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Our practice

Built so good judgment
is never rationed.

Apex & Crowne was founded on a frustration with how advisory firms scale: a partner wins the work, then disappears. We built the opposite — a boutique where the senior voice is the working voice.

Founded 2008 · Singapore & London · Partner-led by charter

Our mission is unglamorous and exacting. Be the counsel we wished we had.

We measure ourselves against a standard most firms quietly abandon as they grow: that the person who understands your matter best is the person doing the work on it.

What we refuse to be

  • A name on a pitch deck and nowhere else
  • Advice optimised for billable hours
  • Jargon that obscures rather than clarifies
  • A firm too large to remember your context

What we hold ourselves to

  • A partner accountable end to end
  • Advice optimised for your outcome
  • Plain English you can act on with confidence
  • A boutique that knows your business by name

The record

Eighteen years of compounding judgment.

A boutique by design. Every engagement is led by a partner who answers your call.

  • 18 yrs

    In continuous practice

    Founded 2008; partner-led since day one.

  • $2.4B

    Transaction value advised

    Across M&A, financings, and restructurings.

  • 240+

    Engagements completed

    For founders, boards, and family offices.

  • 11

    Jurisdictions

    Coordinated cross-border counsel.

Your counsel

The partners who do the work.

No account managers, no handoffs to juniors. The name on the engagement letter is the name in the room.

Eleanor Crowne

Managing Partner — Corporate & M&A

Twenty-two years across corporate law and transactions, including a decade leading cross-border deals out of Singapore and London. Eleanor founded the firm on a simple premise: senior judgment should not be rationed.

Marcus Apex

Head of Tax & Assurance

A chartered accountant and tax counsel who has built defensible structures for operating groups across eleven jurisdictions. Marcus is the person clients call before they make a move, not after.

Priya Anand

Head of Strategic Advisory

Former in-house counsel and corporate-development lead who now runs the firm’s buy-side and sell-side mandates. Priya translates commercial intent into deal terms that hold up.

What we stand for

Three principles, held without exception.

Values are only real when they cost something. These have.

I

Candour over comfort

We tell clients what they need to hear, including when the right advice is to do nothing, or to walk away. The relationship is worth more than the fee on any single matter.

II

Judgment over volume

We take on fewer engagements than we could, deliberately. A boutique earns its premium by being present, not by being everywhere.

III

Discretion as a default

Much of our best work is never spoken of. Confidentiality is not a clause for us; it is the operating temperature of the firm.

In their words

What clients say when the deal is done.

A boutique earns its reputation one engagement at a time. These are fictional, illustrative voices.

"They were the only advisers who told us what not to do. That restraint saved us a fight we would have lost. When we did move, the structure was airtight."

Daniel Reyes

Chief Financial Officer · Meridian Industrial Group

"I have worked with three of the big firms. Apex & Crowne is the first where a partner read my term sheet personally and called me the same day. That is the whole difference."

Sofia Lindqvist

Founder & Chief Executive · Northwind Logistics

"For a family office, trust is the entire product. They have handled four generations of structuring decisions with discretion and a steadiness you cannot fake."

Charles Whitmore

Principal · Whitmore Family Office

Work with us

If this is how you would want to be advised, let us talk.

A first conversation with a partner is the best way to know whether we are the right fit. It is free and held in confidence.