Benjamin Foo

Benjamin Foo is a Senior Associate at A&O Shearman in Singapore, focusing on Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law. He advises on a broad spectrum of contentious and transactional restructuring and insolvency matters, ranging from consensual workouts and court-supervised restructurings (such as schemes of arrangement and judicial management) to liquidation, asset-recovery, and enforcement.

He regularly works with various stakeholders in insolvency proceedings, including corporate debtors and their board of directors, financial institutions, insolvency officeholders, and other stakeholder groups. He has been actively involved in several market-leading deals in Singapore involving the restructuring of SGX-listed bonds and pre-packaged schemes of arrangement, and was a contributing author to the judicial management chapter in a leading treatise on corporate law in Singapore.

His representative matters include advising a bilateral facility lender on its US$100 million exposure to the restructuring of China Aoyuan Group Limited, which involved parallel and inter-conditional schemes of arrangement filed in Hong Kong, the United States, and the British Virgin Islands for the restructuring of US$15 billion of offshore debt; advising Nam Cheong Limited on its US$1.35 billion debt restructuring; and advising a Japanese bank on a consensual workout of a defaulted US$50 million facility for a Vietnamese public infrastructure project.

Benjamin has served as a Council Member of the Law Society of Singapore since 2018 and presently serves on its Executive Committee, Insolvency Practice Committee and ADR Committee. He was placed on the Supreme Court of Singapore’s Young Amicus Curiae Scheme in 2022. He holds an LL.B. (First Class Honours) from the National University of Singapore (2015) and was admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor of Singapore in 2016. He speaks English.