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Clifford Chance Offices
MARINA BAY FINANCIAL CENTRE
25TH FLOOR, TOWER 3, 12 MARINA BOULEVARD
SINGAPORE 018982
Singapore
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Lena Ng
Position
Lena Ng leads the financial regulatory practice in our Singapore office and advises on financial regulatory issues relating to financial services and market products, including banking services, securities, futures, derivatives, funds and payment services.
Lena advises banks, financial institutions, corporates (including commodities houses), funds and payment service providers on licensing requirements, exemptions, conduct of business and other regulatory requirements. In addition, she advises on custody, collateral, netting and clearing issues, as well as cash and credit risk management.
Lena’s practice extends to advising on bank secrecy, confidentiality and data privacy. She also advises on fintech, cryptocurrency and blockchain related matters.
Career
Admitted as solicitor in Singapore 1997
Admitted as solicitor in England & Wales 2000
University College London (LLM) 2001
Joined Clifford Chance London 2001
Clifford Chance Hong Kong 2004
Admitted as solicitor in Hong Kong 2007
Clifford Chance Singapore 2009
Partner since 2017
Lawyer Rankings
Singapore > Fintech and financial services regulatory: foreign firms
(Leading partners)Clifford Chance‘s offering is underpinned by its expertise in banking and finance, incorporating experience in banking, payments and export finance transactions as well as non-contentious and contentious regulatory issues across the financial sector, including derivatives, automated trading systems and payments. The team also leverages its ‘expertise across multiple jurisdictions’ to handle regulatory investigations, a key area of work for expert litigators Kabir Singh and Janice Goh. Lena Ng heads up the team. Her broad practice runs the gamut of financial regulatory work, with licensing, exemptions, and innovative new financial products all areas of expertise. Counsel Mae Yen Teoh is at the forefront of transactional derivatives work.
Singapore > Investment funds: foreign firms
Clifford Chance has devoted considerable resources and senior expertise to its thriving investment funds practice. It represents a long list of regional and international fund managers, along with a number of sovereign wealth funds and other institutional investors. It has a primary focus on private funds, with additional expertise in retail funds and regulatory matters. US qualified Kai-Niklas Schneider, ‘the most genius lawyer in the universe’, is a long-serving partner in Singapore, who has built a fine reputation in private equity, real estate, infrastructure funds and credit funds. Daryl Liu is Singapore qualified and another pivotal member of the team. Lena Ng leads the financial regulatory practice in Singapore, while Luke Chen and Chloe Cheng are key figures at counsel level.
Lawyer Rankings
- Fintech and financial services regulatory: foreign firms Singapore
- Investment funds: foreign firms Singapore
- Leading partners Singapore > Fintech and financial services regulatory: foreign firms
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Capital markets: structured finance, derivatives and securitisation: Foreign firms
- Corporate and M&A: foreign firms
- Fintech and financial services regulatory: foreign firms
- International arbitration
- Investment funds: foreign firms
- Labour and employment: foreign firms
- Capital markets: structured finance, derivatives and securitisation: Foreign firms
- Capital markets: structured finance, derivatives and securitisation: Foreign firms
- Projects: foreign firms
- Restructuring and insolvency: foreign firms
- TMT: foreign firms