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‘Very technically strong and yet very practical’, Pamela Ng has acted on some of the largest IPOs in Asia and the world. In total, Ng, and her award-winning team, have advised on over 50 Asian IPOs, making them M&A leaders regionally. ‘Legal are at the frontend of most complex transactions,’ she explains. ‘We are able to provide lots of innovative ideas’. Ng works with a small senior level legal team, which supports the work of over 300 bankers across Northern Asia. She has also taken an active involvement in industry groups (‘in the in-house market information-sharing is very useful’.). She has also worked on drafting precedent documents to assist Morgan Stanley’s legal and the wider business teams, and it is her ambition to do similar things industry-wide. When it comes to ways outside counsel could improve, she suggests: ‘Sometimes think outside of the box. What I want some of the more quality advisors to say is not just “yes you can do this,” but “actually this solution would be better…”’. Keeping abreast with legal and commercial developments in the market is also key, she adds.