Biography: Insolvency & Restructuring

Manoj Pillay Sandrasegara is the joint head of the restructuring and insolvency practice and a partner in the banking and financial disputes practice. He has extensive experience in acting for financial institutions and companies on a broad range of restructuring and insolvency mandates. He has, in addition, represented financial institutions and judicial managers, scheme managers, receivers and liquidators in insolvency-related court proceedings.

Manoj was involved in a number of high-profile cross-border debt restructurings including Asia Pulp and Paper's US$16 billion debt restructuring, China Aviation Oil's collapse following derivatives trading losses of US$550 million and Thakral's US$718 million restructuring, as well as SK Global's US$100 million debt restructuring.

His other significant matters include his involvement in the investigation of government-linked marine engineering leader SembCorp Marine on its US$303 million unauthorised foreign exchange transactions which could have potential serious insolvency implications. He was also appointed lead counsel by a regional government for a highly confidential matter involving the alleged misuse of funds by the management of a government-linked company, amounting to US$290 million, where he assisted with the unwinding of several large infrastructure and telecommunications agreements with multi-national companies in Europe. He also advised Korea Line Corporation on its US$ 600 million debt restructuring exercise before the Singapore courts.

Manoj is on the board of directors of the Insolvency Professionals' Association of Singapore and is a member of the Insolvency Law Reform Committee of Singapore.