Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP

Insurance & Reinsurance

Partner, Insurance & Reinsurance

Elaine is a Partner with over 20 years’ experience in the Commercial Litigation Practice / Insurance and Reinsurance Practice. She is highly regarded as one of the top lawyers in Singapore in the commercial litigation practice with special emphasis on insurance and construction law.

Elaine is ranked in Chambers Asia Pacific 2024, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024 and Asialaw Profiles 2024 as one of the leading lawyers in Insurance and Reinsurance, and is recommended in Best Lawyers 2023 for Insurance law. She has also achieved the Asia Women in Business Law Awards 2019 for Insurance and Reinsurance Practice.

As independently evaluated by Chambers Asia-Pacific Guide for Singapore, “clients praise Elaine for her ‘thorough and concise’ opinions … ‘she renders advice which is both relevant and practical, with minimal fluff.’”

Well known in the field of insurance law, Elaine has represented and acted as coverage counsel and defence counsel for insurers in and/or from Singapore, Australia, Japan, Korea, France, Switzerland, Germany, United States of America and Bermuda.

In the first case of its kind in Singapore, in 2011, Elaine successfully represented a Korean insurer, Hanwha Non-Life Insurance Co Ltd, in its claim under an open cover reinsurance programme before the High Court in Singapore.

Elaine is also sought after by clients (insurers, insureds and brokers) for her advice on various classes of insurance, including property and energy, casualty, liability, financial lines, credit and surety, life and personal lines; and compliance and regulatory issues including obtaining the requisite licences, transfers of insurance business and advising on policy wording for various classes.

Elaine has advised and represented property developers in the construction industry, local and international contractors, EPC contractors, professional consultants relating to projects in Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, China which include power plant projects and mining projects.