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Lisa Theng

Lisa Theng

CNPLaw LLP, Singapore

Work Department

Corporate and Dispute Resolution

Position

Managing Partner

Career

As a managing partner, Lisa sees a need to ensure that our clients see us as their business partner and not as just a legal service provider. Our aim is to provide innovative legal solutions for our clients across Asia with a high level of service and support that will help our clients better manage and succeed in their own businesses.

Lisa believes it is important that our lawyers understand the sectors in which they work. She has been involved with healthcare, oil and gas, manufacturing, engineering, distribution, trading, exhibition, publishing, food and beverage and leisure and entertainment companies on a range of issues. She also regularly works with private equity and venture capital companies and funds. You will find that all of our people have commercial awareness as well as expertise in the law.

She was one of two representatives for Asia on the board of directors (2016 to 2021) and was Chair Asia Pacific Region (2018 to 2021) in Interlaw, an international association of independent law firms found in 150 cities worldwide.   She has been an independent director of companies listed in Singapore, Hong Kong and Nasdaq as well as private companies such as Sunseap Group Pte Ltd and Eagle Eye Centre Pte Ltd.  She is a current independent director of Swan & Maclaren Group Pte. Ltd.

Lisa has been in practice since 1991. Some of the transactions in which she played a leading role include:

Advised the shareholders in a prominent oil and gas company in their sale of shares to a leading private equity firm in a US$120 million acquisition Acted for the substantial shareholders of a company which manufactures healthcare products with factories in China in the sale of its shares to a leading private equity firm in a deal Advised the management of the SUTL group of companies in its acquisition of several companies running a chain of leading F&B restaurants Advised the Audit Committee of a Listed Singapore company over the fraudulent acts of its managing director and advising the Board in relation to ensuring good corporate governance in the Company Advised a UK and US listed group of companies in its acquisition of assets in relation to events, conference and exhibitions sector in Shanghai, China

Languages

English

Education

LLB (Hons), National University of Singapore, 1990

Leisure

Tennis

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