Teh & Lee

Corporate and Capital Markets

Senior Legal Associate

Simone practises in corporate law with a focus on capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, and cross-border transactions. She advises founders, management teams, and investors across fundraising, acquisitions, and IPOs, from deal structuring and due diligence through to completion.

Her capital markets practice includes IPO work on Bursa Malaysia as well as other corporate exercises. On the M&A side, she has advised on acquisitions involving both Malaysian-incorporated and foreign-listed acquirers, with experience navigating the regulatory and practical demands of multi-jurisdictional deals.

She is known for a commercial, solutions-oriented approach and for building close working relationships with clients at every level, from management through to the board. Working with her team, she leads due diligence and transaction structuring, helping companies navigate complexity with discipline and controlled risk. Clients consistently describe her as someone who makes complex situations feel manageable, combining clear, pragmatic advice with a genuine investment in the people and outcomes she works with.

Simone advises across a range of industries, including construction, property development, and natural resources. She is particularly interested in how capital, governance, and people intersect over time, especially in businesses preparing for scale, exit, or long-term institutional ownership.

Her corporate practice is built on a broad early foundation. Simone trained across intellectual property, litigation, and wills and estate matters, giving her grounding in both contentious and non-contentious work, before stepping away to complete a Master's in Business Administration, which included time on the investor side of the table at a venture capital firm. That exposure continues to shape how she structures and evaluates deals, letting her assess them as her clients do.

English, Chinese (Mandarin), Malay, Cantonese

Barrister-at-Law, Inner Temple (2016)

Advocate and Solicitor, High Court of Malaya (2017)

LLB (Hons) Law, University of Sheffield (2015)

Bar Professional Training Course, City University London (2016)

MBA, University of Manchester (2024)

Simone is endlessly curious about people, what brings them joy, what drives them, and what gives life its meaning. She is drawn to the kind of conversation that gets past small talk and is just as happy to lament the big questions as to answer them.

Outside work, Simone is a devotee of specialty coffee, good food, and travel, and unwinds with a good psychological thriller, on the page or on screen, though never horror. Most of her time off is shared with her corgi, William, who can occasionally be heard supervising her after-hours calls.