Shook Lin & Bok LLP — Singapore

Aditi Mathur

Aditi Mathur heads the Firm’s India Practice. She is a partner in the Banking & Finance practice and the Environmental, Social and Governance practice of the Firm. She is a triple-qualified lawyer, with extensive experience in and qualifications to practice Singapore, Indian and English laws. She has expertise over a wide range of finance transactions including green and sustainable finance, acquisition finance, structured finance, real estate finance, ship finance, project finance, inter-bank borrowings and Indian external commercial borrowings. She brings value to her clients having handled deals from varied perspectives including that of lenders, borrowers, agents and trustees. Aditi works regularly with leading Indian banks and corporates in cross-border transactions. Her key strengths are her deep knowledge and expertise of the legal, regulatory, cultural and business environment in India and her ability to act as a link for clients in India looking to do business in Singapore and the South-East Asian region, and vice versa. Prior to joining Shook Lin & Bok, Aditi was an in-house legal counsel at the corporate legal department of one of India’s leading private sector banks, where she handled their acquisition financing and international corporate assets portfolios. · Banking & Finance

Alicea Tan

Alicea Tan specialises in investment funds. She advises both well-established and first-time managers on the structuring, formation, marketing and operation of open-ended and close-ended structures utilising vehicles such as the Singapore Variable Capital Companies (VCC) and limited partnerships as well as offshore vehicles, covering traditional assets and alternatives (hedge, private equity, venture capital, private credit, real estate, digital assets and other asset classes and strategies). Her experience includes re-domiciliations and restructuring of existing fund structures, portfolios and investors. Alicea advised two (2) of the 18 fund managers selected for the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s VCC pilot programme and completed the launch and redomiciliation of the respective funds on the same day the VCC regime went live in Singapore. In addition, Alicea advises sovereign wealth and other institutional investors on a range of LP matters concerning their anchor investments. She also regularly advises asset and fund managers on the establishment of business operations in Singapore, related regulatory matters including licence/exemption applications and has counselled managers and their principals on a wide range of compliance and governance issues, liaising regularly with Singapore regulators. In Alicea’s private client practice, she advises private and HNW/UHNW clients on legacy succession matters and structuring and formation of family offices, private trusts and Section 13O/13U structures. Alicea is also involved in a variety of general corporate matters which includes downstream private equity and venture capital investments, financings and joint ventures. · Investment Funds

Andrea Ng

Andrea Ng specialises in trust, asset and wealth management matters with a focus on REITs where she has broad experience in advising on various REIT transactional matters such as initial public offerings, equity fund raising exercises, debt financing, mergers and acquisitions and securitisation matters. She advises on securities, funds, capital markets intermediaries and trusts-related regulatory matters such as capital markets licensing and securities offering requirements, private trusts and wealth management matters. She also advises on the establishment of private funds (particularly real estate funds) and handles the full range of fund documentation ranging from establishment to the underlying investments of the fund, including trust deeds, limited partnership agreements, private placement memorandums, investment management agreements, subscription agreements and custodian agreements. Andrea also advises on a wide range of corporate finance matters, such as listed company transactions, as well as general corporate matters, such as private equity investments, start-up funding matters (both seed and Series A, B, C), joint venture agreements, shareholder agreements and various investment/subscription agreements. More recently, Andrea has been advising on regulatory and transactional matters related to virtual assets/digital tokens and in particular, the regulatory regime surrounding token offerings. She has also advised intermediaries operating in the virtual assets/cryptocurrency space such as issuers and platform operators on the relevant licensing and regulatory requirements. Prior to joining Shook Lin & Bok, Andrea worked in-house with the manager of a major Singapore-listed real estate investment trust which managed properties located in Singapore and overseas and she was involved in a range of REIT transactions. She also assisted with compliance issues and was involved in the drafting and implementation of compliance policies relevant to holders of a capital markets services licence issued by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. · Trusts & Wealth Management

Belle Teh

Belle Teh specialises in banking and finance, with extensive experience in debt capital markets. She has acted as legal counsel in a wide range of transactions, including the establishment of multicurrency debt programmes and the issuance of bonds and convertible bonds. Belle has also advised on liability management exercises, including exchange offers and consent solicitations for SGX-listed issuers. Her experience encompasses advising financial institutions, multinational corporations, and professional trustees and agents on a variety of complex financing transactions. · Banking & Finance

Bryan Chang

Bryan Chang is a Partner in the Banking & Finance practice of Shook Lin & Bok. He has assisted in various banking and financial transactions including bilateral and syndicated lending, project finance, acquisition finance, vessel finance and receivables finance matters. Prior to joining Shook Lin & Bok, Bryan was with another leading Singapore law firm where he was a senior associate with the Banking & Finance practice. He was also attached to the project finance team of a leading Singapore bank for 6 months on a specialist secondment programme where he dealt with projects located in Myanmar, Vietnam, Indonesia and other jurisdictions. Bryan was awarded the ASEAN Undergraduate Scholarship, ASEAN Pre-University Scholarship and ASEAN Secondary School Scholarship. · Banking & Finance

Catherine Lim

Catherine’s area of expertise is in trust, asset and wealth management with a focus on real estate investment trusts (REITs) and investment funds. She advises on transactions through the life cycle of a REIT including representing trustees on initial public offerings, debt financings and mergers, and advising sponsors and trustees on cross-border acquisitions and divestments. Catherine also advises fund managers on the offer of foreign funds in Singapore, and on regulatory issues and developments relevant to financial institutions and their businesses. In addition, Catherine’s experience includes real estate-related private equity investments, securities token offerings, and general corporate matters. · Trusts & Wealth Management

Charles Lim

Charles is a disputes resolution lawyer with expertise in a wide range of commercial disputes. He is well-versed in dispute resolution procedure and regularly appears as advocate before all levels of the Singapore court, in arbitration proceedings and in mediation proceedings. Notable areas of his practice include banking and finance disputes, employment disputes, real estate & tenancy disputes, contentious insolvency proceedings, construction disputes, commodities trade disputes and arbitration-related court proceedings. Charles regularly acts for and advises banks, private capital funds, real estate investment trusts (in their capacity as landlords), construction companies, SMEs and high net worth individuals. Charles also volunteers as a tutor for NUS’ trial advocacy module and is a contributor to Singapore Civil Procedure. · Litigation

Clement Khoo

Clement Khoo regularly acts for financial institutions, large corporates and SMEs in both local and cross border banking transactions, including acquisition finance (both public and private), property and development finance, capital call / subscription finance, project finance, trade finance and restructuring. · Banking & Finance

Daryl Fong

Daryl Fong is a partner in Shook Lin & Bok’s Litigation & Dispute Resolution department, with a focus on commercial disputes, international arbitration, cross-border restructuring and insolvency, insolvency-related litigation and fraud. He also has extensive experience in the following areas: financial services and securities, shareholder disputes, directors’ duties and employment law. Daryl regularly advises and acts for insolvency professionals, institutional and corporate creditors and multinational corporations, amongst others. He has appeared as lead counsel at all levels of the Supreme Court of Singapore and in international commercial arbitrations administered by leading arbitral institutions. · Litigation

David Chan

David Chan has been a Partner of Shook Lin & Bok since 2004. He has wide experience in general commercial litigation with particular focus on domestic and cross-border finance-related litigation, fraud and insolvency matters. He is also involved in international commercial arbitrations and corporate and shareholders' disputes. David is a member of the Complaints and Disciplinary Panel of the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority. He was a former member of the Valuation Review Board under the Ministry of Finance, Singapore and former legal assessor to the Singapore Medical Council. · Litigation

David Chong, PBM

David Chong specialises in corporate and corporate finance, with particular experience in the communications, media, technology, energy and natural resources sector. He has particular experience on cross-border transactions, having started his career in London before relocating to Asia. His principal focus is on mergers and acquisitions (both public and private), including tender offers, schemes, reverse takeovers, privatisations and de-listings, joint ventures, MBOs, earn-outs, asset purchases, restructurings, anti-trust and merger control. He is a governor of the Singapore International Foundation, a member of the Catholic High School Management Committee and secretary to the Singapore Deposit Insurance Corporation. He was also awarded the Public Service Medal (Pingat Bakti Masyarakat) by the President of the Republic of Singapore in 2022. · Corporate / M&A

David Lee

David Lee's role is to provide legal and regulatory advice to the Firm. His responsibilities also extend to legal, compliance and privacy operations, and internal audit. He is a member of the Firm's Management Committee and our Data Protection Officer. Previously, David was a partner in the Firm’s Banking & Finance practice. · Banking & Finance

Dayne Ho

Dayne Ho practises in the areas of corporate and corporate finance, with a focus in mergers and acquisitions, equity capital markets, private equity and regulatory advisory work. He has extensive experience in advising international and local companies (both listed and unlisted) on a wide range of cross-border corporate transactions in Asia. Originally a corporate restructuring lawyer, Dayne broadened his practice with varied professional experience from his previous stints in-house with a multinational company and in private practice with an international law firm and a local law firm where he co-headed its corporate finance practice. His strengths lie in his commercial acumen and strong connectivity with clients. He has advised on a number of mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, joint ventures, disposals, initial public offerings, debt financing and listing compliance and governance matters. · Corporate / M&A

Deborah Wong

Deborah Wong is a partner in the banking and finance practice. She acts for and advises financial institutions and borrowers on a range of domestic and cross-border transactions, including relating to real estate financing, acquisition financing and project financing. · Banking & Finance

Genevieve Pang

Genevieve’s area of practice is financial services regulation. She advises financial institutions on the broad spectrum of Singapore financial regulatory rules and regulations and supports clients in securing the requisite approvals, authorisations or exemptions as well as ongoing compliance issues. She also advises generally on anti-money laundering/countering the financing of terrorism and data privacy matters. Prior to joining the Firm, she was a Deputy Public Prosecutor and State Counsel at the Attorney-General’s Chambers of Singapore where she oversaw complex white collar investigations and prosecutions, and worked closely with law enforcement agencies such as the Commercial Affairs Department and the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau. She also trained in commercial and criminal litigation in private practice where she represented clients in commercial disputes, advised clients on white collar investigations and conducted their defence in criminal proceedings. · Financial Services Regulation

Gwendolyn Gn

Gwendolyn Gn’s principal areas of practice are corporate finance and regional mergers & acquisitions. She has extensive experience in domestic IPOs (SGX Mainboard and Catalist) and cross-border and dual listings including NASDAQ, ASX and HKEx, as well as debt/bond listings for local and international corporations. Gwendolyn is also active in acting for both listed and other corporations in regional mergers & acquisitions, takeovers and RTOs. She also regularly advises listed clients and financial institutions on corporate governance, regulatory and corporate compliance issues. Gwendolyn currently serves as an Independent Director of various SGX listed companies as well as Company Secretary to various SGX listed companies and Singapore corporations. · Corporate / M&A

Hao Zhi Quek

Hao Zhi practices in the areas of corporate and corporate finance, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions. He has experience in a broad range of transactions, including public takeovers, private acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity and venture capital transactions. His other areas of practice include general corporate law, corporate restructurings and employment matters. · Corporate / M&A

Hyrum Li

Hyrum specialises in investment funds, with a focus on real estate investment trust transactions, including mergers, acquisitions/divestments, initial public offerings, debt financing and change of trustee. He also provides regulatory advice on securities, funds, capital market intermediaries, payments services and moneylending activities, including capital markets services licensing requirements, securities offering requirements and token offerings, and is also involved in a variety of general corporate matters, such as sale and purchase agreements and investment agreements. Hyrum also has experience in financing transactions, including bilateral and syndicated loans, real estate development financing and acquisition financing. · Investment Funds

Ian Chew

Ian is a Singapore-qualified lawyer who counts on his extensive experience accumulated within the fund management industry to advice on the establishment and structuring of private funds across the broad spectrum of various investment strategies, including but not limited to private equity, private credit, real estate and infrastructure. He has also advised institutional investors on their investments into such funds. At the same time, he provides guidance to external asset managers and multi-family offices on the required regulatory licences/issues in their conduct of financial activities in Singapore. On the private wealth front, Ian has serviced high net worth individuals and families to cover the broad spectrum of their wealth management needs, such as the establishment of trusts, family offices and charters. · Investment Funds

Jamal Siddique

Jamal Siddique is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution department, with experience in litigation, international arbitration, and cross-border insolvency. His practice has a particular focus on fraud, banking-related disputes, and international trade disputes. Jamal has also acted in matters concerning the Mental Capacity Act and was a volunteer lawyer for the NUS In-Person Deputyship Programme, providing pro-bono assistance on MCA applications. He regularly appears both as lead and assisting counsel at all levels of the Courts. Jamal graduated with First Class Honours from University College London in 2013. He was appointed Young Amicus Curiae by the Supreme Court for 2 years, in 2018 and 2019. Jamal was the recipient of the Singapore Academy of Law Overseas Attachment, and was attached to leading barristers at Fountain Court Chambers in 2020. · Litigation

Jevon Louis

Combining technical expertise with legal acumen, Jevon helps businesses navigate the complex intersection of innovation, intellectual property, and technology law. Armed with both a technical foundation in mechanical engineering and legal expertise as a registered Singapore Patent Attorney and Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore, Jevon advises a diverse portfolio of clients from innovative startups to multinational corporations, on both contentious and non-contentious IP, technology, and data privacy matters. Jevon’s dispute resolution practice spans both litigation before the Singapore courts as well as alternative dispute resolution proceedings, including mediation and arbitration. Jevon has acted for clients in IP and technology law disputes across various industries, including disputes relating to blockchain and crypto-assets, and software and technology project implementation. On the non-contentious side, Jevon provides strategic advice on IP portfolio development and management, technology transactions and licensing, data privacy compliance for tech startups, and innovation strategy for emerging technologies. · Intellectual Property

John Tan

John has over a decade of experience advising on a wide range of real estate matters, including corporate real estate, real estate financing and private client real estate transactions. John advises on direct real estate acquisitions, disposals, sale and leaseback, commercial leasing and indirect real estate investment transactions across the commercial, industrial and residential property sectors in Singapore. He also has experience in niche property sub-sectors such as co-living, co-working, high-tech agricultural, hospitality, manufacturing, medical, aviation, and self-storage. John’s clients include multinationals, real estate investment funds, property developers and construction companies, collective sale committees, family offices and ultra-high net worth individuals. John also advises banks and financial institutions, corporates and high net-worth individuals, on both the lender and the borrower side, in secured real estate financing transactions including land and construction loans and other mortgage-backed facilities. John is frequently invited to contribute his views in the media and leading legal publications. He was also a real estate practice Course Facilitator for the Singapore Institute of Legal Education Part B of the Singapore Bar Examinations for around 8 years. John was recognised by the Singapore Business Review as one of the top 20 most influential lawyers under the age of 40 in 2018. · Real Estate

Joseph Chun

Dr Joseph Chun is an environmental lawyer. He leads the Firm’s Environmental, Social and Governance practice and is concurrently an adjunct associate professor and a member of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL) at the Faculty of Law in the National University of Singapore (NUS), where he teaches environmental law. He has written widely on environmental law and ESG, and is the lead author of Singapore’s only environmental law textbook. Joseph volunteers as a member of the Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity Association’s (SVCA) ESG and Impact Committee, member of the Global Alliance of Impact Lawyers (GAIL), the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) World Commission on Environmental Law, and the Mandai Wildlife Group’s Animal Welfare and Ethics Committee. He also regularly works with green civil society groups on advocacy projects and reports. · Environmental

Jun De Soong

Soong Jun De specialises in commercial dispute resolution, with a particular focus in shipping and commodities / trade disputes. He regularly advises on disputes involving shipbuilding, ship sale and purchase, ship management, charterparties and cargo loss and damage, as well as demurrage or despatch and cargo off-specification claims. · International Arbitration

Kai Zee Liew

Liew Kai Zee has over 30 years of experience advising financial institutions and major corporates on a broad range of domestic and international financing, securitisation and debt restructuring. He has extensive experience in advising on syndicated lending, structured finance, leveraged buyouts and acquisition finance, structured commodity and trade finance, Islamic finance, ESG finance, project finance, property development finance, vessel finance, REIT financing, cross-border finance, sale of debts, debt programmes, rated and unrated commercial mortgage-backed securities and securitisation programmes. Kai Zee also advises financial institutions on regulatory and compliance matters. In addition, he has represented bank and non-bank creditors, companies, regulators and insolvency practitioners in various consensual and non-consensual debt restructurings and insolvency matters in Singapore and the region. With the knowledge and experience which he has accumulated over the past three decades in his area of practice, Kai Zee is also the legal trainer for several banks in Singapore and the region. · Banking & Finance

Kelvin Wong

Kelvin Wong specialises in local and cross-border financings. He is experienced in advising on various banking and financial transactions including secured and unsecured lending, acquisition financing, property financing, syndicated and bilateral lending and interbank borrowings. He has represented local and international banks, financial institutions, real estate investment trusts, small and medium sized enterprises and multinational corporations in various financing transactions. · Banking & Finance

Kenneth Szeto

Kenneth Szeto has close to two decades of legal practice experience focussing in the areas of corporate real estate, real estate financing and private client real estate. Kenneth works on a broad range of corporate real estate deals across the commercial, industrial and residential property sectors in Singapore, and advises in acquisitions, disposals, sale and lease back transactions, real estate financing, collective sales and purchases of land sites, commercial leasing, property developments and indirect property investment transactions including joint ventures, acquisitions and disposals of real estate holding entities. Kenneth has been a key engagement partner of the Self Storage Association Asia since its establishment in 2014. His clients include many leading storage storage operators, vendors and investors, and he has advised on many recent significant self storage-related transactions in Singapore, including portfolio acquisitions and disposals, financing, as well as direct acquisitions and disposals. · Real Estate

Kit Fei Wong

Wong Kit Fei practises in the areas of corporate and corporate finance, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, including public takeovers, private acquisitions and joint ventures. · Corporate / M&A

Lee Ping

Lee Ping’s practice encompasses a diverse range of litigation and arbitration work including employment, insolvency, shareholders’ and other contractual and tortious disputes. Lee Ping has represented and advised multinational corporations, local and foreign listed companies, insolvency practitioners, funds, fund administrator and investors, company directors and numerous high net-worth individuals. In respect of employment, Lee Ping has advised clients on the full spectrum of contentious employment disputes, including retrenchment exercises, complaints to Tripartite Alliance for Dispute Management (TAFEP), disputes at the Tripartite Alliance for Dispute Management (TADM) and Employment Claims Tribunal (ECT), investigations by Ministry of Manpower (MOM), disciplinary proceedings, terminations and enforcement of restrictive covenants. · Litigation

Linh Trang Hoang

Hoang Linh Trang is a Partner in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution team. Her main areas of practice include cross-border restructuring & insolvency, and banking & commercial disputes. She regularly advises and represents institutional lenders, insolvency professionals, as well as corporate clients in commercial matters. · Litigation

Luisa Lim

Luisa Lim’s practice areas include corporate and corporate finance, with a focus on equity capital markets, mergers and acquisitions and regulatory compliance work. She has acted for listed companies on initial public offerings, corporate restructuring, fund-raising exercises, reverse take-overs, de-listings and listing compliance and corporate governance matters. She also advises clients on a range of commercial transactions, including acquisitions, private equity investments and joint ventures. · Corporate / M&A

Mae Shaan Teo

Teo Mae Shaan’s area of practice comprises a broad range of corporate matters, with a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions, corporate, employment and regulatory compliance. She advises multi-national corporations and private companies on their mergers and acquisitions and investments as well as on their general corporate matters such as advising on their commercial and operations related agreements, licence applications. Her particular focus is in the healthcare sector where she has assisted clients in the due diligence, negotiations and acquisitions of healthcare institutions and advising on various regulatory and compliance matters. Mae Shaan’s expertise in employment includes drafting and advising clients on employment contracts, employee share and incentive schemes, employment handbooks, organisational restructuring issues, redundancy exercises and termination of employees, as well as advising on restrictive covenants and fiduciary duties. Mae Shaan also acts for companies and financial institutions on initial public offerings, secondary offerings and debt issuances. Her expertise includes advising companies listed on the SGX-ST on compliance with post-listing requirements of the SGX-ST and her experience includes having advised on performance share plans/share option schemes, dividend reinvestment schemes, share buyback mandates, share issue mandates and other corporate transactions. Prior to joining the Firm as a Partner, Mae Shaan previously worked in a leading local law firm in Singapore and a leading international law firm in both Singapore and in London where she has advised on a number of equity capital markets, debt capital markets, mergers and acquisitions and other corporate and commercial transactions. · Corporate / M&A

Marilyn See

Marilyn See is a debt capital markets and banking lawyer with a strong focus on debt capital markets, having advised arrangers and issuers on a broad range of DCM transactions including standalone issues and offerings, MTN, CD and debt issuance programmes, private placements and securitisation (including both rated and unrated mortgaged-backed or receivables backed securities) involving a range of asset classes including consumer loans, commercial property, residential mortgages and residential property. She previously spent close to two years on secondment with the DCM team of a magic circle firm in Tokyo. She also focuses on corporate banking, having advised financial institutions and borrowers on a wide variety of banking transactions including domestic and cross border syndicated lending, acquisition finance (including proposed takeovers of Singapore listed companies), trade and project finance, property development finance, asset and asset-backed finance. · Debt Capital Markets

May Loo

May specialises in a broad range of real estate work and has advised extensively on all types of commercial, industrial and residential property transactions including direct and indirect acquisitions and disposals of commercial and industrial buildings, including sale and leasebacks, built-to-suit developments, and commercial and industrial leasing. Her practice also includes advising on property-related aspects of mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other corporate transactions. Her clients include real estate investment trusts (both managers and trustees), multinational corporations, banks and other financial institutions, property owners and tenants of industrial and commercial buildings. · Real Estate

Mei Choo Chew

Chew Mei Choo has more than 40 years of experience in corporate real estate transactions. She has advised on all types of commercial, industrial and residential property transactions including securitisation and real estate investment trusts. Her clients include listed companies, both offshore and local multinational corporations, banks and other financial institutions, real estate investment trusts and other types of landlords and tenants. Her practice also includes advising on property development and finance and the property-related aspects of mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other corporate transactions. She has also served in various sub-committees of the Law Society of Singapore including the Conveyancing Practice Committee and has organised and co-ordinated seminars on behalf of the Law Society. · Real Estate

Melissa Huang

Melissa Huang is a debt capital markets lawyer who regularly advises issuers, arrangers/dealers and trustees/agents on a wide range of debt capital market transactions including MTN programmes, standalone bond issuances and liability management exercises. She also has substantial experience advising corporate and sovereign issuers, managers and underwriters on the listing of foreign debt securities on the SGX and on the issuance of qualifying debt securities. · Debt Capital Markets

Moses Lin

Moses Lin is Head of Shipping and Commodities at the firm. He specialises in commercial dispute resolution as well as restructuring and insolvency, with particular experience in the shipping and commodities/trade sectors. He advises clients on risk mitigation, commercial litigation and arbitration, and has acted as counsel in the State Courts, the High Court and the Court of Appeal in Singapore. He also regularly appears as lead counsel in international arbitrations conducted under the auspices of the SIAC, SCMA, GAFTA, FOSFA, ICC, and LMAA, among others. His experience extends to contractual and tortious disputes, corporate insolvency, bankruptcy, directors’ duties, shareholder disputes, defamation, employment disputes, as well as foreign and domestic judgment/ award enforcement actions. Whilst his expertise covers a wide spectrum of industry sectors, Moses leads the firm’s shipping and commodities practice. He regularly advises on disputes involving shipbuilding, ship sale and purchase, ship management, charterparties and cargo loss and damage, as well as demurrage or despatch and cargo off-specification claims. In addition, Moses has also been involved in major restructuring and insolvency matters, several of them involving large-scale fraudulent activity. On the transactional front, he advises on ship sale and purchase agreements as well as ship building contracts. Moses is an Accredited Mediator with the Singapore Mediation Centre (SMC) and an Adjudicator for the SMC Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Scheme. He is also on the Panel of Mediators in the Law Society Mediation Scheme, and a member of the Maritime Law Association of Singapore. He was also previously appointed as an independent director of a company listed on the Singapore Exchange. · Litigation

Mr Gang Wong

Wong Gang specialises in corporate finance, equity capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, listing compliance and governance, China practice, and general corporate advisory. His areas of practice include initial public offerings, secondary listings, cross-border dual listings, rights issues, issuance of securities and other instruments by companies from Singapore, China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Bermuda and other jurisdictions. He also advises on mergers and acquisitions, reverse take-overs, direct investments, joint ventures involving listed and private companies in Singapore, China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Bermuda and other jurisdictions. He is a member of the Ministry of Law’s Advisory Committee for the China-Ready Programme for Singapore’s Legal Industry. · Corporate / M&A

Pearlyn Xie

Pearlyn Xie is a partner in the Firm’s Corporate Practice, with a dual focus on equity capital markets (ECM) and mergers and acquisitions (M&A). She advises corporations, financial institutions, and investors across the full spectrum of corporate transactions, and is known for her ability to understand clients’ commercial needs and deliver practical, solutions-oriented advice to help them achieve successful outcomes. In her ECM practice, Pearlyn has advised on initial public offerings (IPOs), dual listings, and reverse takeovers. She has not only handled listings on the Singapore Exchange (SGX-ST) but also those on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange. Her experience also covers secondary listings, secondary fundraisings, and pre-IPO investments. In M&A, Pearlyn represents both public and private companies in domestic and cross-border transactions, including public takeovers, privatisations, and strategic acquisitions. Alongside her transactional work, Pearlyn also regularly advises clients on general corporate matters and has experience in private credit transactions, including mezzanine financing. · Corporate / M&A

Perry Yuen

Perry Yuen’s area of practice covers corporate finance, namely, mergers and acquisitions (both public and private companies, and in Singapore and the region) and equity capital markets, privatisations, corporate restructurings and rescues, and advising on securities regulations. Through the course of his work, Perry has dealt with Singapore regulators extensively, and he is particularly adept at resolving legally and commercially challenging and complex transactions. · Corporate / M&A

Ruizi Lin

Ruizi’s practice encompasses a diverse range of litigation, arbitration and disputes advisory work – including cryptocurrency / Web3 related disputes, investment and shareholder disputes and restructuring and insolvency. He has extensive experience and commercial familiarity with the abovementioned areas. He also has substantive experience in international trade disputes and REIT-related disputes. Ruizi has advised and acted for multinational corporations, insolvency professionals, institutional and corporate creditors, investors and founders, company directors and shareholders, and high net-worth individuals (in particular several clients from the PRC). He has appeared in several high-profile matters at all levels of the Supreme Court of Singapore and various international commercial arbitrations. · Litigation

Sally Lee

Sally practises in the areas of corporate and corporate finance, specialising in mergers and acquisitions. She regularly advises on buy-side and sell-side mandates across jurisdictions in Asia and has significant experience in healthcare, technology and consumer-related businesses. Her practice spans private equity and venture capital investments and exits, strategic transactions, joint ventures, early-stage financing, public takeovers and delistings. Sally is part of the working group that contributes to Singapore’s Venture Capital Investment Model Agreements (VIMA) initiative. · Corporate / M&A

Sarjit Singh Gill, SC

Sarjit Singh Gill, S.C. has more than 40 years of experience in litigation and international arbitration. He has a special focus on corporate and commercial disputes, and in particular banking and finance disputes; international trade disputes, and fraud. He has also been involved in numerous significant restructuring and insolvency matters, both domestic and cross-border. Sarjit frequently acts for banks, financial institutions, major international and domestic corporations, and insolvency practitioners (liquidators, judicial managers, and administrators). Sarjit has an active international arbitration practice, both as arbitrator and counsel. He has represented clients in a significant number of complex arbitrations, both in Singapore and abroad. Sarjit also heads the firm’s India Desk and frequently acts for Indian clients in both litigation and arbitration matters. Sarjit is a director of Seatrium Limited, and concurrently a member of its Audit and Risk Committee. He served on the board of the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore, and the Central Provident Fund from 2012 to 2018, and was a non-executive director of Heliconia Capital Management Pte Ltd from 2021 to 2025. He is a member of the Life Imprisonment Review Board, The President's Pleasure Review Board, Long Imprisonment Review Board and MAS Appeal Advisory Panel. He has also been appointed to serve as a member of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) Panel of Arbitrators and has served as a member of the Singapore International Mediation Centre Specialist Mediator Panel (Singapore) from 2020 to 2022. · International Arbitration

Serene Yeo

Serene practices in the areas of corporate and corporate finance work, with particular experience in domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity investments and corporate restructuring matters. She advises a range of clients, from small-to-medium (SME) business owners to multi-national conglomerates (both listed and private) as well as venture capital and private equity funds. · Corporate / M&A

Shaun Woo

Shaun Woo is a partner with Shook Lin & Bok’s Banking & Finance practice. He regularly advises local and international financial institutions, corporates, and sponsors on a wide range of financing transactions, including acquisition, real estate, development, and working capital financing. His work spans both bilateral and syndicated structures and frequently involves cross-border elements across the Asia-Pacific region. · Banking & Finance

Sherman Ho

Sherman’s areas of focus include commercial litigation, banking and finance litigation, arbitration, insolvency and restructuring matters. His other areas of practice include employment related matters and criminal litigation. Sherman acts for local and foreign banks, individuals, liquidators and judicial managers and has represented them at all levels of the Courts in Singapore as well as in arbitrations. His criminal practice includes representing accused persons and entities in the State Courts and the High Court who face charges under, amongst others, the Penal Code, the Misuse of Drugs Act, the Prevention of Corruption Act and the Protection from Harassment Act. Sherman was the Co Vice-Chairperson of the Law Society Social & Welfare committee from 2017 to 2019 and he regularly volunteers with the Law Society’s Criminal Legal Aid Scheme. · Litigation

Shi Ying Chua

Shi Ying’s practice areas include corporate and corporate finance, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions. She has worked with some of the largest corporations in Singapore (listed and unlisted), as well as leading international groups on domestic matters and cross-border transactions. · Corporate / M&A

Shirin Swah

Shirin Swah specialises in Litigation & Dispute Resolution, International Arbitration and Construction & Projects. Shirin’s practice encompasses a diverse range of litigation and arbitration work with a focus on employment, insolvency, building & construction, and commercial & contractual disputes. She has also advised and acted in several construction adjudication proceedings commenced under the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act. Shirin has acted for major local banks and financial institutions, multinational corporations, local construction companies and insolvency practitioners. · Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Stanley Lim

Stanley Lim is Head of the Banking and Finance Practice at Shook Lin & Bok. He is Singapore and English law qualified and has over 20 years of extensive experience acting for financial institutions and major corporates in a wide and broad range of transactions such as local and international loan (syndicated, club and bilateral) and other debt related transactions including property development financing, collective sale financing, construction financing, structured finance, leveraged buy-outs and acquisition finance, structured commodity and trade finance, Islamic finance, ESG finance, project finance, vessel finance, REIT financing, funded sub-participations, assets-backed finance, corporate and debt restructuring and cross-border finance transactions. Stanley has led numerous transactions with cross-border aspects in the region, including Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Japan, Hong Kong SAR and China. Stanley has also acted for banks and sponsors as Singapore counsel in project finance transactions in various sectors and in Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) projects in Singapore and other regions. · Banking & Finance

Ted Teo

Ted advises on a broad range of corporate matters, with a focus on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and regulatory compliance. He supports both listed and private companies on their ongoing commercial needs, including contract negotiations, regulatory obligations, and employment issues. Ted also works closely with clients across a variety of sectors, with a growing practice in the food and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industries. · Corporate / M&A

Walter Yeo

Walter’s practice includes banking and finance-related litigation, restructuring and insolvency, and international arbitration. He regularly advises and acts for a diverse range of financial institutions, banks, and lenders in contentious corporate as well as personal insolvency matters. Walter also specializes in hire purchase, auto-finance and healthcare related disputes. His experience includes acting for industry leaders, start-ups, and various healthcare providers in these spaces. As a Legal Specialist Staff Officer with the Singapore Armed Forces, Walter is familiar with military, international humanitarian, and operations laws. He has also advised military personnel in disciplinary matters. Walter is also an Accredited Mediator with the Singapore Mediation Centre and is currently serving as an appointed Mediator with Singapore’s Ministry of Law Community Mediation Centre. Walter previously taught mediation at Singapore Polytechnic. Walter frequently volunteers with Justice Without Borders as well as various initiatives under Pro Bono SG. He is currently a member of Singapore’s Ministry of Defence Pro Bono Panel. Prior to practice, Walter co-founded an education start-up and oversaw its overseas expansion, working primarily in Vietnam and China. · Banking & Finance

Wei Shyan Tan

Tan Wei Shyan focuses on corporate finance and securities transactions, including initial public offerings (IPOs), dual/secondary listings, strategic and pre-IPO investments, corporate restructuring, privatisation and delisting, takeovers, fund-raising exercises and securities regulation compliance by public listed companies. He is also active in commercial transactions covering various areas of corporate practice, including joint ventures, startup fund-raising as well as acquisitions and disposals of corporate assets involving public and private companies. · Corporate / M&A

Woon Hum Tan

Tan Woon Hum is widely regarded as one of the rare senior market leaders specialising in investment funds, REITs and trusts, especially VCCs and family offices. He heads a team of specialist lawyers in the Asset & Wealth Management practice. Investment Funds Woon Hum advises on fund formation, (including hedge funds, private equity funds, venture capital funds, real estate funds and single-family funds) using Singapore funds (including VCC) and offshore funds structures (eg. Cayman LP funds, Cayman SPCs and Luxembourg funds). He is extremely well versed with independent asset managers, external asset managers, multi-family offices and single-family offices, and has an extremely strong track record in securing the relevant regulatory licences and exemptions. His excellent and long-term professional relationship with the local regulators, authorities and major industry players add credence to his practice. He has advised on and helped clients launched more than 170 VCCs. Private Client & Wealth Management He has extensive experience in advising private clients (including ultra-high net worth individuals and single-family offices) and trustees on the establishment of private trusts, family offices, single-family funds, Sections 13O and 13U (formerly 13R and 13X) structures and drafting trust documents, fund documents, global investor programme documents and family charters. Corporate Real Estate & REITs He advises on structures for complex real estate investments, joint ventures and tender projects. His clients include sovereign wealth funds, corporates and property funds. He has extensive experience in advising on the establishment and initial public offering (IPO) of REITs. He has an in-depth knowledge of the REITs regulations and industry and has been involved in numerous S-REIT IPOs, post-IPO acquisitions, equity fund raising exercises, debt financing and securitisation locally and regionally since the S-REIT infancy stage, including mergers of REITs. · Investment Funds

Xiaofei Guo

Guo Xiaofei heads the Firm’s China Practice and she specialises in Capital Market, M&A and foreign direct investment (FDI) in China. Since joining the Firm in 2009, she has been involved in a number of China-related IPOs, private and public takeovers in Singapore, FDIs in PRC and cross-border investments in Asia. Xiaofei is based in Singapore but travels regularly between Singapore and China advising clients on a wide range of matters, including Chinese clients’ overseas investments, financing and IPO structures, as well as Singapore and foreign clients’ investments, especially in the mining and energy, TMT, advertising, commercial and residential property, project and retail industries in China. Prior to joining Shook Lin & Bok, Xiaofei worked on China-related M&A, FDI and IPO transactions in another Singapore law firm. · Corporate / M&A

Yee Shing Poh

Yee Shing’s practice is in arbitration, insolvency, and litigation matters, with a focus on commercial disputes, trade finance disputes, and banking-related disputes. Yee Shing has advised and represented major banking and financial institutions in court and arbitration proceedings. · Arbitration

Yeow Khoon Ng

Ng Yeow Khoon specialises in banking & finance-related litigation, insolvency and restructuring and general commercial litigation. He regularly advises and has acted for many of the major local and foreign banks and financial institutions in Singapore in their banking disputes and insolvency matters. Yeow Khoon’s area of practice also includes debt restructuring, schemes of arrangement, judicial management and liquidation (both voluntary and compulsory). · Litigation

Ying Ming Ho

Ho Ying Ming practises in the areas of corporate and corporate finance, and he has extensive experience in domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, complex corporate restructuring and reorganisations, as well as private equity investments. He has advised global private equity and venture capital firms, financial institutions, emerging growth companies, sovereign wealth funds and multinational corporates in an extensive range of corporate transactions, including public takeovers, private acquisitions and joint ventures. · Corporate / M&A

Ying Yi Siow

Ying Yi advises on a range of corporate and corporate finance matters, with particular focus on mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity investments, regulatory compliance and general corporate transactions. Ying Yi graduated with a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Commerce from The University of Western Australia, where she was a recipient of the St Catherine’s College Scholarship and the UWA Undergraduate Learning & Teaching Research Intern Scholarship. · Corporate / M&A

Yu Mei Lin

Lin Yu Mei’s practice areas include corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate transactions. She has acted for both listed and private companies on a range of transactions including mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures. She also advises listed companies on cross-border listings, fund-raising exercises, corporate governance, as well as regulatory and corporate compliance matters. · Corporate / M&A

Zhi Ming Tan

Tan Zhi Ming specialises in local and international banking and finance. He is experienced in acting for financial institutions and corporate borrowers, with especial proficiency in property development finance, acquisition finance, project finance, trade finance and assets-backed finance. Many of his transactions have involved cross-broader arrangements with considerable dealings with assets based in Indonesia and Malaysia. He also has extensive experience in handling security documentation such as mortgages, debentures, charges, assignments, guarantees, subordination deeds and security sharing deeds. · Banking & Finance