Practice Areas

In today's rapidly changing and competitive marketplace, RESPONDEK & FAN Pte Ltd offers clients solutions that reflect creativity and initiative. We work closely with our clients to develop a thorough understanding of the client's business imperatives to solve their business and legal challenges. Our attorneys have extensive experience in international business transactions and are familiar with issues that such transactions commonly involve.

We strive to provide the client with the highest quality legal services as cost effectively as possible. As a small specialized firm, we offer all of the sophisticated services of a larger firm, but with a higher degree of individual accountability, dedication and attention.

Due to their international legal education and practice background in different jurisdictions in Asia, Europe and the U.S.A., the partners of the firm are experienced in Common Law as well as  Civil  Law.  The firm’s  main expertise and focus is on international  commercial legal and business issues: -    

CORPORATE PRACTICE: Structuring International Business Transactions

RESPONDEK & FAN Pte Ltd has a full range of expertise in all aspects of International Corporate Law, including mergers and  acquisitions,  general  corporate counselling,  across the  spectrum  of  business  and  legal  issues  that  challenge  an  increasingly complex and regulated business environment, including:

• Foreign investment in the Asia Pacific Region
• Development of industrial projects, including Joint Ventures
• Negotiating investment projects with corporate entities, government authorities and individual investors
• Technology transfer and Intellectual Property Licensing-in and Licensing-out
• Advising on legal aspects of setting up production facilities
• Legal advice on structuring and implementing business development projects
• Strategic planning back-up

INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL CONTRACTS: Drafting and Negotiating International Commercial Agreements

In the complex area of contracts, the right legal advisor is not the one who merely helps you to structure and negotiate agreements, term sheets, bids, comply with rules and regulations and prevent disputes. It is the one who can pair vast experience in contract law with an in-depth,  first  hand  knowledge  of the  way  business  works.  Our  contracts  are  not  just instruments of risk prevention, but our contracts focus on helping your business maintain its current and long-term competitive position. We have negotiated, drafted and implemented the following contracts in Asia, Europe and other geographic locations:

Asset Purchase, Co-marketing,  Confidentiality,  Co-promotion,  Consulting, Cooperation,  Copyright,  Distribution,  Employment,  Joint Venture,  Know-How,  Lease,  Licensing, Management,  Manufacturing,  Option, Pool,  Registration, Release,  Secrecy, Service, Severance,  Settlement,  Shareholder,  Share Purchase,  Sponsoring, Teaming, Technology Transfer and many other Agreements

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

We continuously advise and assist various multinational companies in identifying and short-listing suitable acquisition candidates in various Asian countries. This includes assistance in the preparation of the feasibility studies and due diligence exercise, purchase negotiations and the drafting of the purchase and related contractual documents in countries like China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand etc...

FOREIGN INVESTMENT: Coping with Government regulations

We are active on the full range of legal questions affecting investment in Asia and Europe. RESPONDEK & FAN Pte Ltd regularly participates in the initial planning process and subsequent implementation of various investment projects, taking advantage of governmental preferential investment policies and regulations. This also regularly includes compliance monitoring. We offer expertise for every phase of a foreign investment’s project growth cycle.

RESOLVING BUSINESS DISPUTES / INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION

While we work hard for our clients so that disputes never come up, there are always situations where such disputes cannot be avoided. We have assisted major international clients before the ICC, SIAC and other international arbitration institutions and acted as lead counsel. The firm’s Managing Director, Dr Andreas Respondek, is regularly appointed as arbitrator by international arbitration institutions like the ICC and the SIAC (http://www.siac.org.sg/regpanel-respondek.htm; http://www.legal500.com/as500/frames/si_fr.htm).


HEALTH CARE

Few industry segments are as regulated or monitored as Health Care: Government regulators, licensing authorities, insurance companies etc. each have their own set of rules, protocols and practices which reach virtually every aspect of the Health Care Industry. Declining reimbursement levels, consolidation among providers, managed care, more stringent regulatory requirements etc. are just a few of the key factors that impact the Health Care industry and the challenges we face today. Hence, Health Care management in today’s competitive environment has become more complex than ever before.

In this  respect  our  firm can offer our  clients  some  unique  features:  To the best of our knowledge, RESPONDEK & FAN Pte Ltd is the only law firm in the Asia Pacific Rim that has a Managing Director  (Dr Andreas Respondek)  that has not only  extensive health care experience on the legal side,  but that has actually  led health  care  companies  as  General Manager in various Asian countries (Greater China, Thailand, Asia-Pacific Region).

RESPONDEK  &  FAN’s  Pte Ltd Managing  Director has started his career in Health  Care  (Boehringer Mannheim). Consequently,  we have made a major  commitment to serving  the  health care industry. We represent a diverse group of participants in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and health care industry, a variety of health care providers, insurers, trade and related organizations. We are proud to have achieved a number of “firsts” for our health care clients e.g.,

• we participated in the first acquisition of a Japanese Health Care company by a leading European health care company,
  
• assisted in setting up the first Diabetes Center in China (Beijing) together with the PLA, 
  
• received first in-principle approval to set up an OHQ for a pharmaceutical company in Singapore from the EDB,
  
• carried out the first successful application for a healthcare company to set up a 100% wholly owned Company with Board of Investment privileges in Bangkok etc.