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WongPartnership LLP Offices
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12 MARINA BOULEVARD, LEVEL 28
MARINA BAY FINANCIAL CENTRE TOWER 3
SINGAPORE 018982
Singapore
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Ms Vivien Yui
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Work Department
Business Establishment; Corporate Governance & Compliance; Employment; Health Sciences & Biotechnology; Mergers & Acquisitions; Philippines; Professional Services
Position
Vivien Yui is the Co-Head of the Employment Practice and is a Partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Establishment, Corporate Governance & Compliance, Health Sciences & Biotechnology, Professional Services and Philippines Practices.
Career
Her main practice areas are private mergers and acquisitions, employment, corporate governance and compliance and general corporate and commercial work.
Vivien practises general corporate law, with an emphasis on representing private equity investments, especially in biotechnology and biomedical companies. As the Joint Head of the Firm’s Employment Practice, she regularly advises multinational corporations on their global share incentive plans and establishment of local employment practices, benefits and policies. She also assists clients with immigration law and regulatory issues.
Work Highlights
Significant transactions that Vivien has been involved in include advising / acting for the following:
- GlaxoSmithKline plc (“GSK”), as Singapore counsel, on corporate/commercial and employment matters in relation to GSK’s three-part transaction with Novartis International AG (“Novartis”) pursuant to which GSK acquired Novartis’s global vaccines business (excluding influenza vaccines) for an initial cash consideration of US$5.25 billion. The deal was one of the winning deals in Asian-Mena Counsel Deals of the Year, 2015.
- ESR Funds Management (S) Limited (the manager of ESR-REIT), in the merger with Viva Industrial Trust by way of a trust scheme of arrangement. The merger values Viva Industrial Trust at S$936.7 million and creates Singapore’s fourth largest industrial REIT with approximately S$3 billion in property assets. This deal won Best Singapore Deal at the FinanceAsia Awards 2018 and M&A Deal of the Year (Midsize) at the ALB SE Asia Law Awards, 2019.
- Clearbridge Health Limited (“CBH”) in the acquisition of 49% of the issued and paid-up share capital of PT Tirta Medika Jaya (“TMJ”) by Clearbridge Medical Asia Pte. Ltd., an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of CBH, from Ark Investments (SG) Pte. Ltd. In connection with the Acquisition, CBMA also subscribed for an exchangeable bond issued by PT Genesis Kapital Investama, one of the shareholders of TMJ.
- Clearbridge BioMedics Pte. Ltd. in its S$6.6 million pre-IPO financing and the consolidation of its capital structure by converting all preferred shares and convertible securities to ordinary shares of Clearbridge BioMedics in preparation for the potential IPO.
- EFG BANK AG, Singapore Branch in the acquisition of BSI Bank Limited’s Singapore private banking business. This follows the announcement on 22 February 2016 by EFG International and BSI Bank that EFG International will acquire BSI Bank to form one of the largest private banks in Switzerland with approximately CHF 170 billion in assets under management, for a purchase price of approximately CHF 1,328 million.
- Skyworks Solutions, Inc., in the labour and work visa matters in relation to its joint venture with Panasonic Corporation to design, develop and deliver high performance filters, including surface acoustic wave (“SAW”) devices and temperature compensated SAW devices (“TC-SAW”) and the acquisition by the joint venture of Panasonic Corporation’s SAW and TC-SAW business in Singapore.
Publications & Legal Updates
- The Legal 500: Country Comparative Guides – Singapore – Employee Incentives, 2024
- Thomson Reuters Practical Law Employee Share Plans Global Guide 2024 – Singapore Chapter
- LegisWatch: New Tripartite Guidelines on Flexible Work Arrangement Requests Effective December 2024
- LegisWatch: SGX RegCo Requires Large Issuers to Take Lead to Reduce AGM Crunch, Reserve AGM Slots in Advance
- LegisWatch: Changes to Mandatory Training Requirement for First-time Directors of SGX-listed Issuers
- LegisWatch: Changes to Conduct of Meetings: Companies, Business Trusts and Other Bodies (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 2023 and Listing Manual Practice Notes on General Meetings
- LegisWatch: Changes to the Global Investor Programme
- LegisWatch: Changes to Listing Rules: Tenure of Independent Directors Capped at Nine Years; Remuneration of Directors and CEOs Must Be Disclosed
- LegisWatch: Budget 2023 – Employment Updates
- LegisWatch: Enhanced Tripartite Guidelines on Exercising Sensitivity for Harmonious Workplace
Languages
English, Mandarin
Memberships
Vivien periodically tutors the Advanced Corporate Practice of the preparatory course leading to Part B of the Singapore Bar Examinations run by the Singapore Institute of Legal Education.
Education
Admitted, Singapore Bar, 1997; National University of Singapore (LL.B., Hons.), 1996.
Lawyer Rankings
Singapore > Labour and employment: local firms
(Leading individuals)WongPartnership LLP has consolidated its position in the labour and employment field as a result of its substantial resources of both contentious and non-contentious expertise, and increasing levels of specialisation. It continues to work on major misconduct investigations, large-scale retrenchments, and trade union negotiations. It also has extensive experience in transfers of employees, employee incentive plans, and immigration matters. The team represents some of Singapore and Southeast Asia’s largest corporates, in addition to a multitude of other multinationals. Vivien Yui co-heads the group, providing longstanding experience in non-contentious engagements, with fellow co-head and ‘go-to lawyer‘ Jenny Tsin impressing in employment litigation and investigations.
Comparative Guides
Singapore: Employee Incentives | February 2024 | This country-specific Q&A provides an overview of Employee Incentives laws and regulations applicable in Singapore. |
Lawyer Rankings
- Labour and employment: local firms Singapore
- Leading individuals Singapore > Labour and employment: local firms
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Antitrust and competition: local firms
- Banking and finance: local firms
- Capital markets: equity and debt: local firms
- Capital markets: structured finance, derivatives and securitisation: Local firms
- Construction: Local firms
- Corporate and M&A: local firms
- Dispute resolution
- Fintech and financial services regulatory: local firms
- International arbitration
- Labour and employment: local firms
- Private wealth and family law – local firms
- Projects and energy: local firms
- Real estate: local firms
- Restructuring and insolvency: local firms
- Start-up and venture capital – Local firms