Singapore
I am a Singaporean Chinese who decided to study in the UK after travelling around Europe during my gap year and thoroughly enjoying the experience. One of my hobbies is travelling, and I love meeting people from different nationalities and backgrounds. This passion for connecting with others influenced my early work experiences in customer service, guest relations, and promoting products, which I believe are transferable skills that helped prepare me for a profession in law. I enjoy advocacy and have participated in internal and inter-varsity mooting, winning a land law moot on easements. I have also mentored and judged students in mooting competitions, including guiding an A-level student as her partner in a pro bono project. During my time at university, I served on the committee of the Devon & Exeter Medico-Legal Association (DEMLA), organising events such as a debate on medical law and a talk by a leading personal injury barrister on the landmark decision in Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board [2015]. After completing my studies in the UK, I returned to Singapore to build my legal career. I began as a fee-earning Paralegal at multinational law firm Clifford Chance, before transitioning into an in-house role as an Assistant Manager (Legal) at global food and beverage company Suntory F&B International Group. I then joined international offshore law firm Walkers as a fee-earning Paralegal, returning to Clifford Chance to support the Global Financial Markets team before being promoted to Legal Project Manager. I am now continuing my journey as an Associate (Legal) at Dymon Asia Capital, a leading Asia-focused alternative investment management firm. Outside of work, I enjoy dining, cooking, travelling, and exploring art, history, and psychology. My hobbies also include photography, vlogging, and drone flying- I currently own four pet robots! I enjoy solving riddles, listening to audiobooks and podcasts, and am an avid fan of Formula 1 (inspired by Formula 1: Drive to Survive). I hope to play tennis someday, though for now, I am content with watching it and cheering from the sidelines.
-Working in collaboration with the File Partner and the Managing Associate, utilising Legal Support Secretaries and other available Business Services resources as appropriate. -Taking responsibility for supporting the delivery of the full matter lifecycle, from pricing and inception through to the completion of post-closing activities, for a portfolio of significant matters (or work streams within those matters), to ensure that they are delivered in accordance with the client's needs, efficiently, on budget and within timeframe. -Contributing to the development of legal project management tools and best practices at the Firm and providing training in project management techniques and best practices to lawyers.
-Proof-reading / amending / drafting transaction documents and correspondences. -Assisting with legal review exercises including distribution of documents for review / review of documents / preparation of legal review report. -General legal and commercial research and preparing reports /analysis using various sources. -Assisting with the signing and completion process. -Assisting with due diligence and verification exercises. -Liaising with internal and external clients. -Production of transaction bibles in both hard copy and CD's, distribution of transaction documents and collating know-how information. -Organising and preparing legal files. -Ad-hoc legal and non-legal tasks as requested by fee-earners in the Group including photocopying, copy checking, by hand deliveries, boxing and archiving. -Preparing and interpret legal documents for review, approval, and use by lawyers. -Selecting, compiling and using technical information from various reference sources. -Preparing written reports and correspondence. -Drafting documents. -Organising and analysing information. -Checking legal forms and documents for accuracy.
-Supporting the lawyers and Partners of the Investment Funds team in providing legal services for clients of the Firm. Responsibilities include: -Drafting, proofreading and reviewing all relevant supporting documents (Hedge Funds: draft fee estimate, incorporate various entities, draft launch resolutions, board resolutions and SIBL declaration form (if applicable). Private Equity Funds: draft fee estimate, incorporate GP entities and assist with the preparation of partnership formation documents, draft launch resolutions, board resolutions, SIBL declaration form (if applicable), section 10 statement and legal opinion. IPOs: prepare fee estimate, review corporate documents of issuer and any BVI/Cayman subsidiary, draft legal opinions, director's certificates (as required), consent letter, conduct court search (or company search if necessary), obtain certificate of good standing (if applicable), prepare due diligence report, draft resolutions, application for shares, share transfer form, consent to act, resignation letter and short form opinion). -Providing legal support to the teams, with particular focus on private equity, hedge funds, private equity funds, IPOs, corporate transactions and general corporate matters. -Managing compliance process and proactively liaise with registered office service providers and the Compliance team from time to time to ensure due diligence on the clients have been received in a timely manner after engagement. -Liaising with clients in relation to any general enquiries if instructed by the supervising lawyer. -Liaising with registered office service providers on requests for certified true copies/ registered office certificates.
To ensure smooth operations and management of the overall business from the legal and compliance perspectives which include professional guidance to prevent financial and legal risks to protect the company’s business interests and assets, bearing in mind the company’s mission, values and vision. -Review, draft and/or advise on the necessity of all agreements and other legal documents that the company executed (and liaise with external legal advisers if necessary) to enable the company to administer its business activities in accordance with their intentions and objectives to support and add value to business growth and sustainability. -Timely respond to internal questions with respect to contractual and legal matters so that the company may make legally competent decisions and responses to business opportunities as they arise. -Assist the Compliance Officer in establishing, updating and holding study sessions on various compliance guidelines and all related documents (reporting formats, etc) in line with any latest development of laws to raise awareness of, and prevent, compliance risks arising from the company’s business activities. -Timely arrange counter-measures to defend against the rising number of brand imitations in the Asia-Pacific region to prevent brand dilution and to protect the brand image and profits of the company. -Manage and maintain the registration and licensing rights of the company’s intellectual property to protect the company’s intangible assets from third party infringements and hence ensure that the company’s brands grow unhindered. -Reviewing the company's website and suggesting amendments to the website’s terms and conditions and privacy policy. -Assist the Directors in ad hoc tasks, such as corporate planning, budgeting, etc. -Completed and obtained certification in relation to “Applying IP Fundamentals in Business - Trade Mark, Copyright & Patent” in September 2019 at IP Academy Singapore.
Supporting the Capital Markets team (Equity & Debt) in transactional work. Duties include: -Proof-reading/ amending/ drafting (including Prospectus)/consolidating comments/ translating documents; -Assisting with review of documents/ preparation of legal review report; -Assisting with the execution of documents; -Undertaking general legal and commercial research; -Summarising documents; -Meeting clients for Due Diligence, etc. I have worked with the other teams within the Singapore office: -Project Finance team on the collation of various agreements for financing of the largest suspension bridge in the world; financing for a large oil refinery; proofread of offshore wind farm deal documents. -Asset Finance team with compilation of originals & deliverables for the sale of a vessel; Due Diligence Report for 19 Aircraft MSNs for aircraft leasing JV; Bibling for financing of 1 Airbus; Closing for 2 MSNs for an Airline. -Derivatives/Technology team with drafting website index, extracting website and producing Bound Volume folder for a $900 billion cryptocurrency/technology matter related to a crypto-coin trading platform; SFC Investigation on the Company. -Banking and Finance team with bibling of executed documents for a financing deal for a Company which provided funding to private schools in Singapore and abroad. -Funds team with bibling of a fund and co-investment vehicle in LPA and consolidating originals. I have worked with other CC offices on their deals: -Beijing Corporate IPO team in attending Due Diligence sessions for a prospective IPO listing for an international Chinese Oil & Gas Company, and drafting Customer and Supplier Due Diligence Questionnaires and emails in Mandarin Chinese. -Hong Kong Corporate team in summarising unredacted/redacted contracts to be provided to buyer counsel in a highly sensitive merger of two key telecom players in Hong Kong. -Abu Dhabi Banking & Finance team with amending several swaps and derivatives agreement schedules.