Shook Lin & Bok LLP

Corporate Commercial; Corporate Governance; Employment; Healthcare & Life Sciences; Mergers & Acquisitions; Private Equity & Venture Capital

Partner, Head of Employment

Teo Mae Shaan’s area of practice comprises a broad range of corporate matters, with a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions, corporate, employment and regulatory compliance.

She advises multinational corporations and private companies on their mergers and acquisitions and investments as well as on their general corporate matters such as advising on their commercial and operations-related agreements and licence applications. Her particular focus is in the healthcare sector where she has assisted clients in the due diligence, negotiations and acquisitions of healthcare institutions and advising on various regulatory and compliance matters.

Mae Shaan’s expertise in employment includes drafting and advising clients on employment contracts, employee share and incentive schemes, employment handbooks, organisational restructuring issues, redundancy exercises and termination of employees, as well as advising on restrictive covenants and fiduciary duties.

Mae Shaan also acts for companies and financial institutions on initial public offerings, secondary offerings and debt issuances. Her expertise includes advising companies listed on the SGX-ST on compliance with post-listing requirements of the SGX-ST and her experience includes having advised on performance share plans/share option schemes, dividend reinvestment schemes, share buyback mandates, share issue mandates and other corporate transactions.

Prior to joining the Firm as a Partner, Mae Shaan previously worked in a leading local law firm in Singapore and a leading international law firm in both Singapore and in London where she has advised on a number of equity capital markets, debt capital markets, mergers and acquisitions and other corporate and commercial transactions.

English, Chinese (Mandarin)

Solicitor, England & Wales, 2009
Advocate & Solicitor, Singapore, 2004
LLB (Hons), National University of Singapore, 2003