Louise Tan

Louise Tan is a Senior Partner and Head of the Banking and Finance Department at Lee & Lee in Singapore. Her practice focuses on Banking and Finance Law, with more than 40 years of legal experience.

Louise worked as an Assistant Official Assignee, Assistant Official Receiver and Assistant Public Trustee with the Legal Service from 1979 to 1981 and as a Legal Assistant with Lee & Lee from 1981 to 1986. In 1986, she joined another major law firm where she was a senior partner in the Banking, Finance and Property Department. Louise returned to Lee & Lee in November 2005 and heads the Banking and Finance Department.

Her expertise includes banking and financial services, real estate, property acquisition and development financing, REIT financing and share acquisition financing.

Her case highlights include acting for the borrower, guarantors and subordinated creditors in the grant of syndicated facilities amounting to S$931,573,000 through conventional and Islamic financing for the en-bloc purchase of a 99-year leasehold condominium development comprising 446 strata sub-divided units, completed in less than one month; acting for two local banks and a foreign bank in three separate transactions for an aggregate amount of SGD350 million in relation to the partial financing of an acquisition of a commercial property by a subsidiary of a REIT in Singapore; and acting for the original mandated lead arrangers with respect to the securities for the facilities amounting to SGD4.2 billion to Resorts World at Sentosa Pte. Ltd. for the development of Singapore's second Integrated Resort.

She also acted for the Notes Trustee and Notes Security Trustee in relation to a SGD1 billion Secured Multicurrency Medium Term Note Programme, in the redemption of all Series 001 Notes amounting to a principal amount of SGD400 million, and the amendment and/or refreshment of the existing Notes Trust Deed and 7 Notes security documents to follow the terms of a new SGD1.2 billion green loan granted to the Issuer by a syndicate of lenders.

Louise holds an LLB from the National University of Singapore (1979) and was admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore in 1981. She is recognised by Chambers and Partners, with clients describing her as "very commercial in her approach," "very attentive and careful with her work," and "an extremely experienced banking lawyer who keeps in touch with new banking rules."