Ming-li Tan

Practice Areas

Capital Markets

Corporate

Mergers and Acquisitions

Career

Practice Focus

Ming-li’s expertise is in the practice area of corporate and securities law where she is involved in advising on capital market transactions and related corporate finance work, mergers and acquisitions advising on intervention and statutory schemes for distressed companies, debt and share restructuring schemes, and negotiations with creditors and other stakeholders, as well as handling the transactional aspects of the schemes. Ming-li regularly advises on financial and securities regulation, corporate governance and regulatory compliance matters. She also assists her corporate clientele on the setting up of corporate and trust structures. She was actively involved in corporate and commercial litigation in her early years of practice with specific experience in intellectual property and arbitration matters.

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Experience and Credentials

Ming-li has over 28 years of experience in helping local and foreign clients on their corporate and securities transactions in Malaysia and overseas and has advised on many notable capital market transactions, debt restructuring schemes, mergers and acquisitions and equity fund raising over the years. She is consistently recognised by independent publications as a leading individual for her corporate and capital markets work and was named as Malaysia’s Top 100 Lawyers of 2021 by Asia Business Law Journal in 2021. She is recognised in IFLR 1000 as a Highly Regarded Lawyer, ranked as a Leading Lawyer in Corporate/M&A in Asialaw Leading Lawyers and named as a Leading Lawyer in Corporate/Commercial: Equity Capital Markets in Chambers Asia Pacific from 2019 to 2022.

Professional Memberships

Aside from her corporate and capital market practice, Ming-li also serves as a member of the Disciplinary Committee of the Advocates & Solicitors’ Disciplinary Board of Malaysia.

Publications

She is the co-author of the book, “Capital Markets: Discipline & Misconduct” with Dato’ Loh Siew Cheang and Evelyn Chan, which is published by LexisNexis (2019).