OUR FIRM
Since inception in 2001, Gomez & Vasu LLC has strived to be at the cutting edge of our specialist areas of expertise through the pursuit of innovative resolutions to legal problems. Our extensive knowledge and experience cut across the full range of commercial, corporate, regulatory, family advisory and criminal issues, and uniquely positions us to advise clients in the most sensitive and complex corporate, litigation and arbitration cases.
Led by Winnifred Gomez and Rakesh Vasu, who collectively hold over five decades of experience between them, we aim to deliver the best outcomes for our clients, ranging from small enterprises to large multinational corporations, private individuals and families.
Our commitment to maintaining an inclusive workplace enables us to recruit and nurture our dedicated employees. Support staff, trainees and qualified lawyers at the firm receive our own brand of training with the highest standards of integrity and ethics to guide them throughout their professional lives.
PRINCIPAL DIRECTORS
Winnifred Gomez
Winnifred, a committed and dedicated lawyer in Family and Civil practice was called to the Bar in Singapore in 1987. Her invaluable experience in exploring and negotiating amicable resolutions takes priority and when that is no longer an option, her fervour in litigating her clients’ needs has earned her deserving respect. Her meticulous attention to the knocks and turns of her clients’ situations has helped to save many a parent and child from the harshest of predicaments. The earnest gratitude of clients has continued to feed her passion and calling. Winnifred has led international and cross-border familial battles right up to the Court of Appeal in Singapore and the Federal Courts of New York. She is equally devoted in her practice of Civil law which encompasses contract and commercial litigation, negligence cases, personal injury claims and construction disputes. Winnifred remains an active volunteer at AWARE’s legal clinic.
Rakesh Pokkan Vasu
Rakesh, having been admitted to the Bar in England and Wales in 1996 and in Singapore in 1998, shepherds the firm’s team in Commercial litigation, Corporate practice, Criminal law and Arbitration work. He is a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators. Rakesh is a master negotiator and the experience and skills he has honed through the years have helped achieve successful cross-border commercial agreements involving diverse business cultures, ranging from mergers and acquisitions to shareholders’ disputes and international training contracts, to name a few. He leads the firm’s corporate and litigation division including alternative dispute resolution processes in wide areas of business and law including oil, gas and energy and intellectual property. Rakesh’s fiery drive, determination and unquestionable sense of commitment permeates his practice of Criminal law and he personally counsels troubled youth and teenagers towards a better way forward.
OUR PRACTICE
Working collaboratively and in partnership with our clients, we form our thinking around their needs to ensure that we deliver the right solutions when it matters. Everything we do is driven by the needs of our clients.
Cross Border Expertise
We work wherever our clients need us to be, locally and internationally. We maintain a collaborative and cohesive culture which underpins the quality of our work and our client service. The firm has built meaningful relationships with counterpart law firms in Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Myanmar, China, Sri-Lanka, Hong Kong, Papua New Guinea, East Timor, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, among others.
Other Areas of Practice
The firm’s practice also includes Administrative and Constitutional Law, Adoption, Wills and Probate, Employment Law, Construction Litigation, Accident and Personal Injury, Insolvency, Workmen’s Compensation, Insurance and Arbitration.
Pro Bono Services
Gomez & Vasu LLC is committed to being a responsible member of the legal profession. Through our pro bono work, we seek to make meaningful contributions to the lives of others and the community we live in. Respect for the rule of law, administration of justice, assertion and defence of human rights including the right of access to and miscarriages of justice remain at the heart of our firm’s values and the way we practise.
CONTACT
Gomez & Vasu LLC
12 Eu Tong Sen Street
#07-167 SOHO 2 @ Central
Singapore 059819
T (65) 6733 6229
F (65) 6733 9661
E lawyers@gomezvasu.com
W gomezvasu.com