Qualifications |
Director
CORPORATE AND FINANCE
About Mei Yen
Mei Yen’s corporate insolvency and restructuring practice spans a decade in Skrine, Kuala Lumpur; Richards Butler, London; and now, Drew & Napier, Singapore. Her particular expertise is in managing cross-border disputes, dealing on a regular basis with legal and financial advisers from other jurisdictions on her clients’ behalf.
Mei Yen has advised Ernst & Young, the Judicial Managers of Neo Investments with the aim of realizing and recovering the assets of the company which are spread over Malaysia, Thailand and which includes a public-listed company in Singapore. A Corporate Governance Review was also conducted into Neo Investments’ role in the reverse takeover of S$20m worth of assets. She also acts for the liquidators of IPACS Computer Services, a SingTel investee company, in a creditors’ voluntary liquidation. As the subsidiaries and the business of the company are mainly concentrated in China, Mei Yen is working closely with Ernst and Young and lawyers in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and China with a view to securing a high recovery rate for creditors.
Mei Yen’s expertise also includes corporate fraud and directors’ duties. She, together with Ernst & Young, advised a regional government in a highly confidential case involving alleged misuse of funds amounting to US$280m by the management of a government-linked company. Mei Yen also successfully defended an international oil & gas certification expert against allegations of fraud by KPPU, the Indonesian competition commission. This involved managing clients from Germany, the Middle East, Norway and Singapore and instructing solicitors in Indonesia.
Mei Yen has advised Ernst & Young, the Judicial Managers of Neo Investments with the aim of realizing and recovering the assets of the company which are spread over Malaysia, Thailand and which includes a public-listed company in Singapore. A Corporate Governance Review was also conducted into Neo Investments’ role in the reverse takeover of S$20m worth of assets. She also acts for the liquidators of IPACS Computer Services, a SingTel investee company, in a creditors’ voluntary liquidation. As the subsidiaries and the business of the company are mainly concentrated in China, Mei Yen is working closely with Ernst and Young and lawyers in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and China with a view to securing a high recovery rate for creditors.
Mei Yen’s expertise also includes corporate fraud and directors’ duties. She, together with Ernst & Young, advised a regional government in a highly confidential case involving alleged misuse of funds amounting to US$280m by the management of a government-linked company. Mei Yen also successfully defended an international oil & gas certification expert against allegations of fraud by KPPU, the Indonesian competition commission. This involved managing clients from Germany, the Middle East, Norway and Singapore and instructing solicitors in Indonesia.
Experience
- Acted for the liquidators of the subsidiaries of Goodwood Park Hotel in the group’s S$1.5 billion restructuring and capital reduction exercise.
- Acted for the seller in the sale & purchase of a S$480 million business in an arbitral claim for breaches of warranties.
- Defended a major European bank against a US$250 million claim of fraud, negligence, misrepresentation, vicarious liability, and breaches of directors’ duties as part of an international team of barristers led by QCs, English solicitors and lawyers from The Bahamas.
- Acted in Singapore for US-based institutional investors OCM Opportunities Fund II, LP in a US$150 million action for conspiracy to defraud in which a worldwide Mareva injunction was successfully obtained and the assets in Singapore realized to satisfy the judgment
- Defended directors of the listed Malaysian Apollo Group, involving allegations of breaches of fiduciary duties, diversion of businesses and misappropriation of company funds in a global shareholders’ dispute involving the control of US$50 million worth of assets and businesses.
Appointments / Memberships
- Member of The Honourable Society of The Middle Temple (UK)
- Member of the General Council of England & Wales
- Member of the Law Society of Singapore
- Member of the Singapore Academy of Law