Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP

Deputy Head, Corporate and Transactional Practice
Head, Capital Markets
Senior Partner, Mergers & Acquisitions

Evelyn Wee is the Deputy Head of the Corporate and Transactional Group. She also heads the Capital Markets Practice and is a senior partner with the Mergers & Acquisitions Practice. She has more than 30 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions, private equity / venture capital investments and capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings. She regularly advises, inter alia, listed vehicles on their corporate/compliance matters and clients on cross border transactions, which include investments in, and divestments of, businesses and assets in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe and South America.

Evelyn has been recognised as a leading / recommended lawyer in major ranking publications such as Chambers Asia-Pacific – Capital Markets: Domestic and Chambers Global, IFLR1000 in Capital Markets and M&A, The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific in Capital Markets / M&A, Best Lawyers, Who’s Who Legal and asialaw.

She was most recently awarded Dealmaker of the Year at the Asian Legal Business SE Asia Law Awards 2024 and Equity Capital Markets Lawyer of the Year at the Women in Business Law Awards 2023 Asia-Pacific, and was identified as a “Dealmaker of Asia 2022 and 2023” by Asian Legal Business, which recognises lawyers who have overcome challenges to deliver deals for their clients. Most recently, she has been shortlisted as a finalist for the “Women Dealmakers Hall of Fame” award at the IFLR Asia-Pacific Awards 2024. Evelyn has been commended as “a very detailed lawyer who puts in a lot of care for her clients“, appreciating her for “consistently making an extra effort on transactions”. In addition, she is described as “valued by clients for her dedication and commerciality”, “excellent”, and “patient, understanding and goes the extra mile”. Evelyn graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1989 and was admitted to the Singapore Bar in March 1990 and to the Roll of Solicitors of England and Wales in 1998. She is also an Accredited Mediator of the Singapore International Mediation Institute.