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Regional Lawyers |
Managing Partner
Regional
helen.yeo@rodyk.com
+65 6885 3600
Helen Yeo is the managing partner of Rodyk & Davidson LLP. She founded HelenYeo & Partners in 1992, which merged with Rodyk & Davidson in 2002. Helen continued to lead the firm after the successful merger.
Rodyk, one of Singapore's largest law firms, has a regional focus and an office in Shanghai. The office was established in October 1996 by HelenYeo & Partners, the first Singapore law firm to be granted a licence in Shanghai.
Helen is a veteran of the legal industry with experience in all major legal practice areas. She has extensive experience in regional transactions and investments. Under her leadership, partners in the firm undertook major projects such as Wuxi-Singapore Industrial Park (China), Vietnam-Singapore Industrial Park (Vietnam), Sanlin Township project (China) and Raffles City project (China). She has advised on the financing of projects with Singapore interests in China, Vietnam and Myanmar.
Helen has advised on major property deals involving joint ventures, put and call options, sharing of facilities and co-development of property developments. In 2007 she led and negotiated several large corporate real estate transactions where a team of partners in Rodyk's Real Estate, Construction, Finance and Corporate Practice Groups provided the breadth and depth of expertise required by major international property funds making acquisitions in Singapore.
Helen's banking and finance experience includes advising on debt restructuring, takeout financing, insider trading issues on the exercise of a power of sale and priority, risk, insolvency and enforcement issues. In her corporate practice, she advised on investment and industrial projects, such as chemical projects on Jurong Island requiring the complex sharing of industrial facilities. She has advised on company law issues including reconstruction, minority rights, interested persons transactions and other prohibited transactions.
From 1974 to 1995, Helen acted as counsel, including appearing before the Court of Appeal, in corporate law, commercial law and banking law cases. She was counsel in several major cases including:
| - | a company law case before the Privy Council, London, assisting a Queen's Counsel; representing the liquidators of Lin Securities against about a dozen banks involving issues of floating charges and priorities of securities; |
| - | a banking and company law case, including at Court of Appeal, involving a sale and repurchase of shares by the client, Banque Paribas, where the liquidators of Pan-Electric unsuccessfully sought to invalidate a sale by alleging an invalid security; and |
| - | in connection with litigation, advised on insolvency issues which involve company law, banking law and securities law. |
