Singularity Legal

Singularity Legal is an Asia and Africa focused international dispute resolution firm, established in August 2017.

The firm is a boutique offering, maintaining our own advocacy capabilities and fully connected to a global practice specialising in the resolution of high-end, complex disputes. Singularity has significant expertise in handling investigations, disputes across jurisdictions; unearthing frauds; and assisting clients in global enforcement and debt recovery.

Since its inception, the firm has handled over US$ 8 billion in cross-border disputes in various sectors, including energy and resources, construction and infrastructure, shipping and maritime, sports and entertainment, international trade and business, digital assets, and private equity and finance. They are also market leaders in litigation finance.

Singularity’s range of experience includes advising clients in international arbitrations under various rules like ICC, SIAC, LCIA, DIAC, ICDR, FCC, LMAA, JAMS, CAS, and UNCITRAL; international mediations under the rules of SIMC and SMC; in cross-border disputes before courts in India, Indonesia, Israel, Singapore, Turkey, Mauritius, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and United States of America; and in investment and tax treaty disputes.

These disputes have arisen out of business relations and projects in various parts of the world including the Bahamas, Bangladesh, British Virgin Islands, Canada, Cayman Islands, Egypt, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Nigeria, Oman, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, Russia, Turkey, UAE, UK and USA.

The firm is licensed to practise before the courts at Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), being the first Indian firm to be Part-I registered solicitors at DIFC. We also have rights to practise before the courts at Abu Dhabi Global Markets (ADGM). We have left our mark in the Middle East since our first year in this jurisdiction.

Our partner, Prateek Bagaria, being registered as a Part-II lawyer with full rights of audience before the DIFC Courts, heads the firm’s DIFC practice and believes that DIFC is the trade hub that has become a priority centre for Indian financial institutions, funds, family businesses, multinational corporations, and trading houses among others operating in the Asia-Africa corridor. Prateek has recently been admitted to the Dubai International Arbitration Centre’s panel of arbitrators.

The most significant development this year is that Singularity Legal has expanded to Singapore. Our Director, Rohit Bhattacharya is heading the Singapore office. On the firm’s entry into Singapore, our Partner Prateek Bagaria said, “"Setting up shop in Singapore opens up a myriad of opportunities for us to explore new horizons and further strengthen our presence in the region. We are excited about the prospects that this strategic move brings and are confident that it will enhance our ability to serve our clients with even greater efficiency and effectiveness.”

Singularity is experienced, dedicated and focused on winning disputes. We aim to reach the point of singularity for international disputes services. In furtherance of this one-stop shop model, Singularity provides end-to-end transnational dispute services that include allied services other than legal services, such as forensic investigation, forensic accounting, data mining and discovery, expert witnesses, valuation and claim quantification, delay analysis, and litigation funding.

• Construction
• Dispute resolution
• Private equity
• Banking and finance

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• Oil and gas
• Pharmaceuticals and life sciences
• Technology and telecommunications
• Infrastructure

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Prateek Bagaria
prateekbagaria@singularitylegal.com

Recent case highlights:

• Shareholder disputes in a thermal power plant construction project in Maharashtra (SIAC Rules, Indian law)
• Disputes against majority shareholders under a shareholders’ agreement of a company involved in the development of a technology park, for fraud and oppression (Ad-hoc, Indian law).
• Dispute under an EPC contract for conversion of a mobile offshore drilling unit into a mobile offshore production unit (Ad-hoc, Indian law).
• Dispute under a joint venture agreement of an upstream oil and gas company, against its ex-managing director for breach of fiduciary duties and non-compete agreement (SIAC Rules, Singapore law).
• Dispute under an EPC contract for construction of a biofuel plant in the Philippines (SIAC Rules, English law).
• Dispute under a consortium agreement for a rig conversion project (SIAC Rules, Singapore law).
• Disputes under an investment agreement for alleged misrepresentations and fraud against an Indian media company (SIAC Rules, Indian law).
• Disputes of a Kuwaiti private equity, under an investment agreement, to secure the exit in terms of the agreement (Ad-hoc, Indian law).
• Dispute under an EPC contract relating to the construction of a circulating fluidized bed combustion boiler in Istanbul (ICC Rules, Turkish law).
• Representing a Singaporean and an Indian company in an arbitration concerning breach of a consortium agreement for a rig conversion project against an Abu Dhabi shipyard (SIAC Rules, Singapore seated, Singapore law)
• Representing an Indian company in an arbitration concerning the termination of a contract for the construction of an ethanol and power plant in Philippines against an Australian employer and Filipino co-contractor (SIAC Rules, Singapore seated, English law)
• Representing two Singaporean companies in an arbitration against its ex-managing director of the oil and gas division and his companies for breach of fiduciary duties and non-compete agreement (SIAC Rules, Singapore seated, Singapore law)
• Advising an Indian company for its dispute against the Turkish employer for its dispute under an EPC contract relating to the construction of a circulating fluidized bed combustion boiler in Istanbul (ICC Rules, Turkey seated, Turkish law)
• Representing two Indian companies in an arbitration under a joint-venture agreement for construction of a thermal power plant against a Korean sovereign company (SIAC Rules, Singapore seated, Indian law)
• Advising a Turkish company in an arbitration concerning termination of a contract for renovation of highways in Kazakhstan against a Kazakh state-owned enterprise (SIAC Rules, Singapore seated, Kazakh law)
• Advising an Olympic boxer to defend doping charges a few months before the Tokyo Olympics
• Advising an American company, one of the largest trading houses in the world, in cross-border white collar and regulatory dispute relating to the Rotomac scam in India
• Advising an Indian company in an insurance litigation against an Indian underwriter under a hull and machinery insurance policy (UK High Court, Queen’s Bench Division)
• Representing an angel-investors in an investigation for fraud and breach of trust against a British Company and its promoter (London seated, English law)
• Representing a leading global litigation funder for its investment in a portfolio concerning construction projects in India (India seated, Indian law)
• Representing a Canadian national in his dispute against a leading cryptocurrency exchange (JAMS Rules, New York seated, New York law)
• Advising a UAE-based HNI in his dispute with a State agency regarding seizure of his cryptocurrency investments (US courts)
• Advising an Indian multi-national company in its dispute against its partner under several memoranda of understanding for the joint performance of visa processing services (DIAC Rules, DIFC-seated, DIFC law)
• Representing a Turkish company in its disputes against an Indian company under an agreement for the sale of agricultural raw materials (ICC Rules, Geneva seated, Indian law)
• Representing a former senior vice president of a DIFC-based private equity entity for wrongful termination and breach of a Private Equity Carried Interest Incentive Agreement (DIFC Courts)
• Advising an Indian exporter in its dispute with a leading Singaporean supplier under a purchase agreement for cotton fibres (Singapore High Court)
• Advising a Qatari HNI in proceedings relating to the enforcement of a provisional arbitral award (Cayman, Singapore and Swiss courts)
• Representing an Indian company in proceedings against a Liberian company relating to the enforcement of an MCIA award (DIFC Courts)
• Representing and advising a trading company in Dubai in their dispute under three contracts with entities based in the UK, USA and Senegal for contractual non-performance and, or non-payment of outstanding dues inter alia relating to the sale of wire rods in coils.
• Representing a Singapore-based pharmaceutical company in an arbitration under a shareholders' agreement against their Indian joint venture partners (India seated, Indian law)
• Representing 4 powerlifting athletes that were tested positive for doping at the 44th National Games, India (Delhi High Court)
• Conducting a public interest litigation challenging the constitutional validity of India’s National Anti- Doping Code (Delhi High Court)

Dubai
Level 41, Emirates Towers,
Sheikh Zayed Road,
Dubai, UAE
PO Box 31303
Tel: +971 4313 2043138

Singapore
Market Street,
#24-01 CapitaGreen,
Singapore 048946
Tel: +65 6679 6045

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