Giva Balasingam

Areas of Practice
Family Law

Description
Called to the bar in both Canada and Singapore, Givalatha’s (Giva’s) Corporate Advisory practice straddles both Jurisdictions.

More than being experienced in drafting, negotiating and reviewing of various transactional documents that are highly complex in nature, she is also able to negotiate management contracts to achieve desired commercial and regulatory outcomes and is experienced in drafting strategic decision documents for her corporate, small business clients, environmental and civil engineering contracts.

Her added value is being able to collaborate well with both legal counsel as well as technical personnel because of her keen commercial understanding of these industries.

Giva’s Corporate Advisory and Corporate Governance work spans across Singapore and foreign companies as well as governmental organizations.

Her scope of corporate work includes cross border transactions, takeovers, joint ventures and M&A. Giva’s experience include civil litigation, wills and estates, real estate, commercial, business, and family law.

Giva is an active member with the Malaysian, Singapore and Brunei Community Association and with a host of other Asian communities.

In her free time, Giva likes to hike. She has hiked Tiger Nest and other Passes in Bhutan in 2018, Ha-Ling Pass, and other similar Passes in Alberta from 2013 to 2016, Nepal to base camp of Mount Everest (Tibet) in 2009 and Silk Road (China route) from Xi-Ann to Burqin in 2007.