Member Profiles

Richard Nelson is a partner in King & Spalding’s Projects and Energy practice, based in the firm's Singapore office. Richard focuses on energy-related projects and transactions in Asia Pacific, including on a range of oil and gas and LNG matters. Richard is the global head of the firm’s LNG practice. Based in Singapore since 2008, Richard regularly advises international oil and gas companies, host governments, project developers and sponsors in jurisdictions across Southeast Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region. With extensive experience in the Asian energy field, Richard works with clients on energy-related transactions and projects, particularly in the upstream oil and gas, liquefied natural gas (LNG) and power sectors. He has counselled clients on large numbers of LNG import projects in the region and beyond. Richard is currently ranked as a Band 1 energy lawyer in Singapore and Asia-Pacific by the leading law directories, including Chambers and The Legal 500. He has also been listed by the IFLR 1000 2018 guide as a leading lawyer in Energy and Infrastructure, Project Development, Banking, Project Finance and M&A.

Soo Chye represents banks, listed companies, private companies and individuals, both local and overseas. He also works extensively with foreign counsel in multi-jurisdictional matters. Soo Chye advises extensively on acquisitions and disposals of real estate be it residential, commercial or industrial between individuals and corporates and acquisition of land from the government authorities and all legal aspects relating thereto. Because of his years in this practice, his involvement in transactions start from the beginning of each deal flow as he works with clients to structure the most appropriate form to undertake the transaction bearing in mind the clients’ objectives. Some of such structures involve the carving out estates and parceling them. He also acts for developers in this acquisition of land and disposal of the developed units. He also advises extensively on landlord and tenants issues and leases.

He obtained his LLB from University of Warwick and has been an Advocate & Solicitor in Singapore since 1997. Murali specializes in and has extensive experience in Shipping and Commercial Cases. He has acted and advised in a wide range of litigation, arbitration and advisory cases. He has appeared for his clients at all levels of the Singapore Courts and a number of his cases are reported. Murali is currently the Managing Partner of Joseph Tan Jude Benny LLP, a position he has held since 2013. He is a Senior Accredited Specialist in Maritime Law under the Singapore Academy of Law Accreditation Scheme. In addition, he is also a Member of the Inquiry Panel for Law Society of Singapore. More recently, he ranked among Singapore’s Top 100 Lawyers in Asia Business Law Journal 2019 and was named a Distinguished Practitioner in Asialaw Profiles 2020.

Patrick Tan, TEP is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Fortis Law Corporation, which is a medium-sized law firm in Singapore. Fortis Law also has an office in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Patrick is an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore. His areas of practice include Private Client, Trust, Elder law, Family Law, and Real Estate. He is a Notary Public, Commissioner for Oaths, a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators, an accredited Associate Mediator of Singapore Mediation Centre, as well as a registered Trust and Estate Practitioner with the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. He also currently serves as a Volunteer Mediator with the State Courts of Singapore. Patrick obtained his LL.B. (Hons) (2nd Upper Class) at the University of Nottingham, where he clinched several academic awards in Land Law, Company Law and Partnership law for emerging as the top candidate in these courses. In 2007, Patrick steered the firm into becoming the first law firm in Singapore to be accredited with the PrimeLaw Practice Management Excellence Standard awarded by the Law Society of Singapore. It is also the first law firm in Singapore to be awarded the Volunteer of the Year Award four times in a row from 2010 to 2013 by the Law Society of Singapore. In 2017, Patrick was awarded the Singapore Skillsfuture Study Award (Legal Sector) by the Singapore government and successfully completed the SAL-INSEAD Law Firm Leadership Programme conducted by INSEAD. Patrick is an approved CPD Trainer by the Council for Estate Agencies (which is the regulating authority for the real estate industry in Singapore) and the Legal Advisor to the Singapore Estate Agents Association and the Spa and Wellness Association Singapore.

MARKECHOVA JMJ LEGAL is a stable and reliable law office with extensive international experience. Based in the capital of the Slovak republic – Bratislava, our law office offers a wide range of legal services to our clients ranging from numerous subsidiaries of significant global companies operating in chemical, machine, automotive and consumer industries to small and middle-sized enterprises. The main areas of our legal services include legal aid with foundation, alternation or dissolution of business companies, re-structuralizing of companies, performing legal audits and elaborating due dilligence relating to acquisition of business shares in Slovak corporations along with legal assistance in acquisitions regarding merger, amalgamation and division of business companies. Our legal services also include the area of real estate law, employment law and medical law. For more information please visit our website.