Labour and employment
Jennifer has over two decades of proven, in-depth expertise as a corporate lawyer. She has worked on a range of complex corporate and commercial matters, including mergers and acquisitions (M&As), private equity fund-raising, franchising, real estate transactions and joint ventures.
Jennifer heads our Corporate Compliance and Employment Department which has teams specializing in various aspects of regulation and compliance in Singapore. The department’s key strengths include areas of law such as employment and immigration law (particularly in relation to business immigration matters), and general corporate compliance and licensing. In recent years, Jennifer has also helped spearhead the department’s expansion to cover regulatory matters in relation to the rapidly developing area of digital and data protection law.
Jennifer has acted as a trusted advisor to start-ups and SMEs, venture capital firms and multinational corporations in roles ranging from principal external counsel to local counsel for M&As and corporate governance-related projects. She has been the lead lawyer in the negotiation of company and business sales and purchases, and also has significant experience in transactions involving private equity fundraising.
She has lectured and tutored on the topics of joint ventures and private equity investments in the International Corporate Finance course conducted by the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore. She has also tutored Commercial Practice and M&As in the Post-Graduate Practical Law Course conducted by the Board of Legal Education in Singapore.
Prior to joining the firm, she was a partner with Deacons, an international law firm.
Advocate & Solicitor, Supreme Court of Singapore (1996)
