Education:

LL. B. (Hons) (National University of Singapore)

Career:

1994 – Admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor to the Supreme Court of Singapore

Current role – Joint Managing Partner, TSMP Law Corporation

Civil Society Organisations

2022 to present – Founding Chairman of SG Her Empowerment Limited (SHE), a civil society organisation with Institution of Public Character status for women’s empowerment in Singapore

2014 to 2023 – Director, Community Foundation of Singapore

Previous

– Director, The Smile Mission Limited, a registered Singapore charity providing cleft operations to the underprivileged in the region

– Board of Governors, Dover Park Hospice, Singapore

Others

2019 to present – Independent Director and Chairperson (2021) of ESR REIT (listed on the Mainboard of Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited (SGX-ST))

2025 – Chair, Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) sub-committee reviewing the Code of Corporate Governance

2025 – Appointed to the Corporate Governance Advisory Committee of the MAS to review the Code of Corporate Governance

2024 – Appointed by the Ministry of Law, Singapore, to the Steering Committee for the Online Safety (Relief and Accountability) Act

2019 to 2024 – Independent Non-Executive Director and Chairwoman of the Audit Committee, ARA US Hospitality Trust (listed on the Main Board of the SGX-ST)

2018 to 2024 – Independent Non-Executive Director, Singapore Medical Group Limited, listed on the SGX-ST (Catalist)

2017 – Appointed by MAS to the Corporate Governance Council to review the Code of Corporate Governance

2016 – Appointed Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Directors

2011 to present – Principal Examiner in Ethics and Professional Responsibility for the Foreign Practitioner Examinations of the Singapore Institute of Legal Education

2009 to 2011 – Member of the Council of the Law Society of Singapore

2008 – Appointed to the Working Group of the Steering Committee for Review of the Companies Act under the Ministry of Finance

Recognition

• Elite Practitioner (Capital markets, Corporate and M&A), Asialaw 2025
• Distinguished Practitioner (Capital markets, Corporate and M&A), Asialaw Leading Lawyers 2019–2024
• Recommended Lawyer (Corporate/M&A), Chambers Global and Asia-Pacific 2019–2025
• Leaders in their Field (Corporate/M&A), Chambers Global and Asia-Pacific 2018
• Highly Regarded (M&A), IFLR1000 2018–2024
• Women Leaders, IFLR1000 2021–2024
• Leading Individual (Corporate and M&A), The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2017–2025
• Thought Leader – WWL M&A and Governance 2024–2025
• Global Leader – WWL M&A and Governance (M&A) 2020–2022
• National Leader – WWL Southeast Asia (M&A) 2021–2022