Cheah Swee Gim

Swee Gim heads the corporate and commercial department with its various corporate practice groups. She is also the partner-in-charge of the firm’s mergers and acquisition division, and manages the regional practice, including the Myanmar office. 

Her extensive knowledge of local and regional corporate, commercial and business laws, positions her to effectively represent the firm’s clients in the corporate arena. Her expertise covers investments and commercial businesses undertaken in Singapore, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and other Southeast Asian countries. Multinationals and public listed companies have sought her legal advice in cross border commercial projects which are characterized by legal complexities requiring both legal skills and in-depth understanding of the clients’ business needs and requirements. She has spearheaded numerous project teams in time-sensitive legal due diligence investigations and managed multi-jurisdictional acquisition and investment transactions. 

With close to 40 years of legal practice, Swee Gim has accumulated a substantial portfolio of professional work in the region. These include mergers and acquisitions, de-mergers, joint ventures, investments, cross border finance and lending and security transactions, corporate reorganizations and restructurings, private equity funds, equity and capital planning, debt restructuring, financing and banking transactions, securitizations and sale and purchase of businesses and undertakings. She has also drafted, reviewed and provided legal counsel on a myriad of commercial contracts and corporate issues. 

Swee Gim is also well-versed in commercial transactions where information technology plays a fundamental role. Her degree from New York University is in intellectual property studies. She has worked on technically complex agreements in the areas of trade secrets, confidential information, technological transfers and technical assistance, hardware and software licensing, source code sale, computer turnkey contracts, franchising, licensing, copyright assignment, ownership and proprietorship, confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements.

In the practice areas of General Business Law and Corporate and M&A for Myanmar, Swee Gim is recognized as a Band 1 Lawyer in Chambers and Partners, a Market Leader in IFLR1000, and an Elite Practitioner in Asialaw.

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