Speaker

Nathanael’s practice encompasses a broad range of commodities, trade finance, sanctions, and shipping matters, both contentious and non-contentious. He acts for banks, traders, and terminals on commodities and shipping disputes, trade finance disputes and documentation, and sanctions. He has assisted Judicial Managers in commodity fraud investigations, and has been appointed to file representations to the UN Panel of Experts on North Korea, OFAC, and local authorities. Nathanael has appeared at all levels of the Singapore courts, both as counsel and led by Senior Counsel, and in arbitrations in Singapore, London, and Hong Kong. From 2017–2020, he was Head of Legal & Sanctions Compliance at a shipping and oil trading group, managing the insurance portfolio of more than 160 vessels, and was a member of the Singapore War Risks Mutual Class Committee from 2019 – 2020. Nathanael was named as one of Singapore’s 70 most influential lawyers aged 40 and under by the Singapore Business Review in 2016.