Andre Seah has joined Osborne Clarke's Singapore office OC Queen Street (OCQS) as a Counsel. Andre is a finance and securities lawyer with a broad range of experience in the areas of corporate finance, private equity and venture lending, and digital finance.
Andre joins Osborne Clarke from Allen & Overy and has previously worked at Clifford Chance and Allen & Gledhill. Andre is also a tutor/facilitator of negotiation practice with the Singapore Institute of Legal Education and has also been a lecturer at the National University of Singapore.
Andre helps corporate clients in South East Asia navigate through the entire lifecycle of a debt – from the initial fund-raising stage to refinancing and restructuring. His practice involves traditional bank financing and capital markets issuances across a wide range of sectors including technology, real estate, energy and asset management.
Andre's experience will complement OCQS's significant fintech and crypto currency expertise. Andre is able to support OCQS's clients in the digital financial marketplace with Fintech P2P lending platforms, crypto hedge funds and blockchain funds. Andre also has securities law expertise and is able to advise on work with digital tokens and crypto derivative products.
OC Queen Street’s expertise encompasses FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Payments, IT, Data Protection, Financial Services, Regulatory, Intellectual Property, Competition, Telecoms, Media, Dispute Resolution, Investigations, Employment, Banking & Finance, and M&A.
OC Queen Street is particularly recognised for its expertise in Digital Businesses and FinTech. The team recently surpassed the global benchmark score for Lawyers/Team Quality in Singapore in The Legal 500's Client Service survey 2020.