sg
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Glenn George Cheng has more than 25 years in private legal practice, during which he has served as a partner in Singapore, UK and US based global law firms. Today, Glenn is the founding owner and managing partner of an independent set of chambers in which he maintains an exclusively client-customised, specialist practice as arbitrator, international arbitration counsel and project advisor.
Glenn has a singular industry reputation in terms of complex projects including large-scale blue-water heavy civil and marine engineering, and ports construction projects; having been involved since 2015 in advising in seamless sequence, the respective JV head contractors on each of Phase One and Phase Two stages (comprising “Finger 2” and “Finger 3”) EPC (Turnkey) packages of the Tuas Terminal “Mega-Port” Project – which, at 65mil TEUs handling capacity p.a will stand as the world’s largest port infrastructure when all (four) Finger piers are completed.
In other infrastructure projects, he has acted on PPP/DBOO(T) projects across Singapore and the SEA-Asia-Pacific region. In traditional procurement platforms he has advised the Jurong Island Westward Expansion (JIWE) project in Singapore, as well as BOT/DBOO(T), ports construction projects in Abu Dhabi, Indonesia, India, and Saudi Arabia.
In the fields of energy projects and specifically in terms of offshore exploration and production, Glenn has acted in oil and gas MODU rig new-buildings, RLEC works, asset sale and purchases; as well as in shipyard-based EPC(I)(C) asset fabrication contracts. He is also well-known for his work on subsea drilling support engineering services contracts, as well as in non-oil-and-gas submarine cable EPC projects.
During the COVID-19 pandemic “lockdown” periods internationally, Glenn advised numerous key clients and projects across Italy, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and the UAE.
At this stage of his career, Glenn has been involved in leading and advocating cases, as well as (in) advising multi-disciplinary projects worldwide which cumulatively exceed US$20bn in aggregated value.
Phone: (65) 9383-0167
Email: kewee@ggclaw.sg
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Kewee Kho is focused on investments, corporate and financial advisory to institutional and private clients. His work experience over the last 25 years accumulated from the US and Asia-Pacific is multi-roled which include investment banking, private equity, venture capital, investments, corporate and business development, corporate finance, entrepreneur, and business management, covering a broad spectrum of industries.
Kewee is also independent director of SGX-listed MS Holdings Limited and Zhongmin Baihui Retail Group Ltd. He was previously board member of Lee Metal Group Limited and Courts Asia Limited.
Kewee is a Fellow of Singapore Institute of Arbitrators and member of Singapore Institute of Directors. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science from Indiana University, and Graduate Certificate in International Arbitration from National University of Singapore, Law.
