Imperial Law LLC is a Singapore-headquartered law firm based on Orchard Road, offering advocacy, solicitor, mediation, commissioner-for-oaths and notary public services. The firm was founded by managing director Choy Wing Kin Montague, who has practised since 2005 and set up the Singapore-headquartered firm in 2021.
Rather than presenting itself as a collection of individual partners or siloed practices, Imperial Law describes its approach as drawing on integrated legal, business and financial resources suited to each client, aiming to support both short-term needs and longer-term business goals.
The firm's work spans private wealth planning and structuring, onshore and offshore company structuring, mergers and acquisitions, fund raising, commercial transactional matters, and capital cases. Its team has also acted for clients in the air cargo and logistics sector, including advising on a strategic alliance between a Bahrain-based aircraft management company and a Singapore-based air cargo group.
Managing director Montague was admitted to the Bar of England and Wales in 1996 and called to the Singapore Bar in 1998, after graduating from the University of Liverpool. He has served on the Council of the Law Society of Singapore and its Executive Council. Fellow director Aw Nicholas was called to the Bar of England and Wales at Lincoln's Inn in 1992 and to the Singapore Bar in 1994, and is an accredited Psychologically-Informed Mediator with experience ranging from the State Courts to the Court of Appeal, as well as State Assigned Capital Cases.
The firm was recognised as Best Complex Business Law Firm 2023.
On the eleventh floor of the International Building on Orchard Road sits Imperial Law LLC, a Singapore-headquartered firm built around business law, private wealth and dispute resolution. It was founded by managing director Choy Wing Kin Montague, who set up the firm's Singapore headquarters in 2021 after practising since 2005.
Imperial Law describes itself deliberately as not being a firm of individual partners, offices, or siloed practices. Instead, the team draws on combined legal, business and financial resources, matching whatever mix of skills a client's situation actually needs. That's positioned as the point of difference: robust, integrated services working together rather than separate departments handing a client between them.
In practice, that means the firm's work stretches across private wealth planning and structuring, the setting up of companies both onshore and offshore, mergers and acquisitions, fund raising activities, and general commercial transactional work. It also takes on capital cases, acting under the Legal Assistance Scheme for State Assigned matters.
Montague, the firm's founding partner and managing director, was admitted to the Bar of England and Wales in 1996 and called to the Singapore Bar in 1998, after graduating from the University of Liverpool in 1994. Before founding Imperial Law, he built up experience as Head of Risk and Credit Management and Corporate Affairs manager at an established local firm, working not only in Singapore but across the Asia-Pacific region and Europe. He has also served on the Council of the Law Society of Singapore between 1999 and 2002, and on its Executive Council from 2001.
Director Aw Nicholas brings a different angle to the practice. Called to the Bar of England and Wales at Lincoln's Inn in 1992 and to the Singapore Bar in 1994, he has appeared at every level of Singapore's court hierarchy, from the State Courts up to the Court of Appeal, as well as before the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore and the Strata Titles Board. He is also an accredited Psychologically-Informed Mediator, applying psychology to help resolve conflict rather than simply litigating it. His practice areas run from private client matters through to corporate work with fintech and ad tech start-ups, offshore advisory, intellectual property planning, and company secretarial support.
The firm's client work isn't confined to Singapore. One case study describes Imperial Law's role in a strategic alliance between Bahrain's MAE Aircraft Managements and Singapore-based Asia Cargo Network, serving the Middle East and North Africa region — a sign of the firm's reach into cross-border corporate and aviation-adjacent work alongside its core private client and commercial practice.
That combination of private wealth expertise, corporate advisory and litigation experience saw Imperial Law LLC recognised as Best Complex Business Law Firm 2023.
Imperial Law LLC is based at 360 Orchard Road, #11-01 International Building, Singapore 238869, and can be reached by phone or fax for enquiries about its practice areas.