Peter Doraisamy

Peter Doraisamy is the Founder and Managing Partner of PDLegal LLC, an award winning mid-sized full-service law firm based in Singapore. The Firm also maintains an office in Bangkok, Thailand.

With 25 years of practice experience, Peter is widely recognised as a leading advocate. He regularly acts as counsel in complex commercial litigation matters and international arbitration. He is frequently instructed on contentious matters in the areas of Maritime and Shipping, International Trade, Commodities, Restructuring and Insolvency, Insurance, Shareholders’ Dispute, Employment, Corporate Governance, and Fraud and Asset recovery.

Peter serves a diverse clientele across a wide array of industries. His clients include high net worth individuals, corporations, ranging from multi-national to publicly listed entities as well as international and local law firms who instruct him as counsel.

For non-contentious matters, clients look to Peter as a trusted business advisor and strategist in relation to joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions and restructuring exercises.

Peter has also been invited to sit on committees, sub-committees, and advisory boards of various organisations, such as, the Law Society of Singapore, Maritime Law Association of Singapore, Singapore Shipping Association, National University of Singapore Centre for Maritime Law, and the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration.

Peter read Law at the University of Nottingham and received an LL.M. (Maritime Law) from the National University of Singapore. Peter was admitted to the Middle Temple as a Barrister-at-Law in 1997 and became an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore in 1999.