About

The legal team at Wilmar International, Asia’s leading agribusiness group, provides advice across the holding’s operations, which include 450 manufacturing plants in an extensive distribution network covering China, India, Indonesia and some 50 other countries. Based in Singapore, the team directs the legal activities of the group both locally and abroad, ensuring that its interests are protected. The department also provides business-centric advice to directors, senior management and company personnel on their individual and corporate legal obligations and rights involving all legal documents, and diligently supports the various business units by reviewing contracts and agreements and advising in corporate actions. The team is commended by nominators for being a driving force behind the organisation’s recent expansion across Southeast Asia by supporting investments in strategic projects and facilitating the formation of joint ventures. The team is led by group legal counsel La-Mei Teo, former secretary at investment holding company Kuok Singapore, who has been in his current position for nearly a decade.