Yi Wayn Ng

Ng Yi Wayn is Head of the firm’s M&A practice and specialises in Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestments (M&A) as well as Private Equity (PE) and Venture Capital (VC) financing transactions. She has represented global and regional clients across various industries, including the TMC (Technology, Media and Communication), Logistics, Food & Beverage, Education and Healthcare sectors.

Yi Wayn regularly advises clients on complex cross-border acquisitions and disposals, investments, restructurings and equity capital market transactions in Asia, United Kingdom, Europe and the United States. She advises on transactions of various sizes - from seed investments up to deals with transactional value of approximately US$300 million.

Yi Wayn is also a contributing author for the Singapore chapter of the International Comparative Legal Guide – Private Equity 2021 and Lexis®Library’s International Corporate Procedures for Singapore (2017 to 2020).

Clients have praised her for her “outstanding representation”, “highly efficient support”, “outstanding communication skills” and responsiveness that were “beyond expectation”. She is also described as one who is “reliable, trustworthy and straight forward”, “honourable and knowledgeable” and “always on top of the game”.

Yi Wayn is recognized as one of “Singapore’s 20 most promising legal luminaries aged 40-and-under”by the Singapore Business Review.

• Acted for a leading provider of high-tech manufacturing solutions for the semiconductor and electronics industry, in its sale to a leading Marketing Expansion Service provider listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange, for an undisclosed amount.
• Acted for Indonesia’s fastest growing New Retail F&B chain, in its US$96 million Series C round, giving the company a valuation of more than US$1 billion and placing it as the first New Retail F&B unicorn from Southeast Asia.
• Acted for a leader in digital trust & safety products, empowering digital disruptors to Fortune 500 companies to unlock new revenue without risks, in its acquisition of a pioneer in passwordless and multi-factor authentication, for an undisclosed amount.
• Acted for a New York-based venture capital firm, as the lead investor in the US$2.2 million funding round for a Philippines-based Buy Now Pay Later startup for emerging markets, and their investment as lead investor in the US$2.7 million Series A funding round for a Singapore-based supply chain e-commerce solution for maritime and offshore businesses.
• Acted for a digital-native technology service provider that accelerates growth and bolsters competitive advantage for Fortune 1000 companies, in its acquisition of a global consultancy focused on digital commerce, for an undisclosed amount.

• The Law Society of Singapore
• Singapore Academy of Law

• LLB (Hons), The University of Manchester