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The Best Lawyers in Singapore™ 2025 Edition

For 2025, Best Lawyers presents the most esteemed awards for lawyers and law firms in Singapore.

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April 17, 2024 11:00 AM

The Best Lawyers in Singapore 2025

Our Purely Peer Review® process includes nominations, peer voting and an extensive research process to verify data for each recognized lawyer. For 2025, the process culminated in 588 awarded lawyers at 142 law firms for The Best Lawyers in Singapore™.

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The Practice Areas Behind Each Award

Lawyers in Singapore received awards in 47 individual practice areas. Among these practices, the top 10 with the most recognized lawyers include Arbitration and Mediation, Litigation, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Shipping and Maritime Law, Construction Law, Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Banking and Finance, Capital Markets Law and Intellectual Property Law.

Through the Best Lawyers website, users can access the Find a Lawyer page, which allows them to find lawyers across Singapore in necessary practice areas. Users searched the Best Lawyers website the most in Singapore for these 10 practice areas: Information Technology Law, Arbitration and Mediation, Construction Law, Corporate Law, Criminal Defense, Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Intellectual Property Law, Litigation, Mergers and Acquisitions Law and Private Funds.

“Lawyer of the Year” Awards

The 16th edition of The Best Lawyers in Singapore also includes the respected “Lawyer of the Year” awards, which honor one lawyer per practice area in each metropolitan area. For 2025, the awards honor 27 “Lawyer of the Year” recipients across Singapore.

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