Joyce A. Tan has been consistently recognized as a leading lawyer over the long years of her practice by numerous legal publications including Legal 500, Chambers, Practical Law Company, AsiaLaw, Who’s Who Legal, World Trademark Review, International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers, International Who’s Who of Regulatory Communications Lawyers, International Who’s Who of Internet, E-Commerce & Data Protection Lawyers, Global Communications, Guide to the World’s Leading Technology, Media & Telecommunications Lawyers, Global Counsel 3000, Guide to the World’s Leading Women in Business Law, Global Law Experts and The Best Lawyers, Asia Business Law Journal’s 2019 A-List of Singapore’s Top 100 Lawyers and Finance Monthly’s Singapore 2019 Corporate Lawyer of the Year. Joyce continues to garner independently assessed accolades and recently made it to Asian Legal Business Super 50 TMT Lawyers 2024.

To quote from the reports on some of these publications based on independent research, “Joyce Tan has an excellent reputation”, “is a very well reputed lawyer”, “very focused”, “really knows her stuff”, “is admired for the quality and longevity of her practice”, “is recognized as one of the finest commercial IP lawyers in Singapore” and “a seasoned stalwart in the industry”.

Joyce is a transactional lawyer in corporate and commercial matters, including cross-border M&A deals, private equity investments, collaborative ventures and financing transactions. She is particularly renowned for her work in TMT and intellectual property, having pioneered many cutting-edge deals of its time, including complex technical procurement and supply transactions, the use of cashless payment systems, fintech innovations and other innovative technology and telecommunications networks. She handled the first interconnect transaction in Singapore when the telecommunications industry was first lilberalised, as well as the nation-wide “CashCard” project in Singapore, and continues to assist clients with high-tech payment systems at the frontiers of regulatory frameworks.

She is also routinely involved in the acquisition, disposition, relocation, protection and exploitation of intellectual property and intangible assets and in advising on business-related and planning issues involving employment, immigration and tax.

Joyce has delivered numerous lectures, both in the local and international circuits and has developed and conducted multiple training curricula for organizations in Singapore and abroad, including government agencies, on the subject matter covered by her extensive practice.

Qualifications and Appointments

• LLB (Honours), National University of Singapore
• Advocate & Solicitor, Supreme Court of the Republic of Singapore
• Roll of Solicitors, England & Wales (non-practising)
• Registered Patent Agent, Singapore
• Notary Public, Singapore
• Commissioner for Oaths, Singapore
• Panel Member of Dispute Resolution Service under the Singapore Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy
• Principal Mediator, Singapore Mediation Centre
• List of Neutrals of the World Intellectual Property Organization
• Member of Advisory Committee, World Intellectual Property Organization Centre, 2021-2024
• Panel Member of Trademark Mediators Network of the International Trademark Association
• Associate Mediator, The Law Society of Singapore
• Arbitrator of Langfang Arbitration Commission, China
• Member of Law Reform Committee, Singapore Academy of Law, 2006 - to-date
• Member of Sub-Committee on Smart Contracts of Law Reform Committee of Singapore Academy of Law, 2019 - to-date
• Member of Advisory Panel to the Commercial Law Framework in Singapore, Singapore Academy of Law, 2013
• Member of Core Committee, Technology Law Conference Series, Singapore Academy of Law, 2014-to-date
• Director, The World Justice Project Ltd, 2017 - todate
• Member of Executive Committee, Meritas Law Firms Worldwide, 2015-2018
• Chair of Member Engagement Committee, Meritas Law Firms Worldwide, 2015-2018
• Member of the Board of Directors, Meritas Law Firms Worldwide, 2010-2013,
• Member of Chair-Elect Nominating Committee, Meritas Law Firms Worldwide, 2012
• Brand Development Committee, Meritas Law Firms Worldwide, 2010-2011
• Member of Member Relations and Marketing Committee, Meritas Law Firms Worldwide, 2011-2013
• Co-chair, Asian Region, Meritas Law Firms Worldwide, 2010 - 2014
• Member of think tank on Technology Law Development Group, Singapore
• Member of Legal Panel on Convergence Issues, Info-Communications Development Authority of Singapore
• Member of Working Group on Electronic Commerce, Singapore
• Member of Examinations Committee for Singapore Patent Agents Qualifying Examination, Intellectual Property Office of Singapore, 2006
• Singapore Country Representative, Emerging IP Rights Committee, Asian Patent Attorneys Association, 2004 - 2006
• Executive Committee Member and Publications Chair, Inter-Pacific Bar Association, 1996 – 1998
• Vice Chair of Telecommunications Committee, Inter-Pacific Bar Association, 1999-2002
• Webmaster and At-Large Council Member, Inter-Pacific Bar Association, 2006-2009
• Chair of Technology and Communications Committee, Inter-Pacific Bar Association, 2002-2004
• Member of Free Trade Areas Subcommittee, International Trademark Association, 2006-2007
• Member of Intellectual Property Committee, Law Society of Singapore, 1995, 1997, 1999-2014
• Chair of Copyright and Designs Sub-Committee, Law Society of Singapore, 2002
• Chair of Info-Media Sub-Committee, Law Society of Singapore, 2005, 2006 & 2007
• Member of Committee on Multidisciplinary Practices, Law Society of Singapore, 1999
• Member of Committee on Practice Structures, Law Society of Singapore, 2000
• Professional Affiliations with / Memberships in :
  -- International Trade Mark Association
  -- Asian Patent Attorneys Association
  -- Inter-Pacific Bar Association
  -- Association of Singapore Patent Attorneys

Daniel Lim has been listed as a leading lawyer consistently through the years in a diverse range of publications such as Chambers Asia-Pacific, Asia-Pacific Legal 500, Benchmark Litigation, IAM Patent 1000 and AsiaLaw Leading Lawyers.

In particular, Chambers Asia-Pacific has noted that "Daniel Lim … has a well established reputation in technology-related IP. Clients describe him as an extremely professional lawyer who "speaks well, knows the pros and cons, and always has the best solution at hand"; and is "an excellent patent litigation lawyer" according to interviewees".

The Asia-Pacific Legal 500 has listed Daniel as a Leading Individual for IT and Telecoms and has described him as "the 'smart and hardworking' Daniel Lim".

Daniel Lim's practice focuses on dispute resolution and advisory work, over a wide range of commercial and business subject matter, including in relation to contracts, M&A transactions, shareholders, directors, competition, employment, defamation, trade libel, trust, etc. and with particular strengths in intellectual property, information technology and telecommunications matters.

Daniel is a renowned patent litigation lawyer in Singapore, and remains actively engaged in this area, having represented Singapore Airlines in the patent infringement allegation by British Airways over the first-class sleeper seats.

In his handling of contentious proceedings, whether before the Appellate Court, High Court or State Courts in Singapore or in arbitration proceedings, Daniel deploys his procedural mastery and breadth of experience in the best interests of his clients, and has yielded many successful outcomes. As illustration, these have involved highly technical matters from clean water technology in wafer fabrication, process for splicing reinforced concrete steel bars, automatic molding to encapsulate electronic parts, surface coating on airplane engines, to the geophysical and geotechnical aspects of an anchor design in the context of an offshore oil field.

In less technical fields, Daniel has demonstrated his deftness in navigating commercial and business disputes including those involving the use of brands, fraud, banking services, standby offtake contracts, transshipment services, and investment transactions.

Daniel is a contributing author to the books "Law Relating to Specific Contracts In Singapore" (Thomson Sweet & Maxwell); "Intellectual Property" (Lexis-Nexis Butterworth's); "International Franchising" (Kluwer Law International); and "Employment Law Review" (Law Business Research Ltd).

Qualifications and Appointments

• LLB (Honours), National University of Singapore
• Advocate & Solicitor, Supreme Court of the Republic of Singapore
• Registered Patent Agent, Singapore
• Member of Examinations Committee for Singapore Patent Agents Qualifying Examination, Intellectual Property Office of Singapore, 2007-2022
• Member of Intellectual Property Committee, Law Society of Singapore, 2015-to-date
• Co-Chair, Intellectual Property Committee, Inter-Pacific Bar Association, 2013-2015

Jeffrey Lim is a TMT and IP lawyer who specialises Information Technology, data protection, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, data governance, and IT procurement and regulatory clearance.

He has worked with clients who operate in multiple industries and across multiple jurisdictions. Whether it is national infrastructural projects and initiatives, or building, enhancing or maintaining multinational compliance and enforcement programs, or managing global intellectual property asset portfolios, Jeffrey has cultivated a track record of matters which include investments into, and the design and structuring of complex and current tip-of-the-spear innovation.

The Asia-Pacific Legal 500 quotes from interviewees, “Jeffrey Lim is an experienced lawyer with in-depth and good technical and insights in the contracts he handles and advises on. He has a good business sense and is able to advise in-house counsels what will happen around the corner. This enables the in-house team to be well- prepared with their planning.”; “Jeffrey Lim stands out on PDPA matters. He is also an IT savvy Tech lawyer”; And “Jeffrey Lim with the unparalleled dedication to any work committed.”

Jeffrey is a Senior Accredited Specialist in Data & Digital Economy Law under the Singapore Academy of Law Specialist Accreditation Scheme, as a Senior Accredited Specialist in Data and Digital Economy Law. The scheme recognises the high level of proficiency of legal practitioners in their chosen practice area and provides the legal industry and general public with a reliable means of identifying and accessing legal practitioners who have proven themselves as possessing the requisite skills and knowledge in a practice area.

Jeffrey has won awards by the Lexology International Law Office Client Choice Awards, Best Lawyers, in each case for fields in IP or Technology law. He has been recognized and recommended by publications such as Legal 500, World Trademark Review, Managing IP and others.

Jeffrey’s core expertise is in designing and executing legal solutions, advice and strategies in all matters relating to technology whether this in respect of commercial or litigious matters, and whether this is in the fields of digital technology (such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, fintech, industry 4.0. mobile solutions, e-commerce), in telecommunications, media, healthcare, life sciences, human biomedical research governance, or in research & development.

Jeffrey spent some years as in-house counsel at a global multinational technology company, an experience he credits as giving him front-line business experience and a greater appreciation and practice of commercial acumen, and the vital importance of priorities and business realities.

Jeffrey is an active leader in communities of practice, and has written extensively including in the areas of data protection:

• “The Thaler Decision – AI Need Not Apply”, 1 Feb 2024
• “Did Singapore Solve Copyright Issues in the Training of AI models?”, Aug 2023
• “Black Cates & Generative A.I. – How LLMs are looked at from a Copyright perspective”, Oct 2023
• SCS-IMDA AI Ethics Body of Knowledge, v1.0 (contributor), v 1.1 (reviewer)
• “When Data Transfer Borders Tighten: What can data trusts bring to the Table?”, Personal Data Protection Digest 2022 published by PDPC;
• “Fostering Data Sharing and Innovation Whilst Maintaining Legal Safeguards”, Personal Data Protection Digest 2021 published by PDPC;
• “Implementing Data Breach Programmes: Understanding Nuances in Practice and the Personal Data Protection Act”, Personal Data Protection Digest 2020 published by PDPC;
• “Artificial Intelligence & the Personal Data Protection Act” Personal Data Protection Digest 2019 published by PDPC;
• “Data Sharing: When Consent is Not Enough”, Personal Data Protection Digest 2018 published by PDPC; and
• “Data Analytics: Considerations when Repurposing Transactional Personal Data” Personal Data Protection Digest 2017 published by PDPC;

Each published by the Singapore Personal Data Protection Commission.

He has also authored and led feedback given to both public and private consultations by regulatory authorities on legal reform and development.

Qualifications and Appointments

• Senior Accredited Specialist in Data & Digital Economy Law - Singapore Academy of Law
• CAIEG (Certificate of AI Ethics & Governance), NTU
• LLB (Honours), University of Bristol
• Barrister-at-law, England & Wales (Gray’s Inn) (non-practising)
• Advocate & Solicitor, Supreme Court of the Republic of Singapore
• Member of Singapore Academy of Law IT Roadmap Working Group
• Vice-Chair, Singapore Law Society Cybersecurity & Data Protection Committee 2023, (Vice-Chair, 2016-2019, Co-chair 2020, Chair 2021-22)
• Member, Singapore Law Society IT Committee
• Member of Law Legal Technology Cluster Committee and the Innovation Advisory Board, Singapore Academy of Law, 2016-present
• Honorary Legal Advisor for Singapore Computer Society
• Member of the accreditation panel of the Accreditation Committee, Singapore Institute of Legal Education

Wendy Lee’s practice is in corporate and commercial law, corporate governance and compliance and company administration, corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, private equity investment, local and regional joint ventures.

Wendy started her legal career in Corporate Finance at another premier Singapore law firm. She was made Partner and headed the law firm’s Corporate Services Practice where she managed the firm’s extensive Corporate Services portfolio. Wendy has more than two decades experience in building up and managing Corporate Services portfolios of law firms. Wendy also has experience as Corporate Counsel in a Singapore multinational with business interests in Asia and North America.

Over the course of her career in practice, Wendy has been appointed as Company Secretary to numerous private companies across a wide spectrum of industries. These private companies include Singapore group companies of entities listed on NYSE, London Stock Exchange and Tokyo Stock Exchange. Wendy’s experience as a Corporate Counsel has given her an understanding in dealing with legal and finance teams of corporations, both locally in Singapore and from their foreign offices. She is often a key contact for management of these companies and works very closely with management and their legal and finance teams to regularly advice on their day-to-day company matters, cross border transactional corporate matters, corporate governance and compliance matters. Wendy also advises foreign companies and multinationals on setting up of their operations in Singapore and their continuing compliance requirements in Singapore.

Publications

Wendy wrote an article on “Singapore means Business”, Equities Quarterly (1999)

Qualifications and Appointments

• Notary Public
• Advocate & Solicitor, Supreme Court of the Republic of Singapore
• Barrister-at-Law (Middle Temple)
• LLB (Honours)

Frederick is with the firm’s corporate practice, specialising in mergers and acquisitions and corporate transactions.

Having worked on corporate transactions including various corporate acquisitions, Frederick has also gone to develop more than 10 years of experience in the healthcare and consumer healthcare industry which was gained in his in-house position in a multi-national pharmaceutical (and previously consumer healthcare) company. During his time spent in the organisation, he has assumed responsibilities in advising on legal issues relating to Singapore (when he assumed the legal director role) as well as legal issues relating to a cluster in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore (when he assumed the cluster legal lead role).

In the healthcare and life sciences industry, Frederick was responsible for both operational and transactional aspects of companies which include advising on supply contracts for active pharmaceutical ingredients in the manufacturing process, pricing and supply of medicines contracts with both public and private healthcare practices, advising on cross-border transactions globally, and advising on digital projects.

He has also supported multiple divestments and investment deals most notably the recent divestment by the company of its consumer healthcare group where he led the due diligence over multiple countries in Asia Pacific including China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. In his capacity as in-house counsel, he was also the lead lawyer coordinating and supporting the divestment of certain brands in Greece and Italy as part of the transactions.

His contributions and expertise in the various operational and transactional aspects was recognised when he was awarded the Lex-Falcon Legal Award in 2022 for outstanding lawyers with more than 10 years of experience and recognised as the top 5 in-house counsels in Southeast Asia by ALB in 2023.

Frederick’s profile as a corporate lawyer is enhanced by the fact that his breadth of experience includes the operational and transactional aspects of corporations. This allows him to provide seamless support to both investment and operational teams before, during and even after business acquisitions. He has honed his expertise in operational and transactional aspects through his work with complex multi-national pharmaceutical and healthcare businesses.

He has also had the opportunity to advise on multiple digital and artificial intelligence projects across the globe ranging from marketing tools to tools for insights developments in issues including but not limited to works council responses, privacy matters and coming up with mitigation steps to manage the risks both from a technical and a process perspective.

Frederick also acted as a company secretary for at least 4 different Singapore companies where he led the maintenance of corporate secretarial work including preparation of resolutions for transactional deals. He was appointed the data protection officer for companies based in Singapore and assumed the responsibilities in advising privacy operational matters.

Frederick has supported a number of both private equity and public listed mergers and acquisition transactions where he supported due diligence, contracts drafting and preparation, contract negotiations as well as post-completion integration of the companies. His experience spun across food and beverage industries, water treatment industries and airline ticketing industries. Some of the notable transactions include:

• assisted a pharmaceutical company in advising and leading the transaction for the disposal of certain medically critical assets in Austria and Germany as well as the negotiation of a distribution agreement with the then distributor as part of the disposal;
• assisted in an acquisition by a pharmaceutical company of shares in off-shore companies which in turn held shares in Indian listed entities
• led the due diligence process and also the divestment of certain joint assets in a major cross-border divestment by a pharmaceutical company in its consumer healthcare business;
• led the transaction by a local major conglomerate in the private acquisition of a chain of restaurants in Singapore;
• supported the Singapore leg of an acquisition by a major Japanese food company in its acquisition of a chain of fast food restaurants in Singapore;
• assisted the Singapore leg of a major global acquisition of infant nutrition business by another major consumer healthcare company;
• advised a major airline ticketing company in its private acquisition of shares in companies in Australia; and
• advised the voluntary takeover of a water solutions company in a reverse listing process.

Frederick has also been consistently invited to speak at conferences from 2019 most notably the following:

• “AI and data privacy” in the conference organised by IPR Gorilla on 25 June 2019
• “Legal department of the future: Digitisation and Disruption” in the conference organised by Lextalk World on 23 and 24 November 2022
• “Managing Third Party Risk throughout the lifecycle” in the conference organised by Global Legal ConfEx on 20 February 2024
• “Crisis Management in the Age of A.I.” in the conference organised by Ethos BeathChapman on 29 February 2024
• “Navigating IP, Employment and Corporate Strategies in Healthcare and Life Sciences” in the conference organised by Simmons & Simmons on 18 April 2024

Qualifications

• LLB (Honours), National University of Singapore
• Advocate & Solicitor, Supreme Court of the Republic of Singapore
• Solicitor, Senior Courts of England and Wales
• Certified Information Privacy Professional Europe, 2023

Lakshmanan’s practice involves a broad range of contentious and non-contentious work in the corporate and commercial sphere with a particular focus on IP and TMT. His background in engineering gives him an edge when navigating technical matters and allows him to deliver bespoke and precise advice according to his clients’ needs.

Lakshmanan has litigation experience in commercial fraud, contracts, shareholder disputes, employment and defamation. He has also assisted in advising clients on regulatory matters, drafting service agreements and conducting internal investigations.

Outside of the law, Lakshmanan enjoys travelling and calisthenics.

Qualifications

• LLB (Honours), University of Bristol
• Advocate & Solicitor, Supreme Court of the Republic of Singapore

Stephanie’s key area of practice is in corporate law with a particular focus on IP, TMT, IT and data protection.

She has been involved in and assisted with various corporate, commercial and regulatory matters, including franchise licensing and contract negotiations, advisory work on telecommunications license applications, privacy and data protection compliance and general corporate matters, as well as drafting and review of transactional documents.

In particular, she is interested in matters at the intersection between law and technology, and has worked on among other things, drafting master services agreements for software procurement services, cloud computing services and other IT services, incorporating agile methodology commonly used in software development and tailoring those agreements to address clients’ business objectives.

Outside of law, Stephanie is interested in art and paints in her free time.

Qualifications
• LLB (Honours), Singapore Management University
• Advocate & Solicitor, Supreme Court of the Republic of Singapore

Genevi’s practice involves TMT and IP work in the corporate and commercial sphere. She has experience assisting with trade mark filing and prosecution strategies, as well as licensing and franchise agreements.

Genevi has a keen interest in artificial intelligence and data protection and has experience in matters relating to data governance, privacy and data protection.

In her free time, Genevi enjoys playing soccer, dancing and hiking.

Qualifications
• LLB (Honours), Singapore Management University
• Advocate & Solicitor, Supreme Court of the Republic of Singapore

Sarah has experience in the practice areas of intellectual property and corporate finance. She has assisted in preparing advice and opinions for patent applications and copyright matters, as well as drafting documents for cross-border loan transactions.

In her free time, Sarah enjoys exercising, exploring parks, and learning about photography & film.

Qualifications
• LLB (Honours), National University of Singapore
• Advocate & Solicitor, Supreme Court of the Republic of Singapore

André has a background in chemical engineering and has 10+ years of experience working with patents and designs. His experience encompasses handling technologies in the fields of chemistry, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, consumer goods, mechanics, renewable energy and telecom. More recently, he completed the Master of IP and Innovation Management programme offered by SUSS in cooperation with WIPO, enabling a unique view of the business-technical-legal triad.

His responsibilities include managing patent, design and plant variety portfolios both locally and internationally, preparing replies to search reports, appeals, examination review/re-examination requests, requesting entry into accelerated examination programmes, and preparing and filing third party observations and administrative nullity procedures. He further advises clients on strategic matters, preparing patentability search and analyses, FTO, infringement and validity reports. Prior to joining Joyce A Tan & Partners LLC, he worked at a multi-practice law firm in Brazil, handling patent and design prosecution cases and advising local and multinational companies on administrative and court instance cases.

Qualifications
• Master of IP and Innovation Management (MIPIM), Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) in Cooperation with World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
• B.Eng. (Chemical Engineering), UFRJ (Brazil)

Sandra Ng oversees the overall production line of the sizeable patent prosecution portfolio undertaken by the practice. Sandra has been instrumental in enhancing and optimizing the support infrastructure deployed in this practice area, leveraging intelligent automation along with a robust capability to streamline processes in the handling of voluminous matters, while maintaining flexibility to cater to the unique requirements of individual clients.

Sandra comes with extensive experience in intellectual property that dates back to 1995, particularly in patent prosecution and operation, having worked through the ranks to the management group of one of Singapore's largest patent prosecution firms. There, she had managed a team of 40 dedicated patent personnel and 12,000 patent applications, involving diverse fields of technology including biopharmaceutical, biochemistry, chemistry, semiconductors, etc. in multiple jurisdictions.

As an active proponent of knowledge and data management, Sandra has dedicated herself to the development of internal systems to manage a large client base, with needs across multiple jurisdictions, multiple inventions and recurrent transactions. Her palpable team spirit sees her deftly collaborating with and playing to the strengths of her colleagues involved in patent work, whether in relation to back-office efficiencies, deadline policing, client practices and requirements or substantive advice or actions on the patent matters.