Fintech and Corporate Lawyers, Commissioner for Oaths, Notary Public

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Our Director, Elaine Phang, holds a LLB (Hons) degree from Queen Mary College, University of London where she graduated in 1992. She did her barrister course in 1993 and was a member of Gray’s Inn, London.  Thereafter, she returned to Singapore and was called to the Singapore bar in 1994.

She is a Notary Public, a Commissioner for Oaths, an Associate Mediator of the Singapore Mediation Centre, an Accredited Mediator of the Singapore International Mediation Institute, a Court-appointed Volunteer Mediator, a mediator on the panel of The Law Society of Singapore Mediation Scheme, a Neutral Evaluator for FIDREC (Financial Industry Disputes Resolution Centre Ltd) and a member of the Global-Asia Family Office Circle in the Wealth Management Institute .

Elaine has had more than 20 years’ of experience in legal practice with a focus  on Company Law and Corporate and Commercial Law and Estate Planning.

In these project financings, she negotiated and drafted key project agreements as Company Lawyer and maintained her principal’s financial interests in negotiations on financing documentation by, for instance, making sure that the desired credit enhancement mechanisms were in place.

During her stint as Legal Counsel in a US MNC, she carried a dual portfolio of a legal counsel for corporate and risk management matters ; a portfolio which comprised of legal work relating to corporate agreements ; such as shareholder agreement, share sale and purchase agreement; and commercial contracts such as services agreements, service level agreements, supply of services contract, sale of goods contract, facilities management contracts and  risk management processes. There, she single-handedly built the Asia-Pacific risk management framework to mitigate risks in all areas, in particular legal and actuarial risks.

As a Corporate Lawyer, Elaine is steadfast about structuring for her  clients' investor-friendly  and regulation-compliant entities to attract and maintain funding, financing and strategic exits.

As a Business Lawyer, she manages her clients’ commercial transactions from service and supply agreements to e-commerce agreements and franchise and licensing contracts.

To her start-up and SME clients,  she is their corporate lawyer and commercial lawyer who ensures they enter into safety-standards-compliant business contracts in e-commerce, in procurement, in marketing and branding, in client-services by ensuring that they operate within risk-mitigated frameworks.

She also adds value to her relations with her clientele by helping them manage and maintain their strategic business alliances and assets and ensuring they are well protected for their intellectual property in terms of trademarks, copyright, patents with a view to giving the business a sustainable value through a licence or franchise or distribution agreements. “It is always gratifying to see your clients prosper.”

As a mediator, Elaine sees numerous advantages in mediation over traditional litigation as a dispute-terminating tool. Her clients are appreciative of the costs and time savings they see in this method of dispute-resolution.

Elaine is committed to supporting entrepreneurs and startups and is passionate about cultivating fresh perspectives to “entrepreneurship”; a mark of a true commercial lawyer, a business lawyer.

Some areas of her continuing legal education include: 

-Data and Digital Economy Law Course: Fintech and Regtech Regulation and Digital Asset Management and Protection

-Cryptocurrency Issues for Experts

-International Financial Law Executive Program conducted by the New York Institute of Finance; 

-Knowledge Management; Risk Management,