Ms Rosabel Ng > WongPartnership LLP > Singapore, Singapore > Lawyer Profile

Ms Rosabel Ng

+65 6416 8269 rosabel.ng@wongpartnership.com View profile

Work Department

Financial Services Group; Derivatives & Structured Products Practice; Financial Services Regulatory Practice; FinTech Practice; Sustainability & Responsible Business Practice.

Position

Head – Derivatives & Structured Products Practice;
Partner – Financial Services Regulatory, FinTech, and Sustainability & Responsible Business Practices.

Career

Her main areas of practice are financial markets and services regulatory and advisory (with specific focus on the regulation of derivatives and structured products, as well as regulatory compliance and advisory matters relating to primary financial market infrastructure providers), derivatives transactions, structured finance and other treasury-related work.   

Significant transactions that Rosabel has been involved in include advising / acting for the following:

• The arranger and hedge provider in the first Singapore retail offer of structured notes by a corporate issuer, Keppel Structured Notes Pte. Ltd., in 2006, and acting for Société Générale in the first Singapore retail offer of structured notes by a financial institution in 2012 under the revised regulatory regime after the 2008-2009 global financial crisis.
• A licensed bank on all legal, regulatory and documentary issues relating to the sale and transfer of its OTC derivatives business portfolio to a prospective buyer.
• A consortium comprising local and overseas corporations in respect of their application to the Monetary Authority of Singapore for a digital wholesale bank licence to be issued by the Authority.
• A UK-based FinTech service provider seeking to provide innovative technological liquidity platforms and solutions to facilitate foreign exchange and foreign exchange derivative trades in emerging market currencies in its successful application for regulatory approval under Singapore’s initial FinTech initiatives.
• Europe’s largest operator of securities and derivatives exchanges and clearing houses in the establishment of its Asian clearing and trading venues in Singapore, and on the regulatory aspects of its proposed merger with another major international financial market infrastructure provider, including merger control approvals, exemptions and clearances.
• Various participants in Singapore’s climate impact ecosystem on the legal and regulatory considerations for establishing a hub for carbon-related products and services.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Awards & Accolades:

Rosabel is recommended as a top-tier practitioner by Chambers Asia-Pacific – Asia-Pacific’s Leading Lawyers for Business since 2016, in the area of Securitisation & Derivatives and is ranked as a leading individual for Financial Services Regulatory matters in Singapore in The Legal 500: Asia Pacific – The Client’s Guide to the Asia Pacific Legal Profession since 2017. She is recognised as a leading capital markets lawyer by Who’s Who Legal: Capital Markets 2016 and 2017 as well as a leading structured finance and securitisation lawyer by Expert Guides – Guide to the World’s Leading Women in Business Law since 2012, and is further recognised in AsiaLaw Leading Lawyers in the areas of Structured Finance and Regulatory. Rosabel is listed in IFLR Asia Best Lawyers 2020, and in IFLR 1000 Women Leaders 2018 which recognises 300 female lawyers in the world considered to be among the best transactional specialists in their markets and practice areas by clients and peers, and based on track record. Rosabel was the winner of the Asialaw Awards 2020 (for Client Service Excellence) and “Lawyer of the Year in Singapore”, and also won the ILO Client Choice Awards 2012 for Derivatives in Singapore.

Publications & Legal Updates:

• Law Gazette – Going “Green” the Singapore way 2011
• Getting The Deal Through – Banking Regulation, Singapore Chapter 2016
• Butterworths Journal of International Banking & Financial Law – Inside and outside Singapore’s proposed FinTech regulatory sandbox: balancing supervision and innovation 2016
• Chambers Asia-Pacific – Singapore Country Overview 2017

Languages

English, Mandarin and French. Conversant in basic Japanese.

Memberships

Member, Law Society of Singapore and International Swaps and Derivatives Association’s Legal & Regulatory Committee.

Education

Admitted, 1994, Singapore; 1998, England & Wales; National University of Singapore (LL.B., Hons.); King’s College, University of London (LL.M.).