Senior litigation hire for Carey Olsen's Singapore office
March, 2022 - Bermuda, Bermuda
Helen specialises in a wide range of cross-jurisdictional disputes including insolvency and debt recovery actions, shareholder claims and enforcement and asset recovery.
Prior to joining Carey Olsen, she spent the past 12 years with Clifford Chance's Asia disputes practice, working in both the firm's Singapore and Hong Kong offices. Born in Shanghai, Helen is a native Mandarin and Cantonese speaker and fluent in English and Shanghainese. She was admitted a solicitor in Hong Kong in 2011 and in England and Wales in 2018.
James Noble, partner and head of litigation, insolvency and restructuring for Carey Olsen in Asia, said: "We are very pleased that Helen has joined Carey Olsen. She is a highly accomplished litigator with a great reputation in the Asia-Pacific market, particularly with Mainland Chinese clients and Mandarin speaking clients from other locations such as Malaysia, Indonesia and Taiwan.
"As we continue to expand our business in the Asia-Pacific region, Helen's strong track record in this market makes her the ideal appointment for the evolution of our litigation offering."
In 2021 Helen was a member of the Clifford Chance team that won Behavioural Matter of the Year at the Global Competition Review Awards for its work on the 'most favoured nation' investigation, where Expedia, Booking.com and Trip.com were the subject of the first-ever commitments decision issued by Hong Kong's Competition Commission in May 2020.
Her arrival at Carey Olsen brings the lawyer headcount for the firm's litigation, insolvency and restructuring practice in Singapore to eight – the most of any offshore litigation team in the jurisdiction. The practice was also recently described as 'the A-team for offshore litigation in Singapore' in the 2022 edition of The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific, with the Singapore office itself retaining its Tier One ranking.
Helen's arrival is one of several recent high-profile appointments for Carey Olsen's Singapore office following that of Rachel Yao, who will lead the firm's trusts and private wealth offering in Asia, and investment funds specialist Tom Katsaros, who joined the firm after 14 years at Maples where he was most recently head of the firm's funds and investment management team in Singapore.
