Ms Stephanie Magnus > Baker McKenzie Wong & Leow > Singapore, Singapore > Lawyer Profile
Baker McKenzie Wong & Leow Offices
8 MARINA BOULEVARD
#05-01 MARINA BAY FINANCIAL CENTRE TOWER 1
SINGAPORE 018981
Singapore
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Ms Stephanie Magnus
Work Department
Finance & Projects
Position
Principal
Career
Stephanie Magnus heads up the Financial Services Regulatory and FinTech Practices in Singapore. She is ranked as a Leading Individual for Financial Services Regulatory: Local Firms in Singapore by Legal 500 Asia Pacific since 2016. She has also been named by the Financial Times as one of the Top 10 Innovative Lawyers in Asia Pacific for 2022 and the APAC Financial Regulation Lawyer of the Year 2023 with the Euromoney Women in Business Law Awards.
Stephanie regularly advises international banks, capital markets intermediaries, fund managers, insurance companies, fintechs and other financial institutions on financial services compliance and regulatory matters, and works closely with her clients to navigate these matters.
She has significant experience in compliance, and focuses on regulatory issues, particularly in the financial services, insurance and commodities sectors. Her practice also includes mergers and acquisitions in the financial services sector. She also actively helps financial services clients in merger and acquisition transactions, particularly where these transactions involve the acquisition or sale of regulated financial services companies.
In the fintech space, Stephanie has been involved in contributing to policy formation, and regularly advises on fintech models including equity and debt crowdfunding, digital wealth platforms, payment service models, consumer credit models, e-wallets, digitalisation, tokenisation and digital assets. She has been recognised as being “deeply involved” in the discussions around payments legislation along with being “very good at marrying traditional financial advice with innovation.”
Languages
Chinese, English, French
Lawyer Rankings
Singapore > Fintech and financial services regulatory: local firms
(Leading partners)The ‘extremely helpful’ team at Baker McKenzie Wong & Leow, praised for its ability to provide clients with ‘practical legal advice’, attracts an impressive roster of national and international banking clients, leading fund managers, and fintechs. The team excels in a broad range of fintech mandates, with particular strength in payments, data protection, privacy, and cybersecurity. Practice head Stephanie Magnus frequently advises on fintech models such as equity and debt crowdfunding, digital advisory platforms, payment service models and tokenisation. Eunice Tan specialises in regulatory, legal and compliance matters in the financial services and fintech models, and Ying Yi Liew left the firm in Feb 2025.
Singapore > Insurance: local firms
(Leading partners)Baker McKenzie Wong & Leow’s financial services and insurance team is well-versed in handling both disputes and advisory matters, standing out for its expertise in regulatory and corporate affairs, particularly in mergers, acquisitions, and restructurings, as well as risk management, crisis response, and cybercrime, including data privacy. The team is jointly led by Stephanie Magnus and Nandakumar Ponniya. Magnus has extensive experience in local and cross-border insurance matters, and Ponniya is noted for his focus on contentious insurance matters. Darren Yang is well-placed to assist all types of financial institutions, insurance companies, fintech companies and start-ups. Ying Yi Liew departed the practice in February 2025.
Lawyer Rankings
- Fintech and financial services regulatory: local firms Singapore
- Leading partners Singapore > Insurance: local firms
- Leading partners Singapore > Fintech and financial services regulatory: local firms
- Insurance: local firms Singapore
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Fintech and financial services regulatory: local firms
- Intellectual property: Local firms
- Investment funds: foreign firms
- Labour and employment: local firms
- Banking and finance: local firms
- Private wealth and family law – local firms
- Tax: local firms
Firm Rankings
- Antitrust and competition: local firms
- Banking and finance: foreign firms
- Construction: Local firms
- Corporate and M&A: foreign firms
- Corporate and M&A: local firms
- Data protection and cyber security: Local firms
- Dispute resolution
- Energy: foreign firms
- Insurance: local firms
- International arbitration
- Labour and employment: foreign firms
- Projects: foreign firms
- Real estate: local firms
- Restructuring and insolvency: foreign firms
- TMT: local firms
- Capital markets: equity and debt: foreign firms