UK-Based Law Firm Expands Into Singapore

Editorial Staff

28 October 2019

English law firm Expatriate Law has formed a Singapore branch office called Expatriate Law Pte. Ltd The office is a foreign law practice approved by the Ministry of Law in Singapore and is regulated by the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority in England.

The new office will provide English divorce and family law advice to British expats and families with links to England who are living in Singapore and Southeast Asia.

Based at Singapore's Land Tower in Raffles Place, the office will be developed by Sonny Patel who is a partner of the firm. Patel, an English solicitor with 13 years of post-qualification experience in English family law, was trained and practised exclusively in a central London law firm prior to joining Expatriate Law in 2014 where he led their Dubai office.

“The effective conduct of a cross-border divorce requires technical knowledge combined with practical experience of a number of niche areas of law. By establishing a presence in Singapore and working closely with local lawyers across the region, our firm will be ideally placed to meet the needs of British expats at what can be a highly charged and stressful period of their lives,” Patel said.