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Yi Li Tan

+603 2273 1919 yi.li.tan@christopherleeong.com View profile

Position

Partner, Christopher & Lee Ong, Malaysia

• Corporate TMT
• Ethics & Integrity
• Fraud & White Collar Crime
• Sustainability

Career

Yi Li has practised as a foreign lawyer specialising in cross border M&A transactions and private equity fund matters in Singapore before resuming her practice in Malaysia. She currently handles M&A transactions with a special focus on ethics and integrity matters.

She advises her clients in navigating red-tape and regulatory requirements in her M&A transactions, and is regularly called upon to assist clients to comply with anti-bribery and anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, whistleblower’s protection, human rights, sustainability and fair labour rights laws.

She designs compliance programmes including policies, processes and best practices according to each client’s corporate culture and ecosystem. Her experience further extends to investigations, in particular relating to audit inquiries, bribery and corruption, fraud and money laundering.

She is also part of the Firm’s sustainability practice, which encompasses the ESG factors (Environment, Social and Governance) and is involved in combatting fraud and financial crimes, crisis management and instilling good corporate governance behaviour under the governance limb.

Memberships

• Member, Malaysian Bar
• Member, Inner Temple (non-practising)

Education

• Advocate & Solicitor, High Court of Malaya
• Barrister, Inner Temple, United Kingdom
• Bar Professional Training Course, BPP Law School, UK
• LLB (Hons), University of Reading