ALB Asia Debt & Debt Restructuring Forum 2021

Tham Wei Chern, Director, Fullerton Law Chambers LLC  

Wei Chern’s practice covers commercial and corporate disputes, including shareholders' disputes and breaches of directors' duties, and securities-related and banking litigation. Wei Chern also handles construction disputes, insolvency matters, employment disputes, and defamation claims.

Wei Chern frequently represents clients in the High Court of Singapore and the Court of Appeal. He also acts for clients in international arbitrations.

David Chew, Partner and Founder, DHC Capital  

David has over 22 years of experience in restructuring, turnaround and special situations having worked as an advisor with Ernst & Young and Arthur Andersen, an investment banker with Morgan Stanley, in senior management as a CRO, CFO, and interim CFO and Board member to distressed companies.

David has worked with and advised private and publicly listed corporates, bank creditors, bond holders, alternative capital providers, and distressed investors across the full range of the restructuring transaction cycle, including crisis stabilisation, business and strategic reviews, strategic options analysis including planning and implementing in and out of Court solutions, operational restructuring and turnaround, debt restructuring and schemes of arrangement, liquidity management initiatives, distressed M&A, rescue financing, refinancing and recapitalisations. 

Jun Palanca, Head of Distribution, Asia Pacific, Loan Capital Markets Asia, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation 

Jun is a member of the Loan Capital Markets Department of Sumitomo Mitsui  Banking  Corporation. He is responsible for the distribution in the Asia Pacific. Jun brings over 25 years of loan syndication, export and agency finance, project finance, asset-based finance, leveraged finance, M&A, and capital markets experience in the Asia Pacific. Before joining SMBC, Jun was at Merrill Lynch (Asia) Ltd in Singapore and Hong Kong where he was responsible for the loan syndication business for Asia and was part of the leverage finance team in Asia working on leverage and high yield transactions. Prior to Merrill Lynch, Jun spent more than 10 years with ING Bank N.V. in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Manila in the syndication, corporate finance, and PF teams and had been involved in advisory, arranging, and syndicating roles in the Asia Pacific. Prior to that, he was with the corporate finance and risk management teams of Citibank N.A. where he was involved in project finance and structured trade finance transactions.