DNA’s Infrastructure & Construction Practice is a truly regional practice. With market-leading practices, we offer our clients access to top-quality legal advice and representation across multiple jurisdictions through a single contact point.
Our lawyers are highly experienced in advising on all aspects of infrastructure and construction projects, from project finance, transactional due diligence, procurement, project advisory and regulatory & compliance, and to dispute resolution, insolvency and restructuring.
Examples of non-contentious matters include:
- Advising developers and contractors in large and complex public and private sector projects, in jurisdictions including Singapore (desalination plants, solar farms, integrated commercial projects, data centres, warehouses), Indonesia (pharmaceutical plants, rotary kiln electric furnace nickel refinery plant, business district data centre), Malaysia (light rail transit, mass rapid transit, hydropower plants, coal-fired power plants, thermal treatment facility plants, solar energy plants, pharmaceutical plants, general infrastructure projects, cement mill and facilities, chemical and biodiesel plant facilities, mixed developments), Taiwan (gas fired thermal power project, Vietnam (hydropower plants) and India (petrochemical plants, conventional and non-conventional power plants).
- Advising sponsors, lenders and contractors in the financing of projects in jurisdictions including Singapore (development, construction and operation of Integrated casino resorts, construction of desalination plant, mixed-use complex featuring attractions, retail offerings, a hotel and facilities for airport operations), Indonesia (design, construction and commissioning of gas-fired thermal power project), and Malaysia (hydroelectric energy generating facilities, 30MWac large scale solar photovoltaic energy generating facility, mixed-use integrated and transit-oriented developments, extension of the Maju Expressway from Putrajaya to Kuala Lumpur International Airport).
- Advising developers and contractors on project administration in large scale private sector and public sector projects in multiple jurisdictions including Singapore (MRT, airports, casinos, integrated commercial projects, residential projects), Indonesia and Malaysia (light rail transit, mass rapid transit, power plants (including hydro, air turbine, coal-fired), pharmaceutical plants, steel plants, general infrastructure projects, commercial and residential developments)
Coupled with a deep bench of local expertise that includes senior arbitrators, adjudicators, and mediators, our lawyers successfully appear in construction adjudication, international and domestic construction arbitrations, both ad hoc as well as under institutional rules such as ICC, UNCITRAL, SIAC, AIAC, BANI, PAM, and IEM. With rights of audience before the Singapore, Indonesian, Malaysian, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam courts, we can act in the entire life-cycle of any construction dispute, including enforcement and setting aside of awards.
Examples of contentious matters include:
- Acting for a main contractor in litigation, arbitration and adjudication proceedings against upstream and downstream parties, in relation to a casino project in Singapore with claimed quantum in the sum of several hundred million dollars.
- Acting for a Korean international contractor in a Singapore-seated UNCITRAL arbitration against an Indian state-owned company over claims amounting to US$210 million arising out of the construction of Asia’s largest petrochemical plant.
- Acting for the Government of India in challenging and setting aside an arbitration award in Malaysia, and in appeals to the apex court in Malaysia.
- Acting for an Indian state-owned company in litigation and arbitration proceedings against downstream parties in relation to an electrified double track railway project in Malaysia.
