Shook Lin & Bok LLP

Aditi Mathur heads the Firm’s India Practice. She is a partner in the Banking & Finance practice and the Environmental, Social and Governance practice of the Firm. She is a triple-qualified lawyer, with extensive experience in and qualifications to practice Singapore, Indian and English laws. She has expertise over a wide range of finance transactions including green and sustainable finance, acquisition finance, structured finance, real estate finance, ship finance, project finance, inter-bank borrowings and Indian external commercial borrowings. She brings value to her clients having handled deals from varied perspectives including that of lenders, borrowers, agents and trustees. Aditi works regularly with leading Indian banks and corporates in cross-border transactions. Her key strengths are her deep knowledge and expertise of the legal, regulatory, cultural and business environment in India and her ability to act as a link for clients in India looking to do business in Singapore and the South-East Asian region, and vice versa. Prior to joining Shook Lin & Bok, Aditi was an in-house legal counsel at the corporate legal department of one of India’s leading private sector banks, where she handled their acquisition financing and international corporate assets portfolios.

Alicea Tan

Alicea Tan specialises in investment funds. She advises both well-established and first-time managers on the structuring, formation, marketing and operation of open-ended and close-ended structures across Singapore vehicles (including Variable Capital Companies (VCC) and limited partnerships) and offshore vehicles, covering hedge funds, fund-of-funds, private equity and venture capital funds, debt funds, real estate funds and other asset classes and strategies. Her experience includes drafting and reviewing the full suite of fund documentation. In addition, Alicea advises institutional and corporate investors in their capacities as limited partners/investors. She also regularly advises asset and fund managers on the establishment of business operations in Singapore, related regulatory matters including licence/exemption applications and has counselled managers and their principals on internal structurings and related compliance and governance issues, working closely with the regulators, tax specialists and clients to provide holistic solutions. In Alicea’s private client practice, she advises private and HNW/UHNW clients on legacy succession matters and structuring and formation of family offices, family trusts, Section 13O/13U (formerly 13R/13X) structures, and drafts and reviews the full range of formation documents. Alicea is also involved in a variety of general corporate matters which includes downstream private equity and venture capital investments, financings and joint ventures.

Andrea Ng

Andrea Ng specialises in trust, asset and wealth management matters with a focus on REITs where she has broad experience in advising on various REIT transactional matters such as initial public offerings, equity fund raising exercises, debt financing, mergers and acquisitions and securitisation matters. She advises on securities, funds, capital markets intermediaries and trusts-related regulatory matters such as capital markets licensing and securities offering requirements, private trusts and wealth management matters. She also advises on the establishment of private funds (particularly real estate funds) and handles the full range of fund documentation ranging from establishment to the underlying investments of the fund, including trust deeds, limited partnership agreements, private placement memorandums, investment management agreements, subscription agreements and custodian agreements. Andrea also advises on a wide range of corporate finance matters, such as listed company transactions, as well as general corporate matters, such as private equity investments, start-up funding matters (both seed and Series A, B, C), joint venture agreements, shareholder agreements and various investment/subscription agreements. More recently, Andrea has been advising on regulatory and transactional matters related to virtual assets/digital tokens and in particular, the regulatory regime surrounding token offerings. She has also advised intermediaries operating in the virtual assets/cryptocurrency space such as issuers and platform operators on the relevant licensing and regulatory requirements. Prior to joining Shook Lin & Bok, Andrea worked in-house with the manager of a major Singapore-listed real estate investment trust which managed properties located in Singapore and overseas and she was involved in a range of REIT transactions. She also assisted with compliance issues and was involved in the drafting and implementation of compliance policies relevant to holders of a capital markets services licence issued by the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

Bryan Chang

Bryan Chang is a Partner in the Banking & Finance practice of Shook Lin & Bok. He has assisted in various banking and financial transactions including bilateral and syndicated lending, project finance, acquisition finance, vessel finance and receivables finance matters. Prior to joining Shook Lin & Bok, Bryan was with another leading Singapore law firm where he was a senior associate with the Banking & Finance practice. He was also attached to the project finance team of a leading Singapore bank for 6 months on a specialist secondment programme where he dealt with projects located in Myanmar, Vietnam, Indonesia and other jurisdictions. Bryan was awarded the ASEAN Undergraduate Scholarship, ASEAN Pre-University Scholarship and ASEAN Secondary School Scholarship.

Catherine Lim

Catherine’s principal area of practice is in trust, asset and wealth management matters with a focus on real estate investment trusts (REITs) and retail funds. She advises primarily trustees on matters during the life of a REIT including initial public offerings, debt financing, property acquisitions and mergers. Catherine regularly advises on the recognition of retail funds, securities/trusts-related regulatory issues and more recently, security token offerings. She has also worked on real estate-related private equity investments and a variety of general corporate matters.

Charles Lim

Charles’ practice is in litigation and arbitration matters, with a focus on banking-related disputes, corporate and commercial disputes, construction disputes and restructuring and insolvency matters. Charles also has experience in acting for and advising clients in respect of shareholder disputes, employment disputes as well as contentious probate disputes. Charles has represented and advised major banking and financial institutions, local construction companies and funds companies in Singapore Court proceedings and arbitration proceedings. Charles has also advised and acted in several construction adjudication proceedings commenced under the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act.

Chau Hwei Lee

Lee Chau Hwei specialises in a broad range of corporate real estate work, having gained extensive experience from being both in private practice and as an in-house counsel. He advises extensively on local as well as international corporate real estate transactions including direct and indirect acquisitions and disposals of hotels, commercial and industrial buildings and good class bungalows(, hotel management agreements, property joint ventures, built-to-suit developments, en bloc transactions and property management arrangements. He also specialises in commercial and industrial leasing, routinely acting for both major landlords and anchor tenants of commercial and industrial buildings in Singapore. His clients include property owners, real estate investment trusts (REIT) managers and trustees, business trusts, property funds, multinational corporations, property developers, local and international investors, statutory boards, banks and financial institutions. Prior to joining Shook Lin & Bok, Chau Hwei was general counsel in one of Asia's leading hospitality REIT where he managed and oversaw hotel and hotel-related transactions in Asia Pacific and Europe. He was also a partner with a leading Singapore law firm and a deputy public prosecutor and state counsel with the Attorney-General’s Chambers of Singapore where he versed in civil litigation and criminal prosecution matters.

Claudia Khoo

Claudia’s area of practice include banking and finance-related litigation, insolvency and restructuring and general commercial litigation, with a focus on banking and financial disputes, personal and corporate insolvency. She regularly advises many of the major local and foreign banks and financial institutions in Singapore on a broad range of banking facilities and security documentation and often represents them in the recovery and realization of their securities and assets. Claudia also acts for the accounting firms and insurance companies and has acted for the Monetary Authority of Singapore on matters relating to personal and corporate insolvency.

Clement Khoo

Clement Khoo regularly acts for financial institutions, large corporates and SMEs in both local and cross border banking transactions, including acquisition finance (both public and private), property and development finance, capital call / subscription finance, project finance, trade finance and restructuring.

Daniel Tan

Daniel Tan’s main areas of practice are banking & financial disputes, with a particular focus on cross-border restructuring and insolvency. He regularly advises and represents corporate debtors, institutional creditors and turnaround professionals in special situations. His practice also encompasses shareholders’ disputes, corporate fraud, asset recovery and investigations. Daniel is a regular tutor for the insolvency and professional skills modules and an advocacy trainer in the preparatory course for the Singapore Bar Examinations run by the Singapore Institute of Legal Education.

Daryl Fong

Daryl Fong is a partner in Shook Lin & Bok’s Litigation & Dispute Resolution department, with a focus on commercial disputes, international arbitration, cross-border restructuring and insolvency, insolvency-related litigation and fraud. He also has extensive experience in the following areas: financial services and securities, shareholder disputes, directors’ duties and employment law. Daryl regularly advises and acts for insolvency professionals, institutional and corporate creditors and multinational corporations, amongst others. He has appeared as lead counsel at all levels of the Supreme Court of Singapore and in international commercial arbitrations administered by leading arbitral institutions.

David Lee

David Lee acts for both lenders and borrowers for local and cross-border, bilateral and syndicated bank finance transactions across the Asia-Pacific region for both investment grade and leveraged borrowers, including asset, acquisition, property and trade finance. Prior to joining Shook Lin & Bok, David practised with one of the biggest global law firms in Singapore for more than two years.

David Chan

David Chan has been a Partner of Shook Lin & Bok since 2004. He has wide experience in general commercial litigation with particular focus on domestic and cross-border finance-related litigation, fraud and insolvency matters. He is also involved in international commercial arbitrations and corporate and shareholders' disputes. David is a member of the Complaints and Disciplinary Panel of the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority. He was a former member of the Valuation Review Board under the Ministry of Finance, Singapore and former legal assessor to the Singapore Medical Council.

David Chong, PBM

David Chong specialises in corporate and corporate finance, with particular experience in the communications, media, technology, energy and natural resources sector. He has particular experience on cross-border transactions, having started his career in London before relocating to Asia. His principal focus is on mergers and acquisitions (both public and private), including tender offers, schemes, reverse takeovers, privatisations and de-listings, joint ventures, MBOs, earn-outs, asset purchases, restructurings, anti-trust and merger control. He is a governor of the Singapore International Foundation, a member of the Catholic High School Management Committee and secretary to the Singapore Deposit Insurance Corporation. He was also awarded the Public Service Medal (Pingat Bakti Masyarakat) by the President of the Republic of Singapore in 2022.

Dayne Ho

Dayne Ho practises in the areas of corporate and corporate finance, with a focus in mergers and acquisitions, equity capital markets, private equity and regulatory advisory work. He has extensive experience in advising international and local companies (both listed and unlisted) on a wide range of cross-border corporate transactions in Asia. Originally a corporate restructuring lawyer, Dayne broadened his practice with varied professional experience from his previous stints in-house with a multinational company and in private practice with an international law firm and a local law firm where he co-headed its corporate finance practice. His strengths lie in his commercial acumen and strong connectivity with clients. He has advised on a number of mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, joint ventures, disposals, initial public offerings, debt financing and listing compliance and governance matters.

Deborah Wong

Deborah Wong is a partner in the banking and finance practice. She acts for and advises financial institutions and borrowers on a range of domestic and cross-border transactions, including relating to real estate financing, acquisition financing and project financing.

Eric Chan

Eric Chan heads the financial services regulation practice. His work includes advising and helping banks and other financial institutions to understand and comply with Singapore financial regulatory rules and regulations. He works with financial institutions new to the Singapore market in helping them secure the requisite approvals, authorisations or exemptions, as well as existing financial institutions in relation to ongoing compliance issues. Eric’s work covers the full spectrum of the financial services sector in Singapore, and he works regularly with banks, financial advisers, insurers and insurance brokers, fund managers, securities brokers and other intermediaries. Eric is also extensively involved in advising various financial institutions as well as corporate clients on privacy and personal data protection, as well as anti-bribery controls. Eric started private practice doing general commercial and corporate litigation. He later joined the Monetary Authority of Singapore as in-house counsel, where he provided legal support and advice on various regulatory initiatives. During this time, Eric also concurrently taught banking law as an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the National University of Singapore. In 2003, Eric was seconded from the Monetary Authority of Singapore to the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, as a research fellow where he wrote a paper on payment systems law. After his stint, he re-joined the Monetary Authority of Singapore MAS as Head of International & Regional Relations where he led a policy team working on international central banking issues, including implementation of various international regulatory standards within Singapore. In 2006, Eric joined American Express Bank and served as the Regional Director for Compliance & Ethics responsible for compliance matters across the Asia-Pacific region. Eric returned to legal practice in 2008 and was until 2014, a director in another leading Singapore law firm where he had helped to set up and lead their financial services regulation practice.

Eu Jin Pok

Eu Jin specialises in cross-border banking and finance transactions and has advised a range of corporate borrowers and lenders on both structured/leveraged acquisition financings, syndicated lending, mezzanine financing as well as debt restructuring exercises, across various jurisdictions. He also has in-depth international capital markets experience advising arrangers and issuers on a broad range of Rule 144A/Reg S “straight debt” and equity-linked bond offerings as well as the establishment of assorted global and euro MTN, CP and CD debt issuance programmes and is well-versed in various techniques of liability management and debt restructuring such as tender offers, exchange offers and consent solicitations. Prior to returning to Singapore in 2011 and joining Shook Lin & Bok, Eu Jin practised in London with a magic circle law firm, Clifford Chance, for close to seven years, acting for corporate borrowers/issuers as well as lenders/dealers and trustees on both bank finance and debt capital markets transactions.

Gang Wong

Wong Gang specialises in corporate finance, equity capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, listing compliance and governance, China practice, and general corporate advisory. His areas of practice include initial public offerings, secondary listings, cross-border dual listings, rights issues, issuance of securities and other instruments by companies from Singapore, China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Bermuda and other jurisdictions. He also advises on mergers and acquisitions, reverse take-overs, direct investments, joint ventures involving listed and private companies in Singapore, China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Bermuda and other jurisdictions. He is a member of the Ministry of Law’s Advisory Committee for the China-Ready Programme for Singapore’s Legal Industry.

Gwendolyn Gn

Gwendolyn Gn's principal areas of practice are corporate finance and regional mergers & acquisitions. She has extensive experience in domestic IPOs (SGX Mainboard and Catalist) and cross-border and dual listings including NASDAQ, ASX and HKSE, as well as debt/bond listings for local and international corporations. Gwendolyn is also active in acting for both listed and other corporations in regional mergers & acquisitions, takeovers and RTOs. She also regularly advises listed clients and financial institutions on corporate governance, regulatory and corporate compliance issues. Gwendolyn serves as an Independent Director of SGX Main Board listed UMS Holdings Limited as well as Company Secretary to various SGX Main Board and Catalist listed companies.

Ian Chew

Ian Chew advises on the formation of a variety of hedge, private equity, venture capital, real estate, single investor and family funds using both Singapore (including Variable Capital Companies) and offshore (including Cayman Islands Segregated Portfolio Companies) fund structures. He drafts and reviews the full range of fund documents, including private placement memorandums, investment management agreements, subscription agreements, administration agreements, custody agreements as well as constitutional documents such as memorandum and articles of association, limited partnership agreements and trust deeds. In addition, he also assists with coordinating the offerings of such funds in the relevant foreign jurisdictions. His clients include independent asset managers, external asset managers, multi-family offices and single family offices. He regularly advises fund management companies on securing the relevant regulatory licences and exemptions (including Capital Markets Services Licences and Registered Fund Management Companies). He has an extremely strong track record for such applications submitted to and approved by the Monetary Authority of Singapore because he works closely with the relevant governmental authorities and provides clear guidance to clients during the start-up and preparation phase. He has extensive experience in advising private clients (including ultra-high net worth individuals and single family offices) and trustees on the establishment of private trusts, single family offices, single family funds, Sections 13O and 13U structures, (including the Global Investor Programme) as well as drafts and reviews the relevant trust, fund and family charter documents.

Jamal Siddique

Jamal Siddique has a wide range of experience in litigation, arbitration and insolvency matters, with a focus on trade finance disputes, banking-related disputes, and fraud. Jamal has also acted in matters concerning the Mental Capacity Act and was a volunteer lawyer for the NUS In-Person Deputyship Programme, providing pro-bono assistance on MCA applications. He regularly appears both as lead and assisting counsel at all levels of the Courts. Jamal graduated with First Class Honours from University College London in 2013. He was appointed Young Amicus Curiae by the Supreme Court for 2 years, in 2018 and 2019. Jamal was the recipient of the Singapore Academy of Law Overseas Attachment and was attached to leading barristers at Fountain Court Chambers in 2020.

Jane Ittogi

Jane Ittogi has expertise in alternative dispute resolution, in particular international arbitration. She deals with a range of financial and commercial issues, including litigation of corporate disputes, and has advised on documentary credit, banking issues, trading in shares and commodities and forex contracts and securities regulation. In litigation, the major matters she has worked on centred on insolvency issues with the leading cross-border matters involving Indonesia. She has also expertise in restructuring. After undergoing pupillage at a set of leading commercial chambers, she spent several years working in London lecturing in banking, shipping and commercial law at undergraduate and post-graduate levels and as head of an in-house legal department. Upon her return to Singapore, she worked as feature and leader writer at The Straits Times for a few years, before deciding to return to law.

Jevon Louis

Jevon Louis specialises in intellectual property (IP) law, technology and data privacy. He is well-suited for this area of practice as he is technically qualified with a degree in mechanical engineering, a registered Singapore patent attorney, and an advocate and solicitor of the Singapore Supreme Court. Jevon’s experience extends to both contentious and non-contentious IP, technology and data matters spanning across multiple industries including, pharmaceuticals, renewable energy, manufacturing, construction, logistics and semiconductors. Jevon represents clients in court proceedings as well as in alternative dispute resolution proceedings and has extensive experience in IP enforcement disputes, technology disputes, and data breach and compliance matters. On the non-contentious side, Jevon oversees the firm’s IP filing and registration practice, advises on IP and technology transactions, including providing IP strategy, related business intelligence, audits, and advice on data management, sharing and compliance. The practice also provides support to start-ups in the digital economy through the preparation of IP registrability, infringement and validity opinions, performing patent prior art and freedom to operate searches, and drafting of licensing, distributorship or franchising agreements, as well as various other technology related agreements. Jevon is a member of the Association of Singapore Patent Attorneys (ASPA), Asian Patent Attorney Association (APAA), International Trademark Association (INTA), Institute of Singapore Trade Mark Agents (ISTMA) and Institution of Engineers Singapore (IES). He also speaks at seminars, particularly on topics relating to intellectual property, technology and data privacy matters, and is a tutor for the Intellectual Property Practice module under Part B of the Singapore Bar Course.

Joseph Chun

Dr Joseph Chun is an environmental lawyer. He leads the Firm’s Environmental, Social and Governance practice and is concurrently an adjunct associate professor and a member of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL) at the Faculty of Law in the National University of Singapore (NUS), where he teaches environmental law. He has written widely on environmental law and ESG, and is the lead author of Singapore’s only environmental law textbook. Joseph volunteers as a member of the Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity Association’s (SVCA) ESG Committee, the Asia Pacific regional board of the Global Alliance of Impact Lawyers (GAIL), the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) World Commission on Environmental Law, and the Mandai Wildlife Group’s Animal Welfare and Ethics Committee. He also regularly works with local green civil society groups on advocacy projects and reports.

Joseph Tay

Joseph Tay specialises in Litigation & Dispute Resolution, International Arbitration and Construction & Projects. As a dispute resolution specialist, Joseph has a strong track record in securing favourable outcomes for his clients, with a remarkable win-ratio in matters where he has acted as lead counsel. He has appeared at all levels of the Supreme Court of Singapore, in international commercial arbitrations administered by leading arbitral institutions, and in adjudication proceedings commenced under the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act (Cap. 30B). Clients have described Joseph to be “formidable” and “talented” as an advocate, and “spectacular” in his conduct of trials and cross-examination. Joseph’s experience and expertise extends to a wide range of matters relating to contractual disputes, interlocutory injunctions and freezing (Mareva) order injunctions, financial services and securities, building and construction, infrastructure and projects, real estate sale and lease, employment laws and directors’ duties, non-competition obligations and restrictive covenants, commodities and trade, restructuring and insolvency, shareholders’ disputes and commercial fraud. Joseph is a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Joseph is listed on the panel of arbitrators for the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (Reserve Panel) and on the panel of arbitrators for Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (Secondary Panel). Joseph is concurrently a member of the Inquiry Panel of the Law Society of Singapore.

Jun De Soong

Soong Jun De specialises in commercial dispute resolution, with a particular focus in shipping and commodities / trade disputes. He regularly advises on disputes involving shipbuilding, ship sale and purchase, ship management, charterparties and cargo loss and damage, as well as demurrage or despatch and cargo off-specification claims.

Kai Zee Liew

Liew Kai Zee is the Managing Partner of the Firm and heads the Banking & Finance Practice. He has over 25 years of experience advising financial institutions and major corporates on a broad range of domestic and international financing, securitisation and debt restructuring and maintains his position as the only ranked lawyer in the Legal 500 Asia Pacific Hall of Fame for Banking & Finance. He has extensive experience in advising on syndicated lending, structured finance, leveraged buy-outs and acquisition finance, structured commodity and trade finance, Islamic finance, ESG finance, project finance, property development finance, vessel finance, REIT financing, cross-border finance, sale of debts, debt programmes, rated and unrated commercial mortgage backed securities and securitization programmes. Kai Zee also advises financial institutions on regulatory and compliance matters. In addition, he has represented bank and non-bank creditors, companies, regulators and insolvency practitioners in various consensual and non-consensual debt restructurings and insolvency matters in Singapore and the region. With the knowledge and experience which he has accumulated over the past two decades in his area of practice, Kai Zee is also the legal trainer for a number of banks in Singapore and the region.

Kelvin Wong

Kelvin Wong specialises in local and cross-border financings. He is experienced in advising on various banking and financial transactions including secured and unsecured lending, acquisition financing, property financing, syndicated and bilateral lending and interbank borrowings. He has represented local and international banks, financial institutions, real estate investment trusts, small and medium sized enterprises and multinational corporations in various financing transactions.

Kimberly Neo

Kimberly Neo practices in the areas of corporate and corporate finance, with a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions. She has worked with international corporations, local listed and unlisted companies and high net-worth individuals in a broad range of corporate transactions, including acquisitions, take-overs and joint ventures. Kimberly also gained invaluable experience as in-house counsel in a leading global integrated resorts developer prior to joining the firm.

Kit Fei Wong

Wong Kit Fei practises in the areas of corporate and corporate finance, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, including public takeovers, private acquisitions and joint ventures.

Lee Ping

Lee Ping’s practice encompasses a diverse range of litigation and arbitration work including employment, insolvency, shareholders’ and other contractual and tortious disputes. Lee Ping has represented and advised multinational corporations, local and foreign listed companies, insolvency practitioners, funds, fund administrator and investors, company directors and numerous high net-worth individuals. She also represents individuals charged with economic crimes and regulatory offences and in the course of her volunteering with the Law Society’s Criminal Legal Aid Scheme, has been exposed to a broad range of criminal matters.

Li Fang Teo

Teo Li Fang practises in the areas of corporate and corporate finance, with a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions and private equity and venture capital investments. She has advised clients on both the sell-side and buy-side across various sectors ranging from technology to consumer related businesses. She also regularly advises clients on non-transactional matters such as incorporation of companies, internal reorganisations, employee share option plans and other general commercial matters. Prior to joining the Corporate M&A team at Shook Lin & Bok, Li Fang trained in the commercial litigation team at one of the leading law firms in Singapore.

Luisa Lim

Luisa Lim’s practice areas include corporate and corporate finance, with a focus on equity capital markets, mergers and acquisitions and regulatory compliance work. She has acted for listed companies on initial public offerings, corporate restructuring, fund-raising exercises, reverse take-overs, de-listings and listing compliance and corporate governance matters. She also advises clients on a range of commercial transactions, including acquisitions, private equity investments and joint ventures.

Mae Shaan Teo

Teo Mae Shaan’s area of practice comprises a broad range of corporate matters, with a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions, corporate, employment and regulatory compliance. She advises multi-national corporations and private companies on their mergers and acquisitions and investments as well as on their general corporate matters such as advising on their commercial and operations related agreements, licence applications. Her particular focus is in the healthcare sector where she has assisted clients in the due diligence, negotiations and acquisitions of healthcare institutions and advising on various regulatory and compliance matters. Mae Shaan’s expertise in employment includes drafting and advising clients on employment contracts, employee share and incentive schemes, employment handbooks, organisational restructuring issues, redundancy exercises and termination of employees, as well as advising on restrictive covenants and fiduciary duties. Mae Shaan also acts for companies and financial institutions on initial public offerings, secondary offerings and debt issuances. Her expertise includes advising companies listed on the SGX-ST on compliance with post-listing requirements of the SGX-ST and her experience includes having advised on performance share plans/share option schemes, dividend reinvestment schemes, share buyback mandates, share issue mandates and other corporate transactions. Prior to joining the Firm as a Partner, Mae Shaan previously worked in a leading local law firm in Singapore and a leading international law firm in both Singapore and in London where she has advised on a number of equity capital markets, debt capital markets, mergers and acquisitions and other corporate and commercial transactions.

Marilyn See

Marilyn See is a debt capital markets and banking lawyer with a strong focus on debt capital markets, having advised arrangers and issuers on a broad range of DCM transactions including standalone issues and offerings, MTN, CD and debt issuance programmes, private placements and securitisation (including both rated and unrated mortgaged-backed or receivables backed securities) involving a range of asset classes including consumer loans, commercial property, residential mortgages and residential property. She previously spent close to two years on secondment with the DCM team of a magic circle firm in Tokyo. She also focuses on corporate banking, having advised financial institutions and borrowers on a wide variety of banking transactions including domestic and cross border syndicated lending, acquisition finance (including proposed takeovers of Singapore listed companies), trade and project finance, property development finance, asset and asset-backed finance.

May Loo

May Loo specialises in a broad range of real estate work and has advised extensively on all types of commercial, industrial and residential property transactions including direct and indirect acquisitions and disposals of commercial and industrial buildings, including sale and leasebacks, and built-to-suit developments, and commercial and industrial leasing. Her practice also includes advising on property-related aspects of mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other corporate transactions. Her clients include real estate investment trusts (both managers and trustees), multinational corporations, banks and other financial institutions, property owners and tenants of industrial and commercial buildings.

Mei Choo Chew

Chew Mei Choo has more than 40 years of experience in corporate real estate transactions. She has advised on all types of commercial, industrial and residential property transactions including securitisation and real estate investment trusts. Her clients include listed companies, both offshore and local multinational corporations, banks and other financial institutions, real estate investment trusts and other types of landlords and tenants. Her practice also includes advising on property development and finance and the property-related aspects of mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other corporate transactions. She has also served in various sub-committees of the Law Society of Singapore including the Conveyancing Practice Committee and has organised and co-ordinated seminars on behalf of the Law Society.

Melissa Huang

Melissa Huang is a debt capital markets and banking lawyer with a strong focus on debt capital markets, having advised arrangers, issuers and trustees on a wide range of debt capital market transactions, including the establishment and update of MTN programmes, standalone bond issuances and liability management exercises, including consent solicitations, tender offers and exchange offers. She also has considerable experience advising corporate and sovereign issuers, and managers and underwriters, on the listing of foreign debt securities on the SGX.

Moses Lin

Moses Lin is Head of Shipping and Commodities at the firm. He specialises in commercial dispute resolution, with particular experience in shipping and commodities/trade disputes. He advises clients on risk mitigation, commercial litigation and arbitration, and has acted as counsel in the State Courts, the High Court and the Court of Appeal in Singapore. His experience extends to contractual and tortious disputes, corporate insolvency, bankruptcy, directors’ duties, shareholder disputes, defamation, employment disputes, as well as foreign and domestic judgment/award enforcement actions. Whilst his expertise covers a wide spectrum of industry sectors, Moses leads the firm’s shipping and commodities practice. He regularly advises on disputes involving shipbuilding, ship sale and purchase, ship management, charterparties and cargo loss and damage, as well as demurrage or despatch and cargo off-specification claims. On the transactional front, Moses advises on ship sale and purchase agreements as well as ship building contracts. Moses is an Accredited Mediator with the Singapore Mediation Centre(SMC) and an Adjudicator for the SMC Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Scheme. He is also on the Panel of Mediators in the Law Society Mediation Scheme, and a member of the Maritime Law Association of Singapore. He was also previously appointed as an independent director of a company listed on the Singapore Exchange.

Pearlyn Xie

Pearlyn Xie has been involved in a wide range of corporate matters, with a particular focus on corporate finance, regulatory compliance and mergers and acquisitions. In the area of corporate finance, Pearlyn has acted for listed companies on initial public offerings, cross-border dual listings, reverse take-overs, de-listings and fund-raising exercises such as rights issues and placements. This includes advising listed companies on compliance with post-listing requirements of the SGX-ST. She has also been involved in a variety of general corporate matters and has advised both listed and private companies on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and private equity investments.

Perry Yuen

Perry Yuen’s area of practice covers corporate finance, namely, mergers and acquisitions (both public and private companies, and in Singapore and the region) and equity capital markets, privatisations, corporate restructurings and rescues, and advising on securities regulations. Through the course of his work, Perry has dealt with Singapore regulators extensively, and he is particularly adept at resolving legally and commercially challenging and complex transactions.

Probin Dass

Probin Dass practises in the area of commercial litigation and arbitration, with a particular focus on shipping, insolvency, and trade-related matters. He often advises banks and corporations in respect of complex multi-jurisdictional disputes involving letters of credit, bills of exchange, bills of lading, charter parties, marine insurance, credit insurance, and employment matters.

Ruizi Lin

Ruizi’s practice encompasses a diverse range of litigation, arbitration and disputes advisory work – including cryptocurrency / Web3 related disputes, investment and shareholder disputes and restructuring and insolvency. He has extensive experience and commercial familiarity with the abovementioned areas. He also has substantive experience in international trade disputes and REIT-related disputes. Ruizi has advised and acted for multinational corporations, insolvency professionals, institutional and corporate creditors, investors and founders, company directors and shareholders, and high net-worth individuals (in particular several clients from the PRC). He has appeared in several high-profile matters at all levels of the Supreme Court of Singapore and various international commercial arbitrations.

Sally Lee

Sally practises in the areas of corporate and corporate finance, specialising in mergers and acquisitions. She regularly advises on both buy-side and sell-side mandates across jurisdictions in Asia and has significant experience in healthcare, technology and consumer-related businesses. Her practice spans private equity and venture capital investments and exits, strategic transactions, joint ventures, early-stage financing, public takeovers and delistings. Sally is part of the working group that contributes to Singapore’s venture capital investment model agreements (VIMA).

Sarjit Singh Gill, SC

Sarjit Singh Gill has extensive experience in a broad range of litigation and arbitration matters, with a special focus on corporate and commercial disputes, banking-related disputes, shareholders’ disputes, professional negligence and fraud. He also has an active international arbitration practice, having been involved in a significant number of complex arbitrations in Singapore and abroad. Notably, Sarjit has acted both for and against Indian parties in international arbitration matters. With more than 40 years of experience, Sarjit is also involved in many domestic and cross-border restructuring and insolvency matters, some of which are significant and high profile in nature. His clients include insolvency practitioners (liquidators, judicial managers, administrators, etc), accounting firms, financial institutions and non-bank creditors. Sarjit is a board member of the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore and the Urban Redevelopment Authority, non-executive director of Heliconia Capital Management Pte Ltd and has served on the Board of the Central Provident Fund from 2012 to 2018. He is a member of the Life Imprisonment Review Board, The President's Pleasure Review Board, Long Imprisonment Review Board and MAS Appeal Advisory Panel. He has also been appointed to serve as a member of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) Panel of Arbitrators and has served as a member of the Singapore International Mediation Centre Specialist Mediator Panel (Singapore) from 2020 to 2022.

Serene Yeo

Serene Yeo practices in the areas of corporate and corporate finance work, with particular experience in domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and corporate restructuring matters. She has handled many cross-border corporate transactions, with clients ranging from venture capital and private equity funds to large conglomerates (public listed and private companies).

Sherman Ho

Sherman’s areas of focus include commercial litigation, banking and finance litigation, arbitration, insolvency and restructuring matters. His other areas of practice include employment related matters and criminal litigation. Sherman acts for local and foreign banks, individuals, liquidators and judicial managers and has represented them at all levels of the Courts in Singapore as well as in arbitrations. His criminal practice includes representing accused persons and entities in the State Courts and the High Court who face charges under, amongst others, the Penal Code, the Misuse of Drugs Act, the Prevention of Corruption Act and the Protection from Harassment Act. Sherman was the Co Vice-Chairperson of the Law Society Social & Welfare committee from 2017 to 2019 and he regularly volunteers with the Law Society’s Criminal Legal Aid Scheme.

Shi Ying Chua

Shi Ying’s practice areas include corporate and corporate finance, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions. She has worked with some of the largest corporations in Singapore (listed and unlisted), as well as leading international groups on domestic matters and cross-border transactions.

Shirin Swah

Shirin Swah specialises in Litigation & Dispute Resolution, International Arbitration and Construction & Projects. Shirin’s practice encompasses a diverse range of litigation and arbitration work with a focus on employment, insolvency, building & construction, and commercial & contractual disputes. She has also advised and acted in several construction adjudication proceedings commenced under the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act. Shirin has acted for major local banks and financial institutions, multinational corporations, local construction companies and insolvency practitioners.

Stanley Lim

Stanley Lim specialises in banking and finance (both domestic and international) and has also worked on initial public offerings of shares involving domestic as well as PRC companies and other equity capital market transactions. His principal focus is on bilateral and syndicated loans, collective sale financing, trade finance, project finance, acquisition finance and assets and assets-backed finance and corporate and debt restructuring.

Wei Shyan Tan

Tan Wei Shyan focuses on corporate finance and securities transactions, including initial public offerings (IPOs), dual/secondary listings, strategic investments, corporate restructuring, fund-raising exercises and securities regulation compliance by public listed companies. He is also active in commercial transactions covering various areas of corporate practice, including joint ventures and acquisitions and disposals of corporate assets involving public and private companies.

Woon Hum Tan

Tan Woon Hum is widely regarded as one of the rare senior market leaders specialising in investment funds, REITs and trusts, especially VCCs and family offices. He heads a team of specialist lawyers in the Trust, Asset & Wealth Management practice. Investment Funds Ranked as a Band 1 leading investment funds lawyer by Chambers Asia-Pacific since 2014, Elite Practitioner by AsiaLaw Leading Lawyers in 2023, and top 100 lawyer in Singapore by Asia Business Law Journal in 2023, he advises on fund formation, (including hedge funds, private equity funds, venture capital funds, real estate funds and single-family funds) using Singapore funds (including VCC) and offshore funds structures (eg. Cayman LP funds, Cayman SPCs and Luxembourg funds). He drafts and reviews the full range of fund documents including private placement memorandum. He is extremely well versed with independent asset managers, external asset managers, multi-family offices and single-family offices, and has an extremely strong track record in securing the relevant regulatory licences and exemptions. His excellent and long-term professional relationship with the local regulators, authorities and major industry players add credence to his practice. He has advised on and helped clients launched more than 100 VCCs. Private Client & Wealth Management He has extensive experience in advising private clients (including ultra-high net worth individuals and single-family offices) and trustees on the establishment of private trusts, family offices, single-family funds, Sections 13O and 13U (formerly 13R and 13X) structures and drafts trust documents, fund documents, global investor programme documents and family charters. Corporate Real Estate & REITs He advises on structures for complex real estate investments, joint ventures and tender projects. His clients include sovereign wealth funds, corporates and property funds. He has extensive experience in advising on the establishment and initial public offering (IPO) of REITs. He has an in-depth knowledge of the REITs regulations and industry and has been involved in numerous S-REIT IPOs, post-IPO acquisitions, equity fund raising exercises, debt financing and securitisation locally and regionally since the S-REIT infancy stage, including mergers of REITs.

Xiaofei Guo

Guo Xiaofei heads the Firm’s China Practice and she specialises in Capital Market, M&A and foreign direct investment (FDI) in China. Since joining the Firm in 2009, she has been involved in a number of China-related IPOs, private and public takeovers in Singapore, FDIs in PRC and cross-border investments in Asia. Xiaofei is based in Singapore but travels regularly between Singapore and China advising clients on a wide range of matters, including Chinese clients’ overseas investments, financing and IPO structures, as well as Singapore and foreign clients’ investments, especially in the mining and energy, TMT, advertising, commercial and residential property, project and retail industries in China. Prior to joining Shook Lin & Bok, Xiaofei worked on China-related M&A, FDI and IPO transactions in another Singapore law firm.

Yeow Khoon Ng

Ng Yeow Khoon specialises in banking & finance-related litigation, insolvency and restructuring and general commercial litigation. He regularly advises and has acted for many of the major local and foreign banks and financial institutions in Singapore in their banking disputes and insolvency matters. Yeow Khoon’s area of practice also includes debt restructuring, schemes of arrangement, judicial management and liquidation (both voluntary and compulsory).

Ying Ming Ho

Ho Ying Ming practises in the areas of corporate and corporate finance, and he has extensive experience in domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, complex corporate restructuring and reorganisations, as well as private equity investments. He has advised global private equity and venture capital firms, financial institutions, emerging growth companies, sovereign wealth funds and multinational corporates in an extensive range of corporate transactions, including public takeovers, private acquisitions and joint ventures.

Ying Yi Siow

Ying Yi advises on a range of corporate and corporate finance matters, with particular focus on mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity investments, regulatory compliance and general corporate transactions. Ying Yi graduated with a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Commerce from The University of Western Australia, where she was a recipient of the St Catherine’s College Scholarship and the UWA Undergraduate Learning & Teaching Research Intern Scholarship.

Yiting Zhang

Zhang Yiting’s practice area is in Litigation & Dispute Resolution, International Arbitration and Restructuring & Insolvency. Yiting has advised and acted for corporate and individual clients in a wide range of legal disputes, including matters relating to contract law, shareholders’ disputes, breach of directors’ duties, restructuring and insolvency, trust law, employment law and intellectual property law. Yiting graduated from the National University of Singapore on the Overall Dean’s List. She was appointed as a Facilitator for the “Professional Skills” module of the Part B Course in 2019 and 2020.

Zhi Ming Tan

Tan Zhi Ming specialises in local and international banking and finance. He is experienced in acting for financial institutions and corporate borrowers, with especial proficiency in property development finance, acquisition finance, project finance, trade finance and assets-backed finance. Many of his transactions have involved cross-broader arrangements with considerable dealings with assets based in Indonesia and Malaysia. He also has extensive experience in handling security documentation such as mortgages, debentures, charges, assignments, guarantees, subordination deeds and security sharing deeds.

Ziwei Lim

Lim Ziwei practices in the areas of corporate and corporate finance, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining the Firm, Ziwei previously worked in a leading local law firm in Singapore where he advised and was involved on a number of equity capital markets, mergers and acquisitions and other corporate and commercial transactions.

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