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Carey Olsen Singapore LLP Offices
10 Collyer Quay #29-10
Ocean Financial Centre
Singapore 049315
Singapore
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Helen Wang
Work Department
Dispute Resolution and Litigation; Family Office; Private Client; Restructuring and Insolvency; Trusts and Private Wealth
Position
Helen TEP is a partner in our litigation, insolvency and restructuring practice in Singapore. She specialises in complex commercial litigation, shareholder disputes, estate and private clients related disputes, fraud and investigatory cases and insolvency and restructuring matters. She is a native speaker of Cantonese and Mandarin and fluent in English.
Helen has extensive experiences advising clients on cross-border litigation and handling high value disputes, covering a broad range of sectors, including banking and financial services, energy and resources, insurance and high net-worth individuals.
Helen has been listed as a Rising Star in The Legal 500 Asia 2023 Guide. She has also been named in the Asian Legal Business (ALB) Offshore Client Choice List, Top 10 Offshore Litigators and Asia 40 under 40 List for 2023.
Clients have praised Helen for being “extremely personable, super responsive and hard working” and for her “excellent legal knowledge and commercial sense.”
As an active supporter of advancing women’s interest in the legal community, Helen is a committee member on the IWIRC Diversity Inclusion and Belonging Committee and International Programming Committee. She is also the Asia lead of Carey Olsen’s Women’s Network which aims to facilitate meaningful collaboration and support amongst women across the firm and provide a framework to help women at Carey Olsen build on their talents and achieve their potential. Helen is also a full TEP member of The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP).
Representative matters:
- Acting for a Cayman Islands Listco with a market cap in excess of USD1 billion in a long-drawn shareholder dispute.
- Acting for shareholders of the Cayman holdco of a multimillion dollar renewable energy business in a contentious just and equitable winding up petition in the Cayman Islands Courts.
- Acting for a number of limited partners of a Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership in an action before the Cayman Islands Courts for a winding up of the partnership on the just and equitable ground.
- Acting for a minority shareholder in a power plant business in winding up proceedings in the courts of the BVI, which involve multiple proceedings across different jurisdictions and consideration of the principles applied by the BVI Court when dealing with an application for a stay of a winding up application on the just and equitable ground pending arbitration proceedings.
- Acting for a number of major creditors in the liquidation of a major cryptocurrency hedge fund.
- Acting for a major cryptocurrency lender in its restructuring.
Career
Before moving offshore, Helen trained and qualified as a litigator of a magic circle firm and practised there for over a decade. Helen had worked in Hong Kong, Singapore and London office of Clifford Chance, advising on various complex and high profile disputes.
Helen holds a first class honours law degree awarded by The University of Hong Kong and Bachelor of Civil Law awarded by University of Oxford. She is admitted in Hong Kong (also as a solicitor advocate) and England & Wales. She is also admitted as a solicitor of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (British Virgin Islands) and a registered Bermuda practitioner.
Languages
Helen is fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarin.
Memberships
Helen is a full TEP member of STEP, a committee member on the IWIRC Diversity Inclusion and Belonging Committee and International Programming Committee and a member of IPAS.
Lawyer Rankings
Singapore > Offshore
(Next Generation Partners)Carey Olsen Singapore LLP launched a Singapore office back in 2017 and in a short period has become the largest offshore firm in Singapore. Providing a full-service approach to the market, it covers dispute resolution, insolvency, banking and finance, corporate and M&A, and private wealth. The team provides Cayman, BVI, Bermuda and Jersey law expertise. It has a China desk, dedicated to advising Chinese clients on disputes, corporate and private wealth matters, and has achieved further growth in clients from Australia, Japan, South Korea and India. With one of the most established dispute resolution teams amongst the offshore firms in Singapore, the firm has made further headway in shareholder disputes, insolvency cases, trust and private wealth matters, and cases connected to Section 238 of the Cayman Islands Companies Act. The office is also noted for crypto disputes and other cases in the fintech arena. On the transactional side, the firm has experienced growth in Nasdaq listings using a Cayman or BVI vehicle, fund raising for large and mid-cap managers, and trusts and private wealth work for family offices and ultra high net-worth individuals. Anthony McKenzie is the Singapore office managing partner and head of the Asia corporate practice. Cayman and BVI admitted James Noble leads the firm’s litigation, insolvency and restructuring team in Asia, which includes fluent Mandarin and Cantonese speaker Helen Wang (‘ability to understand the Chinese business landscape is also unparalleled‘). Tom Katsaros heads the funds team.
Foreign-based expertise > Leading firms
With offices located in London, Hong Kong, and Singapore, Carey Olsen is very well-positioned to advise on a wide range of Caribbean-based matters surrounding Bermuda, BVI, and Cayman law. In Carey Olsen LLP’s London office, managing partner Jasmine Amaria is notable for her expertise in the BVI and Cayman law aspects of corporate, finance, and investment funds matters, including fund formation, M&A transactions, and joint ventures. Richard Brown, also in London, focuses his BVI practice on dispute resolution, litigation, and insolvency-related cases, which includes complex fraud and asset tracing cases. Carey Olsen Hong Kong LLP‘s practice is home to managing partner Michael Padarin, who is notably active in the formation, operation, and restructuring of private equity and venture capital funds, while Jeremy Lightfoot leads the disputes team, which also includes Tim Haynes and Matthew Watson. Haynes is particularly skilled in representing Asia-based clients in commercial disputes, while Watson is a Bermuda law specialist. In Carey Olsen Singapore LLP, managing partner Anthony McKenzie leads the corporate group for Asia with notable expertise in Cayman Islands, BVI, and Bermuda law, frequently handling corporate, investment funds, and finance transactions. James Noble sits at the helm of the litigation, insolvency, and restructuring department, and head of funds Tom Katsaros is another notable presence in the team, as is litigation specialist Helen Wang.