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Ajinderpal Singh is a partner in Rodyk & Davidson LLP's Litigation & Arbitration Practice Group.

Ajinder's practice is focused on partnership and shareholder disputes, insolvency and banking litigation. He has acted for both minority and majority shareholders, representing a diverse range of clients: a multinational advertising group, locally listed public companies, foreign joint venture partners and a home grown family businesses selling medicated oil. He has been involved in partnership disputes between local law firms and international firms. Notably, he acted in the action brought by the minority shareholders of Borden Co Pte Ltd which went before the Court of Appeal.

Ajinder has advised directors and CEOs on the laws pertaining to directors' duties and corporate governance, and regularly gives talks on the subject. Presently, he is one of counsel representing two directors in the dispute concerning Metalform Asia Pte Ltd. He regularly advises leading insurance companies on issues arising in relation to their D&O policies (directors and officers' liability insurance policies).

As a banking and insolvency practitioner, Ajinder has presented judicial management petitions for several creditors. He acted for the judicial managers of Singapore Leasing Pte Ltd, Tang Dynasty and Showpla Asia Ltd. He has been involved in preparing schemes of arrangements between companies and their creditors and reconstruction and amalgamation schemes for solvent groups of companies, often under time-sensitive and pressing conditions. He has represented liquidators and assisted them in investigations into the affairs of the company, notably in cases involving fraud and suspected insolvent and fraudulent trading. He has acted for receivers. His banking experience includes complicated disputes concerning syndicated loans in excess of tens of millions of dollars.

Ajinder has a broad and diverse range of arbitration experience. He has been involved in ICC, SIAC and other "ad hoc" arbitrations. He is well versed with issues related to the enforcement of arbitral awards, including applications for the setting aside of such awards. He has represented an investment fund vehicle against a local listed company in a dispute over their investment in a condominium development project. He acted for a major Japanese institution against its Indonesian joint venture partner. He has been involved in proceedings concerning the setting aside of a substantial arbitral award in favour of an American company against a state owned Indonesian oil and gas company.

His general practice encompasses employment, tenancy and competition law. He is developing his insurance practice, in particular professional indemnity insurance.