Simmons & Simmons

Corporate & Commercial

Ying is a leading practitioner in the IT and media sectors, specialising in technology transactions, intellectual property, regulatory matters and funding/M&A of technology companies.

She is a partner of our Digital Business Group in Singapore. Having a front row seat to the fast evolving Web3 space since 2017, she works closely with companies leveraging on blockchain across various sectors such as social/digital media, games, music, enterprise software and services and commodities. She has also developed a niche in the metaverse and NFT space, drawing from the combination of her experience in the IT and media sectors and her multi-jurisdictional experience in protecting, commercialising and enforcing a variety of IP rights.

Ying often collaborates with other counsel to streamline and provide holistic advice to clients with international businesses, covering a gamut of issues, such as corporate structuring, data (data servers, cybersecurity, data protection), e-commerce regulations, intellectual property and technology transactions.

Ying is consistently named a leading individual for TMT law by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific and has been ranked by Chambers & Partners Asia Pacific in TMT, IP Litigation and Startups & Emerging Companies. In 2018, she was also named one of Singapore’s top lawyers by Asia Business Law Journal and one of the world’s top ten cryptocurrency experts by The Cryptocurrency Magazine.