Lawyers

Faith is ranked as a leading corporate and commercial lawyer in Singapore.

She has over 20 years’ experience helping clients successfully structure and negotiate corporate and commercial deals, completing transactions with a combined value exceeding US$30 billion.

Faith founded fsLAW and built it into a firm ranked among the top Singapore law firms for Startups & Emerging Companies by Chambers, and Corporate & M&A, Private Equity, Capital Markets and Restructuring and Insolvency deals by asialaw Profiles and IFLR1000.

She understands how businesses operate. She worked alongside other management team members to bed down a major merger and set up a legal department, as the first General Counsel of Aspen Pharmacare Australia.

She has worked in top corporate law firms in Sydney and London, including working on complex and innovative transactions requiring cutting-edge technical excellence.

Diana is a well-established legal professional with more than 20 years of experience in both legal and financial services, prior to joining fsLAW in February 2023.

She has worked in-house as Chief Counsel across Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa for 15 years. Diana’s expertise is in Funds (alternative investments – private equity, venture capital, hedge fund, real estate), Financial Services, Family Offices and Fintechs. She is also experienced in the field of insurance, investment consulting, financial advisory and wealth management.  She has assisted her clients on:

• Structuring and establishing funds;
• Applying for and obtaining licences in the various regulated activities governed under the Securities and Futures Act, Financial Advisers Act and Payments Services Act;
• Providing legal support in the establishment of family offices in Singapore.

Diana has been recognised as one of the most influential and innovative in-house counsels working in South-East Asia through Legal 500’s GC Powerlist Southeast Asia 2017 within the Commercial and Professional Services sector and again for the second time in 2019, within the Financials sector.

Diana went to Nanyang Business School (2011 – 2013) alongside with University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business (2012) and The Wharton School in University of Pennsylvania (2013), where she obtained her Master’s degree in Business Administration (Executive Program). She graduated from University of Bristol – United Kingdom with Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and was called to the Bar of England and Wales.

Kelvin is a corporate and commercial lawyer, working with fsLAW since September 2016. He has assisted clients on:

• Corporate transactions including share purchase agreements, shareholders’ agreements and share subscription agreements;
• Commercial contracts including security agreements, guarantees, consultancy agreements, facilities services agreements and deeds of assignment and novation;
• Employee share option agreements and employment law issues; and
• Corporate governance and corporate law advice including incorporation of a Singapore company and registration of a foreign branch office in Singapore.

Kelvin is a graduate of the National University of Singapore’s Faculty of Law and was called to the Singapore Bar in 2018.

Jonathan is a corporate and commercial lawyer, working with fsLAW first in 2017 and joining the firm full-time in August 2019 after a stint as a litigator. He has assisted clients on:

• Corporate transactions including fundraising through venture capital seed funding, reviewing shareholder agreements, customising constitutions, drafting legal opinions, finalising corporate documents such as resolutions, advising on selected issues such as tag-along and pre-emptive rights;
• Corporate restructuring including share buybacks and a corporate restructuring exercise;
• Commercial agreements including terms & conditions for a music event, cross-border distribution agreements, non-disclosure agreements and assignments of intellectual property rights;
• Employment agreements, employee share option plans and employment law issues in general; and
• Anti-bribery and anti-money laundering policies and KYC issues.

Jonathan graduated from the Singapore Management University School of Law with a second major in finance and was called to the Singapore Bar in 2019.