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Raelene Pereira

Partner

Practice Area:

Restructuring & Insolvency

LLB (Hons), National University of Singapore
Advocate & Solicitor, Singapore

T +65 6232 0401
E raelene.pereira@rajahtann.com

Raelene is a partner with the Business Finance & Insolvency Practice Group. She joined Rajah & Tann LLP as a pupil in 2008 and has been with the firm since then.

Raelene’s areas of practice include commercial and corporate litigation, with an emphasis on banking and financing disputes, and personal and corporate insolvency. Raelene regularly represents a number of financial institutions, banks and accounting firms in Singapore and has advised on the restructuring of debts of distressed companies, including the review of restructuring agreements and security documentation.

She has also advised on the areas of private equity and trusts, including advising trust companies and fiduciary service providers on the establishment and administration of trusts, and the reporting obligations and legal duties of care of trust companies and other service providers. She has also advised individuals on succession planning and other private client issues.

Recently, Raelene has been identified as one of the world’s current rising stars in restructuring and insolvency, aged under 40, by Global Restructuring Review (GRR) 2022.

IFLR1000 2022 has identified Raelene as a “Rising Star”, and is recommended by Best Lawyers in Singapore 2023 in the area of Restructuring & Insolvency.

She has also been recognised by IFLR Asia Future Leaders 2021 as the next generation of influential lawyers working within corporate finance, receiving high praises from her peers and clients.

Her notable cases and transactions include:

  • Acting for and advising the judicial managers and liquidators of Hin Leong Trading (Pte) Ltd.
  • Represented H&C S Holdings Pte Ltd in a scheme of arrangement involving the first-ever recognition of Singapore’s enhanced scheme of arrangement moratorium regime in a landmark ruling by High Court of England and Wales.
  • Acted in applications for recognition of foreign insolvency proceedings and foreign representatives under common law and the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency.
  • Acted for a major secured creditor in the Hylfux / Tuaspring restructuring
  • Acted for a coalition of banking creditors in the judicial management of Agritrade International (Pte) Ltd.
  • Acted for secured creditors in the judicial management of oil trader Hontop Energy (Singapore) Pte Ltd.
  • Acted for World Class Global Limited (listed on the Catalist Board of the SGX-ST) in an application to Court for approval of a privatisation scheme of arrangement.
  • Acted for SB REIT Management Pte. Ltd. (as manager of Soilbuild Business Space REIT) in an application to Court for approval of a trust scheme of arrangement.
  • Acted for OUE Hospitality Trust in an application to Court for approval of a trust scheme of arrangement.
  • Acted for Viva Industrial Trust Management Pte. Ltd. (manager of Viva Industrial Real Estate Investment Trust) and Viva Industrial Business Trust (Trustee Manager of Viva Industrial Business Trust) in an application to Court for approval of a trust scheme of arrangement.
  • Advising the monitoring committee under a scheme of arrangement entered into between TT International Limited (listed on the SGX-ST) and its creditors.
  • Advising PSA Corporation in the bankruptcy of Hanjin Shipping Co Ltd.
  • Acted for a security trustee in a scheme of arrangement relating to the restructuring of US$325 million notes.
  • Acted for a Hong Kong lender in a scheme of arrangement relating to the restructuring of US$163 million term loan and revolving facilities granted to a company in Singapore
  • Part of a team that advised a company listed on the SGX-ST on a debt restructuring via a scheme of arrangement with cross-border considerations.
  • Part of a team that represented a Singapore company in a S$30 million SIAC domestic arbitration in relation to allegations of various breaches of warranties.
  • Acted for creditors with claims exceeding USD30 million in the re-structuring of the Glory Wealth Group (total debt of about US$900 million)
  • Rothstar Group Ltd v Leow Quek Shiong and other appeals [2022] SGCA 25 (transactions at an undervalue)
  • The Bank of East Asia Ltd v Lerida Pte Ltd and another and another matter [2017] SGHC 261 (mortgage enforcement)
  • BDG v BDH [2016] 5 SLR 977 (injunction to restrain winding up)
  • Neptune Capital Group Ltd and others v Sunmax Global Capital Fund 1 Pte Ltd and another [2016] 4 SLR 1177 (damages)
  • Re Beloff Michael Jacob QC [2014] 3 SLR 424
  • Tang Yong Kiat Rickie v SinesingaSdnBhd (transferee to part of the assets of United Merchant Finance Bhd) and others [2014] SGHCR 6 (cross-border bankruptcy)
  • Cheo Sharon Andriesz v Official Assignee of the estate of Andriesz Paul Matthew, a bankrupt [2013] 2 SLR 297 (bankruptcy; invalidation of matrimonial court order to dispose of assets)
  • The Royal Bank of Scotland NV (formerly known as ABN Amro Bank NV) and other v TT International Limited and another appeal [2012] 2 SLR 213 (schemes of arrangement)
  • The Royal Bank of Scotland NV (formerly known as ABN Amro Bank NV) and other v TT International Limited and another appeal [2012] 4 SLR 118 (schemes of arrangement; financial advisors)
  • Surface Stone Pte Ltd v Tay Seng Leon and another [2011] SGHC 223 (eDiscovery)
  • Khoo Eng Hock Patrick and another v Eastlink Shipbroking Pte Ltd and another [2009] SGHC 52 – succeeded on appeal in the Court of Appeal