A director at Ince Gordon Dadds' formal law alliance in Singapore has left to rejoin a local firm – the latest in a string of senior departures in the city-state since Gordon Dadds' tumultuous takeover of Ince & Co at the end of last year.

Moses Lin joins Shook Lin & Bok as a partner, focusing on commercial litigation and arbitration in the maritime and commodities sectors. He will head the firm's maritime practice.

Lin leaves Incisive Law, Ince's formal law alliance partner firm since 2011, after almost three years with the firm. He joined as an associate director in 2016 after the departure of Incisive Law co-head Mohan Subbaraman, who left for Reed Smith alongside former Ince & Co Singapore managing partner Richard Lovell. Lin was promoted to director in 2017.

Previously, Lin was an associate at Hill Dickinson and Clyde & Co's Singapore joint law venture firm, Clasis. Earlier in his career, he also practised with U.K.-based insurance services firm Charles Taylor and was an associate at Shook Lin & Bok.

Lin is the latest senior lawyer to leave Incisive Law or Ince's Singapore office since late last year, right around the time when Ince & Co agreed to a merger with Gordon Dadds. Since then, Ince's Singapore office lost its managing partner John Simpson, finance head Martin Brown and global terminals and maritime infrastructure practice head Ton van den Bosch, as well as Incisive Law director Felicia Tan. Simpson and Brown both jumped to Stephenson Harwood, van den Bosch joined Addleshaw Goddard and Tan left for local firm TSMP Law Corp.

Lin's departure leaves Incisive Law with just two directors: joint managing directors Bill Ricquier and Edgar Chin. Ince currently has four partners in Singapore: office head and ship finance specialist Devandran Karunakaran, maritime lawyer Harry Hirst and disputes lawyers Maureen Poh and Nicholas Lum.

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