Ms Ong Ken Loon > Drew & Napier LLC > Singapore, Singapore > Lawyer Profile
Drew & Napier LLC Offices
10 COLLYER QUAY
#10-01 OCEAN FINANCIAL CENTRE
SINGAPORE 049315
Singapore
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Ms Ong Ken Loon
Work Department
Tax & Private Client Services
Position
Head, Tax & Private Client Services
Career
Ken Loon advises on tax aspects of corporate transactions, such as income tax, GST, stamp duty, and property tax.
She assists clients with negotiations with the IRAS and represents clients before the tax tribunals and Singapore courts.
Her clients come from across business sectors. She advises local and multinational corporate groups, financial institutions, and investment funds on a broad range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate structures and restructurings.
In addition, Ken Loon works with private clients to provide solutions to complex tax, succession and private wealth management issues.
Before joining Drew & Napier in 2008, she was a Principal Legal Officer in the Law Division of the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore.
She is recommended as one of Singapore’s leading tax lawyers by Chambers & Partners, The Asia Pacific Legal 500, International Tax Review: World Tax, asialaw and Practical Law Company Which Lawyer?.
Languages
English
Memberships
- Member, Law Society of Singapore
- Member, Singapore Academy of Law
- Member, Criminal Law Advisory Committee (Hearing)
- Member, International Fiscal Association, Singapore Branch
- Member, Singapore International Chamber of Commerce, Tax Interest Policy Group
- Accredited Tax Advisor (Income Tax) in Singapore Chartered Tax Professionals Limited
Education
- LL.B. (Hons), National University of Singapore (2001)
- MSc Taxation, University of Oxford
- Ken Loon advises on tax aspects of corporate transactions, such as income tax, GST, stamp duty, and property tax.
She assists clients with negotiations with the IRAS and represents clients before the tax tribunals and Singapore courts.
Her clients come from across business sectors. She advises local and multinational corporate groups, financial institutions, and investment funds on a broad range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate structures and restructurings.
In addition, Ken Loon works with private clients to provide solutions to complex tax, succession and private wealth management issues.
Before joining Drew & Napier in 2008, she was a Principal Legal Officer in the Law Division of the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore.
She is recommended as one of Singapore’s leading tax lawyers by Chambers & Partners, The Asia Pacific Legal 500, International Tax Review: World Tax, asialaw and Practical Law Company Which Lawyer?.
Admitted to the Singapore Bar in May 2002
Lawyer Rankings
Singapore > Tax: local firms
(Hall of Fame)Litigation powerhouse Drew & Napier LLC represents clients before tax tribunals and the Supreme Court in relation to goods and services tax, property tax and stamp duties, with additional experience advising on corporate tax advisory, enterprise tax risk management and private wealth planning mandates. Praised as ‘technically strong with great knowledge of clients’ businesses’, the team is led by Ong Ken Loon, who is well-versed in cross- border matters and handles tax disputes with the IRAS, representing clients in appeals before the Singapore courts. Ong Sim Ho maintains a robust tax disputes practice, while Yang Shi Yong is a key contact for task risk management, tax audits and tax investigation cases.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Antitrust and competition: local firms
- Dispute resolution: local firms
- Intellectual property: Local firms
- Labour and employment: local firms
- Private wealth and family law – local firms
- Projects and energy: local firms
- Restructuring and insolvency: local firms
- Tax: local firms
- TMT: local firms
- White-collar crime - Local firms
Firm Rankings
- Construction: Local firms
- Data protection and cyber security
- International arbitration
- Investment funds: local firms
- Real estate: local firms
- Banking and finance: local firms
- Capital markets: equity and debt: local firms
- Corporate and M&A: local firms
- Fintech and financial services regulatory: local firms