Banking & Finance
AVANT LAW LLC
About Our Firm
GOOGLE Reviews
5 Stars
Avant Law LLC was founded by partners who were formerly from the Singapore big four law firms and from some of Malaysia’s best law firms. Our corporate lawyers in Singapore are dual-qualified in both Singapore and Malaysia. We specialize in corporate law, financing, capital markets, probate, and funds.
As legal counsels, our mission is to help clients to succeed and to achieve their potential so that they in turn can help others and leave a positive impact on their communities.
Banking and Finance
We offer a wide range of legal services to borrowers, non-bank lenders and financial institutions. Whether you are looking for legal advice on routine daily issues to transactions involving different debt financing instruments, we will work with you to ensure that your interests are protected.
Corporate Finance
In corporate and financing transactions, Avant Law serves as a trusted advisor to private equity, venture capital firms, major investors, and financial institutions. We assist in securing financing through convertible bonds, loans, and equity investments, offering guidance throughout funding rounds and due diligence processes. Our experience spans various sectors, including digital financing platforms, e-commerce, and multimedia networks. We strive to provide tailored legal solutions to support your growth and expansion strategies. Our banking lawyers focus on truly understanding your business needs, using our knowledge and expertise to anticipate challenges and ensure smooth transactions. We are dedicated to your company’s success and look forward to partnering with you.
What Our Clients Think
Our clients know us as the “Law Firm with Personal Touch”.
As a testament to our commitment to work hard and our ability to accurate and thorough legal advice, we have received the following feedback from clients:
- “Professional with Strong Personal Touch”
- “Responsive, and empathetic. Compared to other past lawyers I have worked with, she really takes time to understand the situation…”
- “10 out of 10. Reliable”
- “Impressed with their Professionalism and Willingness to go the extra mile for their clients”
- “Speed and Thoroughness”
- “Honest, Straightforward with good clarity”
- “… we highly recommend the team at Avant Law LLC for business legal services”
What We Do
The majority of our lawyers have been in legal practice for more than 20 years. We are lawyers with a proven track record and strive to remain the trusted business partner to our clients.
Please visit our website at https://www.avantlawllc.com/ for more details on our capabilities.
Our Team Leader
Contact:
Phone: +65 6592 5268
Mobile: +65 8186 6938
E-mail: ysl@avantlawllc.com
Yap Siew Ling
Qualification:
LL.B (Hons), University of Bristol, United Kingdom (1997)
LL.M in International Economics Law, University of Warwick, United Kingdom (1999)
Year of Admission:
Admitted to the Malaysian Bar in 2001
Admitted to the Singapore Bar in 2009
Practice Areas
- Financing, Fund Raising
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Corporate and Commercial
- Funds
About Siew Ling
Siew Ling is dual-qualified and advises on the laws of Singapore and Malaysia. She specializes in private equity fundraisings, VCCs and IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, and banking.
Siew Ling co-founded Avant Law LLC in 2018. She left Drew & Napier as a director after working there for about 9 years. Siew Ling began her practice in Malaysia in 2001 at Skrine and later at Zaid Ibrahim & Co. with an accumulated legal practice of 8 years in Malaysia.
She has advised clients on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, and businesses from various industries, from setting up to eventual listings on different stock exchanges.
She is able to provide personalized solutions to legal problems and to present various legal matters related to commercial legislation in an easy-to-understand manner.
She received honourable mention in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2016 for capital markets.
Some of matters she handles include:
Corporate & Financing Transactions
- Acted as the Singapore legal adviser to a venture capital firm to finance and invest in a group of companies that is in the business of YouTube certified multi-channel network in Asia, with presences in Thailand, Malaysia, Japan, British Virgin Island, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, China and Indonesia.
- Acted as the Singapore legal adviser to a venture capital firm to finance and invest in a group of companies that is a global creative ecosystem that provides royalty free images and stock photography, with presences in Cayman Islands, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Japan, United States, China, Germany and Netherlands.
- Acted as the Singapore legal adviser to a major investor in two (2) separate funding rounds pertaining to the subscription of shares in a Singapore entity that operates the business of selling gourmet snacks.
- Acted as the Singapore legal adviser to a leading developer and operator in China, a listed company on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong to obtain financing for an aggregate principal amount of approximately S$174 million by issuing junior and senior convertible bonds and on the joint venture involving our client and a Mainboard listed company in Singapore.
- Acted as the Singapore legal adviser to the venture capital firm to finance and invest in a Singapore company that operates the largest digital financing platform for SMEs with headquarters in Singapore.
- Acted as the Singapore legal adviser to a Hong Kong investment firm, a Chinese state-owned enterprise in relation to a loan and charge transaction amounting to US$110 million.
Please visit the website at https://www.avantlawllc.com for more details.
- Law Firm Address
- 10 Anson Road, #10-02 International Plaza,
- Singapore 079903
- Contact Details
- +65 6926 9668
- ysl@avantlawllc.com
- Cantonese, Hainanese, Hakka/ Khek, Malay, Mandarin
- Website
