Team

Raman is a Director with the Firm. She trained and qualified with a leading international law firm in Singapore specializing in construction. Raman worked with Baldev in her previous role and moved with the team when BlackStone & Gold was set up. Her expertise covers a broad range of international trade and construction related issues in the energy and commodities sector.

Nikhil is a Singapore-qualified lawyer and a law graduate of the University of Cambridge. Nikhil has worked for the Singapore office of an international law firm, as well as one of Singapore’s leading law firms where he worked on various commercial disputes.

Nikhil’s practice at present covers commercial disputes with a focus on international trade disputes. He has argued before the Singapore Courts and has been involved in Singapore and UK arbitration matters.

Nikhil has a keen interest on climate and environmental law. He assisted drafting a model bilateral investment treaty for Gambia with a focus on environmental protection. He has also published several research papers in the areas of climate change law and policy, sustainability and the interplay of AI and the law. Nikhil has previously held appointments at the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law in the National University of Singapore. Away from work, Nikhil is also the International Environmental Law Program Coordinator with the Global Pro Bono Bar Association.

Nikhil speaks English, Malay, Bahasa Indonesia and Spanish.

Dora Neo is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. She was the founding Director of the Faculty’s Centre for Banking & Finance Law and is Director of its LLM (Corporate and Financial Services Law) programme. Her current research focuses on modernisation of trade finance, global developments in secured transactions law, consumer protection in the financial industry, and contract law. Her work on trade finance has been referred to by courts in Singapore and other jurisdictions.

She was previously Vice-Dean (Research & Graduate Studies) at NUS Law and Director of its Continuing Legal Education Programme. She has spoken or taught at institutions in Asia, the UK, USA, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. She has been a member of the Accreditation Committee of the Singapore Institute of Legal Education (SILE) since the inception of its Continuing Professional Development programme in 2012. She was an expert adviser on the Singapore delegation to United Nations Commission for International Trade Law (UNICTRAL) meetings in Vienna, Austria (2023) and New York City, USA (2024). She was appointed by the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) as a Correspondent for Singapore for two consecutive three-year terms ending in 2028 and serves as an Advisory Committee Member for the UNIDROIT Asian Transnational Law Centre. 

She is a first-class honours graduate of Oxford University and holds an LLM from Harvard Law School. She is a non-practising member of the Bar in London (Gray’s Inn) and in Singapore.