Susan Wong
Asia-Pacific Guide 2025
Eminent Practitioners : Banking & Finance: Domestic
Eminent Practitioners
About
Provided by Susan Wong
Practice Areas
An eminent legal practitioner, Susan Wong has more than 38 years of experience in banking and finance work. She has extensive expertise in a wide range of local and international loan and other debt-related transactions including project, acquisition, real estate, investment and business trusts, sustainability, private equity, asset and asset-backed and Islamic financing, syndicated and club loans, cross-border financing, risk and funded sub-participations, securitisations, sale of loans and receivables and security arrangements and documentation. Having headed the firm’s Banking & Finance practice for almost two decades and helmed the Financial Services Group (which encompasses four practices, namely Asset Management & Funds, Banking & Finance, Capital Markets and Financial Services Regulatory) for over a decade, Susan continues to be involved in landmark and high-profile corporate and financing transactions.
Professional Memberships
She is an editorial board member of the Butterworths Journal of International Banking & Financial Law and a member of the Advisory Panel of the Centre for Banking & Finance Law at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore.
Publications
- Chambers Global Practice Guide – Banking & Finance Trends and Developments in Singapore, 2023
- Chambers Global Practice Guide – Acquisition Finance Trends and Developments in Singapore, 2023
- Chambers Global Practice Guide – Banking & Finance, Singapore Chapter 2018 - 2020
- IFLR Cross-Border Financing Report – Singapore Chapter 2013 and 2014
- Getting the Deal Through – Real Estate, Singapore Chapter 2012 and 2013
Chambers Review
Asia-Pacific
Susan Wong heads the banking and finance practice, and is renowned for her banking expertise in areas including acquisition and real estate financing. She further assists clients with matters related to interest rate benchmark transitions.
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Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Susan Wong is at the pinnacle of her field. Her sheer experience and commercial acumen are some of the reasons why she is so highly sought after."
"Susan Wong is a rare lawyer with strong drafting capabilities yet able to negotiate effectively around commercial issues. She is in total control."
"Susan Wong is at the pinnacle of her field. Her sheer experience and commercial acumen are some of the reasons why she is so highly sought after."
"Susan Wong is a rare lawyer with strong drafting capabilities yet able to negotiate effectively around commercial issues. She is in total control."