Clarinda Tjia-Dharmadi

Clarinda Tjia-Dharmadi is a partner at McDermott Will & Emery Singapore LLP. Ms Tjia-Dharmadi specializes in international project development and project finance transactions and has advised on many of Asia’s landmark oil and gas, petrochemicals, mining, power and infrastructure projects. International legal and financial publications have consistently praised her work and acknowledged her as a leading lawyer in the project development and finance space. The American Lawyer has named her “Project Finance Lawyer of the Year” in its Emerging Markets Awards and Euromoney has twice honoured her with its Asia Women Business Law Awards for “Best in Energy and Natural Resources”. She is ranked in the top tier for projects in Indonesia and Singapore by Chambers Asia-Pacific 2018. Ms Tjia-Dharmadi is also named in International Financial Law Review and Legal 500 Asia-Pacific as a recommended lawyer for project finance, as well as in Who’s Who Legal in Singapore as one of the leading attorneys in the area of oil and gas. Miss Tjia-Dharmadi read law at Queen Mary College, London, was called to the bar in England and Wales at the Inner Temple and is currently practising as a solicitor of England and Wales.

Miss Tjia-Dharmadi serves on the Executive Board of the Singapore Chapter of UN Women. She launched Latham & Watkin’s Women Enriching Business (WEB) initiative in Asia and was named to the inaugural list of the 100 BoardAgender champions of diversity in Singapore, a non-profit focused on the advancement of women to Board seats and senior leadership roles in companies across Asia. An ardent supporter of the arts and culture, she and her husband, Mr Christopher D. Martin, have been repeated recipients of the National Art Council’s Patron of the Arts Award. Previously a Board Member of the Asian Civilizations Museum, she currently sits on the Ladies League of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and the Fundraising Gala Committee of the National Gallery Singapore.

Outside the office, Ms Tjia-Dharmadi finds equilibrium through a large extended family life with her private equity husband and their two exuberant sons, along with a keen interest in the arts, poetry, and horses. She can regularly be spotted in the dressage and show jumping arenas at the Singapore Polo Club, as well as on the polo field.