CONSTRUCTION AND ENERGY LAW

Rebecca joined the legal profession in 1996 and started her legal practice with Michael Khoo & Partners, assisting an arbitrator in writing up the award for the Marina Square Arbitration. Before going in-house with major listed and multinational companies, and a local energy statutory board, where she specialised in construction and energy work, Rebecca had been active in construction litigation and arbitration with top local and international law firms. Rebecca’s expertise in non-contentious construction matters range from all kinds of bespoke and standard contracts for build, design and build, BOOT, EPC or Turnkey projects. Rebecca’s construction disputes resolution expertise ranges from disputes involving the construction and repurposing of mining smelter plants, to the construction of commercial logistics warehouses. In her last stint with a wholly-owned subsidiary of a statutory board, Rebecca drafted and negotiated the contract for the EPC construction of an OCGT Power Plant in Jurong Island in Singapore as well as the Long-Term Service Contract of 15 years for the maintenance and servicing of the Power Plant.

CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL

Rebecca is an experienced commercial, corporate, and transactional counsel who works effectively with clients as a business partner, leveraging risk with mitigatory measures. Rebecca has acted as corporate counsel for a number of listed and private companies, in shareholder disputes, construction disputes as well as in major M&A deals, as well as in listing and de-listing and de-merger matters.

As a commercially savvy in-house lawyer with over 20 years of experience, Rebecca has cut deals all across Asia Pacific (including India, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, China and Hong Kong), over a wide range of industries, and is able to assist clients to engage in deals in a balanced manner, based on a pro-active assessment and management of legal and commercial risk.

FAMILY LAW

Rebecca has considerable experience in Family Law, dealing with issues of divorce, division of matrimonial assets, custody and adoption, as well as care & control of children, maintenance and personal protection orders.

CONTENTIOUS WILL AND INHERITANCE DISPUTES

Rebecca has acted as counsel for a number of contested high net-worth wills and inheritance disputes.

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

Native fluency in spoken and written English

Conversant in spoken Cantonese and Mandarin​

EMAIL

[email protected]

LINKEDIN

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-yeo-8802a15/