Carey Olsen

Dispute Resolution and Litigation; Family Office; Private Client; Restructuring and Insolvency; Trusts and Private Wealth

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.

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.

Helen is fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarin.

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.