Drew & Napier LLC

Dispute Resolution

Director, Dispute Resolution

Shu Mei is a sought-after advocate, international speaker, and a trusted advisor to the modern family.

With a niche practice in private client and family disputes, Shu Mei appears regularly as advocate at all levels of the Singapore Courts on all matters affecting the family including division of matrimonial assets, maintenance, family violence, complex custody and international relocation, as well as trust and property disputes.

As an accredited mediator and an accredited Collaborative Family Practitioner, she strives to find common ground even in the most complex of cases in negotiations and mediations, whether as an advocate or a neutral.

She has particular expertise drafting and negotiating prenuptial, postnuptial, financial arrangement and parenting agreements between family members.

Shu Mei has been appointed to the Board of Governors of the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) as an Asia Pacific Chapter Delegate in 2023. She was appointed a Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) in 2021. IAFL is a worldwide association of practicing lawyers who are recognized by their peers as the most experienced family law specialists in their respective countries.

She has provided legal expert opinions to assist the High Court of England and Wales, the High Court of Bombay, the Federal Court of Australia and the Family Courts of New Zealand.

Shu Mei is also a Certified Digital Assets Advisor (CDAA) and has used her knowledge and expertise to resolve complex family disputes involving uncovering cryptocurrency and other forms of digital assets.

Shu Mei’s formative experience is rooted in commercial litigation and international arbitrations, and she has acted for corporations under SIAC, ICC, CIETAC, UNCITRAL and DIAC rules and is a member of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators.

Shu Mei also speaks regularly about family law, private wealth, valuation of businesses, dispute resolution and mediation at local and international conferences.

She is also the co-author of various academic articles and practitioner guides both locally and internationally.

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Asia Pacific Chapter Delegate, International Academy of Family Lawyers Fellow, International Academy of Family Lawyers Member, Singapore Institute of Arbitrators Accredited Mediator, Singapore Mediation Centre, Singapore International Mediation Institute Collaborative Family Practitioner, Singapore Mediation Centre Member, International Academy of Collaborative Professionals Assessor, Panel of Assessors for COVID-19 Temporary Relief, Ministry of Law Member, Law Society of Singapore Family Law Practice Committee 2020-2023; Member, Organising Committee of Family Law Conference 2019, 2021, 2023

LLB (Hons), The University of Manchester (2008) Graduate Diploma in Singapore Law, National University of Singapore (2009)