Lawyers

Peter Gabriel
Manoj Nandwani
Renganathan Shankar
Wang Yanwei Wendy
Kelvin David Tan
Eric Liew
Shannon Ong

Manoj Nandwani

Manoj was born in 1969 in Singapore. Manoj was called to the English Bar in 1996. He is a member of the Middle Temple Inns of Court, England. He is qualified both under English and Singapore law.
In 1998 he was called to the Singapore Bar.

He can write and speak English and Malay. He can speak Hindi and Tagalog and Mandarin.

Manoj together with Shankar founded the firm of 'Shankar, Nandwani and Partners' in 1999.
In a bid to provide greater synergy for clients and to leverage on each other's strengths, the firm of Shankar, Nandwani and Partners was dissolved on the 19th of May 2006 for the entire staff and lawyers to merge with Gabriel Law Corporation.

He is currently a member of the following:-

a) Criminal Legal Aid Scheme since 1999
b) Legal Assistance Scheme for Capital Offences (LASCO)
c) Insolvency Committee, Law Society
d) Social and Welfare Committee, Law Society
e) Small Firms Committee, Law Society
f) Grass Roots Leader for the Ulu Pandan CC, Holland Bukit Panjang Constituency. Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister of State for Community and Sports is the advisor to this CC. This is a voluntary appointment serving the residents in the constituency their various personal needs.

Manoj has handled various cases. He started with conveyancing and civil litigation. He has represented a government-linked company in the legal documentation in a property restructuring transaction. The assets involved almost SD$1.2 billion. The work was successfully handled and completed in 2004.

In conveyancing matters he has acted for most local banks such as DBS, OCBC, Standard Chartered, UOB, OUB and Singapura Finance. The services entailed advising the bank in the mortgage and security documentation.

He has represented clients in various matters such as drug possession, drug trafficking, traffic related offences, molest, rape (investigation stage), assault, forgery, tax fraud (evasion of Goods and Services Tax which is quasi criminal), immigration related offences (harbouring, overstaying, false declarations, human trafficking) and more recently in a high profile murder case. He has acted for the Philippine Embassy, Sri Lanka Embassy, China Embassy and Indian Embassy.

Manoj has also handled divorce cases involving custody disputes, maintenance disputes, division of matrimonial assets and jurisdictional issues involving foreign parties. Some of these decisions have been reported in the Singapore Law Reports.

Manoj has also handled immigration work such as assisting in applications for permanent residence, employment pass, dependent pass, entrepass, liaising with the Economic Development Board to obtain multiple entry passes for investing individuals and corporations.

He has also assisted/advised on matters involving information technology contracts, telecommunication contracts and employment contracts. Where specialist counsel is required, Manoj has worked with leading lawyers in their field to offer clients the best legal advice. He has undertaken trademark registration in Singapore and has co-ordinated trademark registration overseas such as in China.