Lauren Tang

Partner at Stephenson Harwood Singapore Alliance (Singapore)

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Lauren is the managing partner at Virtus Law* and is an experienced commercial litigator with a focus on restructuring and insolvency.

Her highlights include advising and assisting one of the first foreign companies in successfully obtaining a scheme moratorium after the 2017 amendments to the Singapore Companies Act (Cap.50) (which resulted in the first reported judgment on the requirements of a scheme moratorium); representing a major secured lender on the collapse of a well-known Singapore oil trader (Hin Leong Trading); advising on one of the first pre-pack schemes approved under section 71 of Singapore’s Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act since it came into effect in July 2020; and acting for the agent bank of a syndicate of banks in the restructuring of the obligations of a business trust through the placing of its trustee manager under a scheme of arrangement, which was the first of its kind. She has also acted for a global freight forwarder in a complex Singapore High Court matter involving allegations of breach of duty of care; acted for a Singapore public listed company and its subsidiary in a complicated vessel-related dispute and successfully obtained urgent interim relief for a cryptocurrency user against a wallet services provider.

Lauren has appeared at all levels of the Singapore courts, including the Court of Appeal and also has been involved in SIAC/ HKIAC / LMAA arbitrations. Lauren is qualified in practise in Singapore and England & Wales.

She is a member of the Singapore Law Society and is a member of the Singapore Law Society's Insolvency Practice Committee 2022. She is also Vice-Chair of the International Women's Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation (Singapore).

She was recognised by Global Restructuring Review (GRR) in 'Names to know in Singapore' in June 2018 (click here for details) and further recognised by Asian Legal Business in their "40 under 40" 2021 list and as a finalist of the Women in Law Awards 2021.

*Virtus Law LLP (T13LL0339K) and Stephenson Harwood LLP (T13LL0821C) are registered as a Formal Law Alliance in Singapore under the name Stephenson Harwood (Singapore) Alliance. Both firms are registered in Singapore under the Limited Liability Partnership Act (Chapter 163A) with limited liability.