Carey Olsen Singapore LLP

Dispute Resolution and Litigation; Restructuring and Insolvency

Amelia is counsel in Carey Olsen's litigation, insolvency and restructuring practice in Singapore. She has a broad range of experience in commercial litigation, with a focus on complex, multi-jurisdictional shareholder / director litigation, corporate disputes, fraud and asset tracing and cross-border insolvency and restructuring matters.

Amelia also has significant experience in seeking urgent interlocutory relief for clients, including freezing orders and injunctions, and enforcement matters and has represented clients in the High Court, Court of Appeal and the Privy Council. She regularly advises listed companies and financial institutions, high net worth individuals and insolvency practitioners in the region.

Amelia has been listed as a Leading Associate (previously known as Rising Star) consecutively by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific in 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. She has also been named in the Asian Legal Business (ALB) Offshore Client Choice List in 2024 and 2025. She was also selected to participate in the inaugural Singapore Leaders Network fellowship programme (SGLN), an initiative led by the Singapore government, the Singapore Economic Development Board, and supported by the private sector. Amelia is one of the five global finalists (and only recipient in Asia) of the IWIRC Rising Star Award in 2022 and is also part of the International Insolvency Institute's (III) highly prestigious and successful NextGen Leadership Program Class XII (2023). Clients speak highly of Amelia, describing her as an "outstanding individual within Carey Olsen" and who is "technically solid, business savvy and always responsive".

Amelia practised in another leading offshore firm in Singapore before joining Carey Olsen in 2019.

Prior to moving offshore in 2018, Amelia was an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore and practised at one of the largest leading Singapore law firm, where she gained extensive experience in international arbitration, corporate and shareholder litigation, trade and commodities disputes and insolvency related matters.

Amelia is admitted as a solicitor of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (BVI) and is enrolled as a Registered Associate in the Supreme Court of Bermuda. She is also admitted as a solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales (non-practising).

Amelia is fluent in English and Mandarin.

Amelia is an active member of the International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC) and was most recently Chair of the IWIRC Singapore Network (2024). She is also one of the first offshore law practitioners to be approved as a member of the Insolvency Practitioners Association of Singapore (IPAS) and an active member of INSOL.