Ms Woo Shu Yan > 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 Woo Shu Yan
Work Department
Dispute Resolution
Position
Career
Shu Yan practices corporate and commercial litigation and arbitration.
Shu Yan has handled a diverse range of matters including private equity, corporate, banking and finance disputes and regulatory actions. She has a particular interest in trust and shareholder disputes and has represented prominent clients and high net worth individuals in these disputes. She is also actively engaged in advising clients both in and out of the courtroom on wide-ranging and complex legal issues. Shu Yan is committed to achieving resolutions which are commercially practical and sustainable for clients.
Shu Yan has an active arbitration practice. The matters which Shu Yan has handled usually involve damages of significant value or span multiple jurisdictions. She is experienced in handling matters involving foreign law issues.
In 2011, she was appointed to assist the Court as amicus curiae in a case that concerned certain sentencing issues. The learned Judge for the case expressed his gratitude to Shu Yan for her thorough research and fair-minded opinions in his written judgment – [2012] 1 SLR 116.
Shu Yan is proficient in both English and Mandarin. She also speaks the Cantonese dialect.
Languages
English, Mandarin, Cantonese
Memberships
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Appointed to the Singapore Academy of Law’s Promotion of Singapore Law Committee headed by Justice Vinodh Coomaraswamy and Justice Kannan Ramesh
- Member, Law Society of Singapore
- Member, Singapore Academy of Law
Education
- LL.B. (Hons), National University of Singapore (2005)
- Admitted to the Singapore Bar (2006)
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