Helen TEP is a partner in our litigation, insolvency and restructuring practice in Singapore. She specialises in complex commercial litigation, shareholder disputes, estate and private clients related disputes, fraud and investigatory cases and insolvency and restructuring matters. She is a native speaker of Cantonese and Mandarin and fluent in English.

Helen has extensive experiences advising clients on cross-border litigation and handling high value disputes, covering a broad range of sectors, including financial services, energy and resources, insurance and high net-worth individuals.

Helen has been listed as a Next Generation Partner in The Legal 500 Asia 2024 Guide. She has also been recognised as a Rising Star in China Business Law Journal's 2023-24 A-List of elite private practice lawyers in the Chinese market. She has also been named in the Asian Legal Business (ALB) Asia Super 50 Disputes Lawyers (2024), Offshore Client Choice List (2023 and 2024), Top 10 Offshore Litigators (2023 and 2024) and Asia 40 under 40 List (2023).

Clients have praised Helen for being "extremely personable, super responsive and hard working" and for her "excellent legal knowledge and commercial sense."

As an active supporter of advancing women's interest in the legal community, Helen is a committee member on the IWIRC Diversity Inclusion and Belonging Committee. She is also the Asia lead of Carey Olsen's Women's Network which aims to facilitate meaningful collaboration and support amongst women across the firm and provide a framework to help women at Carey Olsen build on their talents and achieve their potential. Helen is also the Vice President of Women in Law Singapore (WILSG), a community open to all female members of the legal industry. She is a full TEP member of The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) and an elected member of the STEP Contentious Trusts and Estates Special Interest Group Steering Committee. She is also an appointed member of the Singapore International Mediation Centre Specialist Mediator Panel in Singapore.

王怡佶律师 (Helen Wang) TEP现任凯瑞奥信争议解决和诉讼业务的合伙人。她擅长处理复杂的商业诉讼、股东争议、遗产和私人客户相关的争议、欺诈调查以及破产重组事宜。王律师的母语为普通话和广东话，也掌握流利的英文。

王律师在为客户提供跨境诉讼咨询和处理高价值的争议方面拥有丰富的经验，她的客户来自不同行业领域，包括银行与金融服务、能源与资源、保险和高净值人士等。

王律师的执业实力倍受认可，并获选为《法律500强》（The Legal 500）2024年度亚太地区 “明日之星（Next Generation Partner）”。王律师也获《商法》杂志评选为其著名的“A-List 法律精英” 2023-24年度名单中的“律师新星”，被公认为是中国市场的精英国际律师。王律师也入选了《亚洲法律杂志》（Asian Legal Business）2024年度的“50 佳争议解决律师”名单、2023和2024年度的“离岸客户选择名单”、2023和2024年度的“最佳离岸诉讼律师”及“亚洲40 位 40 岁以下杰出律师名单”。

客户称赞她“态度可亲、反应迅速、工作勤恳”，并“具备超凡的法律知识和商业见识”。

王律师是IWIRC国际女性破产重组协会多元与包容委员会的成员，也在亚洲带领凯瑞奥信的女性网络，致力于促进凯瑞奥信女性员工之间的切实协作。同时，王律师还是新加坡法律界女性协会 (Women in Law Singapore (WILSG)) 的副主席。王律师是信托与遗产执业者协会（The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners）（STEP）的正式会员及STEP信托及遗产争议指导委员会的成员，也是新加坡国际调解中心新加坡区专家调解员小组的指定成员之一。

Career

Before moving offshore, Helen trained and qualified as a litigator of a magic circle firm and practised there for over a decade. Helen had worked in Hong Kong, Singapore and London office of Clifford Chance, advising on various complex and high profile disputes.

Helen holds a first class honours law degree awarded by The University of Hong Kong and Bachelor of Civil Law awarded by University of Oxford. She is admitted in Hong Kong (also as a solicitor advocate) and England & Wales. She is also admitted as a solicitor of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (British Virgin Islands) and a registered Bermuda practitioner.

职业

在加入离岸法律业界之前，王律师在一家英国“Magic Circle”顶尖律所接受过培训、取得诉讼律师资格并执业超过十年。王律师曾就职于高伟绅律师事务所(Clifford Chance)的香港、新加坡及伦敦办公室，就各类复杂且备受关注的争议提供法律意见。

王律师持有香港大学的法学一等荣誉学位，和牛津大学"民法学士" 硕士学位。她在香港以及英格兰和威尔士都持有律师资格。她也同时持有英属维尔京群岛以及百慕大群岛执业律师资格。

Advises on

业务领域

Relevant experience

Acting for a Cayman Islands Listco with a market cap in excess of USD1 billion in a long-drawn shareholder dispute.
Acting for shareholders of the Cayman holdco of a multimillion dollar renewable energy business in a contentious just and equitable winding up petition in the Cayman Islands Courts.
Acting for a number of limited partners of a Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership in an action before the Cayman Islands Courts for a winding up of the partnership on the just and equitable ground.

Acting for a minority shareholder in a power plant business in winding up proceedings in the courts of the BVI, which involve multiple proceedings across different jurisdictions and consideration of the principles applied by the BVI Court when dealing with an application for a stay of a winding up application on the just and equitable ground pending arbitration proceedings.
Acting for a number of major creditors in the liquidation of a major cryptocurrency hedge fund
Acting for a major cryptocurrency lender in its restructuring

Awards and accolades

奖项和荣誉

王律师的执业实力倍受认可，并获选为《法律500强》（The Legal 500）2024年度亚太地区 “明日之星（Next Generation Partner）”。王律师也获《商法》杂志评选为其著名的“A-List 法律精英” 2023-24年度名单中的“律师新星”，被公认为是中国市场的精英国际律师。王律师也入选了《亚洲法律杂志》（Asian Legal Business）2024年度的“50 佳争议解决律师”名单、2023和2024年度的“离岸客户选择名单”、2023和2024年度的“最佳离岸诉讼律师10强”及“亚洲40 位 40 岁以下杰出律师名单”。