Liane Lim

Liane Lim is a Partner in the Corporate Department at Lee & Lee in Singapore. Her practice focuses on Mergers and Acquisitions, covering both public and private M&A.

In addition, she advises on (i) private equity issues, corporate restructuring and joint ventures; (ii) standard debt transactions, including debt restructuring, loan agreements, guarantees and standard security documents; (iii) equity capital market transactions; (iv) general regulatory issues under the Securities and Futures Act and the rules of the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited; and (v) other general corporate and commercial matters.

Liane graduated from the National University of Singapore with an LLB (Hons) degree in 2011. She joined Lee & Lee as an associate in 2012 and was made a partner in 2017. She has been named in the 2017 ranking by the Singapore Business Review of "Singapore's most promising legal luminaries aged 40 and under," where the 20 lawyers in the list were selected from hundreds of nominees based on thought leadership, influence, and showing promise of favourable development and future success in the legal field.

Her notable public takeover transactions include representing Blackstone as Singapore counsel in the proposed privatisation of Soilbuild Business Space REIT by way of a scheme of arrangement; representing Lippo-linked Gentle Care Pte. Ltd. in the successful mandatory conditional cash offer for Healthway Medical Corporation Limited; representing Blackstone as Singapore counsel in the bid for Global Logistic Properties Limited; representing Biosensors International Ltd in the S$1.14 billion privatisation by an amalgamation with its controlling shareholder, the first takeover by amalgamation with a primary listing in Singapore; representing Golden Star Group Limited in the mandatory offer for Novo Group Ltd., a company with dual primary listings in Singapore and Hong Kong; representing Wheelock Properties (Singapore) Limited in a joint venture with Ong Beng Seng in the S$1.76 billion mandatory general offer for the shares of Hotel Properties Ltd; representing certain Eu family members in the voluntary conditional cash offer for Eu Yan Sang International Ltd; representing Wheelock Properties (Singapore) Limited in its selective capital reduction exercise to completely privatise the company; representing Isetan (Singapore) Ltd in the proposed privatisation by its Japan parent company, Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings Ltd., through a scheme of arrangement; and representing Dyna-Mac Holdings Ltd. in the takeover offer by Hanwha Ocean SG Holdings Pte. Ltd. through a voluntary conditional cash offer.

She is a member of the Lee & Lee Sustainability Committee.