Kenneth Lim

Kenneth’s main areas of practice are competition and antitrust, litigation, and restructuring and insolvency. He regularly advises clients on a broad spectrum of adversarial and non-adversarial competition law matters, ranging from international cartels to merger control. Kenneth has advised on the first merger reviewed by the Competition Commission of Singapore (CCS) to be successfully cleared on the basis of the failing firm defence. Chambers Asia-Pacific (2015) names Kenneth as a Recognised Practitioner in the field of Restructuring / Insolvency. He regularly advises lenders, borrowers and insolvency professionals in relation to liquidation, judicial management, receivership, schemes of arrangement, and complex cross-border restructurings. Kenneth has represented clients at all levels of trial and appellate litigation on a wide range of disputes. These include contractual claims, administrative law, banking, credit and security, employment, land law, negligence and defamation. Prior to joining Allen & Gledhill, Kenneth served as a Justices’ Law Clerk with the Supreme Court of Singapore, and as a Legal Counsel with the CCS. Kenneth graduated as one of the top law students from the National University of Singapore with an LLB (Hons) degree (First Class), where he was awarded a number of academic prizes and scholarships, and represented NUS at the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court competition. He was awarded the Hauser Global Scholarship to study at the New York University School of Law where he obtained an LLM. Kenneth was placed on the Supreme Court’s Young Amicus Curiae list in 2010, and has appeared as amicus curiae on novel matters concerning Article 11 constitutional protections, criminal procedure and sentencing under the Moneylenders Act. He is a member of the Ethics Committee and the Insolvency Practice Committee of the Law Society of Singapore. Kenneth has contributed to a number of leading publications, including Singapore Civil Procedure 2015.