Dato Paul Supramaniam Chairman, Law Asia International Lawyer
Dato Paul Supramaniam is the Founder of Law Asia, an international law firm headquartered in Singapore, with associated offices in Bangalore, Bangkok, Brunei, Chennai, Colombo, Dhaka, Jakarta, London, Madrid, Mumbai, New Delhi, Phnom Penh, Vientiane and Yangon, all countries where he has advised extensively in. Prior to that, he has had an illustrious career of 30 plus years with major international firms as the first Singaporean to become a Partner at a major international law firm in London, then as Asian Managing Partner of a leading British law firm and also as Senior English Partner Asia at Latham & Watkins (one of the world’s top law firms) until 2007.
He has led some of the largest cross border mergers and acquisitions, private equity and privatization transactions in the region including the funding of the Colony Capital acquisition of Raffles Holdings Limited (M&A Deal of the Year 2005 by Asian Legal Business) and the KKR and Silver Lake Partners acquisition of Agilent Technologies for US$2.66b. His Singapore legal awards include Singapore M&A Deal Maker of the Year 2015 by Acquisition International Magazine, M&A Lawyer of the Year 2015 & 2017 by Finance Monthly Global Magazine and Most Outstanding M&A Lawyer 2015 by Corporate LiveWire. He has also been M&A Lawyer of the Year in Myanmar for a number of years.
He is a Singapore nominated member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport, Lausanne and is also a member of the Professional Affairs Committee of the Singapore Academy of Law.
He sits as an independent director on the regional Board of CEPSA (a Spanish MNC) and Plexus Group (UK-listed) and is a senior legal advisor to Konecranes (OMX-listed), Fortum (OMX-listed) and Inmobi (Indian mobile advertiser).
Paul was the Wright Rogers Law Scholar of Cambridge University and is currently the President of the Singapore Oxford and Cambridge Society, a past President of the Singapore UK Association and a former Vice-President of the British Chamber of Commerce in Singapore. He is also a member of the India Business Roundtable and a former member of the Singapore British Business Council.
