Tan Yan Yan > Rahmat Lim & Partners > Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia > Lawyer Profile

Rahmat Lim & Partners
SUITE 33.01, LEVEL 33, THE GARDENS NORTH TOWER
MID VALLEY CITY, LINGKARAN SYED PUTRA
59200 KUALA LUMPUR
Malaysia

Work Department

Capital Markets, Investment Funds, Real Estate Investment Trusts

Position

Yan Yan is a Partner in the Financial Services department.

Career

Yan Yan’s areas of practice include capital markets, real estate investment trusts (REITs), investment funds and mergers and acquisitions. She has been involved in initial public offerings (IPOs), equity and debt securities offerings, fund and collective investment scheme formation and other general corporate exercises.

She has experience advising a wide range of clients, including government investment corporations, foreign asset managers, government linked corporations, private limited companies, financial institutions and institutional investors.

Yan Yan is the co-author of the Malaysia chapter of The Securities Litigation Review 2020 published by Law Business Research Ltd.

Languages

English, Madarin and Bahasa Malaysia

Education

Yan Yan graduated from the University of Manchester with an LL.B. (Hons) degree in 2010. She was admitted as a Barrister with Lincoln’s Inn in 2011, and an Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in 2012. She joined the Firm in 2011 as a pupil and was seconded to Allen & Gledhill LLP, Singapore in 2016.

Lawyer Rankings

Malaysia > Capital markets

A robust performer in both domestic and cross-border mandates, Rahmat Lim & Partners’ capital markets offering continues to advise on an extensive range of high-value matters. On the equity capital markets side, the team handles IPOs in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia, as well as employee share schemes and REITs, whereas in debt capital markets, the group is well versed in the renewable energy space. The team is also noted for its investment funds know-how, and regularly advises global clients on the marketing of offshore private investment funds. Wan Kai Chee is experienced in foreign direct investment into Malaysia and schemes of arrangements and vestings, while Kelvin Loh expertly handles sustainability-linked finance, Basel III-compliant bonds, and listed convertible preference share issuances. Zandra Tan covers corporate finance, Geraldine Su advises private equity firms on sovereign funding and project finance, Tan Yan Yan handles fund and collective investment scheme formations, while Livia Hong oversees joint venture and shareholder arrangements.