[Bundle] Developments in Corporate Law + Corporate Law (2nd Ed) Book

Professor Hans Tjio
CJ Koh Professor & Director, EW Barker Centre for Law & Business
Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore

Hans is the CJ Koh Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore and is the Director of the EW Barker Centre for Law and Business. He has an MA from Cambridge and an LLM from Harvard. He has taught at the Faculty of Law, NUS, since 1990, and was the Director for its Centre for Commercial Law Studies and Co-Director of the Centre for Banking and Finance Law. At NUS, he lectures or has lectured in company law, securities regulation, trusts and equity. He has published in international journals such as the Journal of Business Law, Law Quarterly Review, Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, Journal of Corporate Law Studies, the European Business Organization Law Review and the Capital Markets Law Journal. He has written and edited books on company law, securities regulation and trust law, and is a contributor to Palmer’s Company Law (Geoffrey Morse ed). 

He was previously seconded to the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Ministry of Law. He is presently serving on the Securities Industry Council and appointed Deputy Chairman of the Singapore Exchange Listing Advisory Committee. He is a consultant to TSMP Law Corporation and was a consultant with Linklaters Singapore and WongPartnership as well as a member of the Ministry of Finance’s Company Legislation and Regulatory Framework Committee. He has been a visiting professor at National Taiwan University (NTU), Auckland and Shanghai’s ECUPL and a visiting scholar at Stanford and Melbourne. In 2017 he gave public lectures at the law schools of Tsinghua and Zhejiang University. In 2018, he served as amicus curiae in the Singapore Court of Appeal and gave a public lecture at NTU. In 2019 he chaired the SIC hearing into Delong Holdings Limited. In January 2020, he delivered the 5th Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee Memorial Lecture at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences on “CIS, Crypto and Coins as “New” Collateral”. In December 2020 he spoke over Zoom at the University of Warsaw on “Properly Dealing with Share Buybacks”. In August 2022, he gave the CJ Koh Professorial lecture on “The Nature of Entities: Restructuring Business Trusts as Unregistered Companies”. He has been an expert witness in Singapore, the US and Indonesia and provided opinions on Singapore law for cases in France and Malaysia.

Professor Lee Pey Woan
Dean
Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University

Lee Pey Woan is Professor of Law at Singapore Management University. She graduated with an LL.B (First Class Honours) from King’s College, University of London and subsequently obtained the BCL from Oxford University. Pey Woan is currently Dean of the Yong Pung How School of Law. Prior to this appointment, Pey Woan was Vice Provost (Faculty Matters) of the University. In that capacity, she assisted the Provost on the planning and development of faculty and advises on faculty personnel policies generally. Pey Woan teaches Corporate Law and the Law of Torts but her research interests encompass company, private and commercial law. She has published widely in local as well as leading international journals including the Modern Law Review, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Law Quarterly Review, Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly as well as Journal of Business Law. She has also co‐authored text books on Contract Law, Tort Law and Company Law. Her works have been cited by the Singapore Court of Appeal, the Singapore High Court and the Canadian Supreme Court. Apart from academic activities, Pey Woan also serves the legal profession by periodically speaking at legal conferences. In 2016, she was appointed amicus curiae to the Singapore Court of Appeal in PH Hydraulics & Engineering Pte Ltd v Airtrust (Hong Kong) Ltd [2017] SGCA 26; [2017] 2 SLR 129. 

Associate Professor Pearlie Koh
Associate Professor of Law
Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University

Pearlie Koh is Associate Professor of Law with the School of Law, Singapore Management University. She was formerly an Associate Professor at the Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University. She graduated with an LL.B (Second Class Upper Honours) from the National University of Singapore and obtained her LL.M from the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is an Advocate and Solicitor of the Singapore Supreme Court. She teaches Law of Business Organisations and Corporate Law.

 Pearlie’s main areas of research are in corporate and commercial law. She has published in international peer-reviewed legal journals, including the Asian Journal of Comparative Law, the Cambridge Law Journal, the Journal of Corporate Law Studies, the Law Quarterly Review and the Modern Law Review. Her research has been referred to by the courts of Singapore, England and Wales, Hong Kong and Malaysia. She has also written a book on Company Law (in its 3rd edition), and co-authored or contributed to text books on Business Law, Contract Law and Company Law.

(Moderator)

Ms Lock Yin Mei

Managing Director

Venture Law LLC

Yin Mei's practice includes advising on capital raising, mergers & acquisitions, investment funds, banking and finance, as well as regulatory issues She has acted on some of the largest and most complex public equity, debt and hybrid fund raising, takeovers, M&A and privatisation transactions. She has acted in numerous bank and financing transactions and regularly advises sponsors and fund managers in the establishment and syndication of private funds.

Yin Mei has been recognised by clients and key industry publications as a leader in her areas of practice. Her deep knowledge and expertise sees her involved in many first-time-to-the-market transactions, complex structuring and advising on regulatory issues. 

Clients describe Yin Mei as “my go-to lawyer” and “combines local knowledge with international legal judgement.” Her team is praised for their ability to tackle complex transactions. One client explains: “It was not an easy deal, it was unprecedented in many ways. They helped us navigate that very well and generally they were very responsive getting it done in a challenging timeframe.” Another client enthuses, "She's very commercial and takes a pragmatic view of things. When you need her she'll be there." – Chambers Asia Pacific

Yin Mei’s leading practice sees her spearheading the development of the law, and she is a member (some with chair responsibilities) of several industry bodies, relevant to her practice. She has consistently received Band 1 and leading ratings in legal publications, across various product lines including in Chambers Asia Pacific, Who’s Who Legal: Banking, and was named Lawyer of the Year in Best Lawyers, 2023 Edition.