Simmons & Simmons

Rui Wen is an Of Counsel in our banking and finance practice in Singapore. He regularly advises commercial banks, fund managers, alternative financing providers, commodity traders and corporate borrowers on a variety of financing structures and products.

His strength lies in complex cross-border transactions and he has acted on transactions involving entities across Asia-Pacific (APAC) and EMEA, including Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Korea, India, Japan China, UK, EU, the Middle East, BVI, the Cayman Islands and Mauritius. US financing vehicles also regularly feature on his transactions.

Rui Wen has significant experience advising on a wide range of financing structures and products, including syndicated and bilateral (both secured and unsecured) facilities, interbank lending, commodity & trade finance (including inventory and warehouse financing, commodity repos, true sale structures and advanced payment facilities), borrowing base facilities, international real estate financing, project financing, asset financing, acquisition financing, funded and unfunded risk participations and funds financing (including subscription line and GP facilities).

In addition, he is highly skilled at working with and navigating business, operations, credit, compliance and legal teams within commercial banks, having completed two secondments at HSBC and OCBC (where he was their trusted advisor on their IBOR remediation project) and also having advised on the structuring and offer of trade finance products by a large commercial bank.

Prior to joining Simmons & Simmons, Rui Wen worked at a Big Four Singapore law firm, where he was part of their Band 1-ranked Debt Capital Markets team.