Full CV

B.C.L., University of Oxford, 1997

LL.B., National University of Singapore (First Class Honours)

Advocate and Solicitor (Singapore)

Solicitor (England & Wales)

Attorney and Counselor-at-law (New York)

Academic Position Held

Current Appointment:

Associate Professor of Law, Singapore Management University, January 2012 to Present

Academic Director, Faculty Affairs, Singapore Management University, 2012

Previous Appointments:

Assistant Professor of Law, Singapore Management University, 2005-2011

Global Research Fellow, Hauser Global Law School Program, New York University School of Law, Fall 2008 semester

Partner (2004-2005), Senior Associate (2000-2003), Allen & Gledhill

Deputy Public Prosecutor, Attorney General’s Chambers, 1999-2000

Assistant Registrar, Supreme Court, 1998-1999

Justices’ Law Clerk, Supreme Court, 1997-1998

Other Positions

Correspondent editor for Singapore and Malaysia, Company Lawyer, Sep 2011 to date.

Co-opted member, Legal and General Administration Committee, Special Needs Trust Company, August 2011 to date.

Member, Insolvency Law Review Committee chaired by Mr Lee Eng Beng SC, advising Ministry of Law on the proposed Omnibus Insolvency Bill and Singapore’s insolvency framework, 2010 to date

Member, Law Reform Committee of the Singapore Academy of Law, 2002 to date

Member, Professional Affairs Committee of the Singapore Academy of Law, 2007 to 2011

Adviser, Allen & Gledhill LLP, 2006 to 2008

Ad hoc Deputy Registrar, Subordinate Courts of Singapore, 2007

Member of the Singapore Academy of Law Strategic Planning Retreat Implementation Committee and Strategic Planning Exercise Committee, October 2005 to July 2006

Courses Taught in SMU

Business Law

Law of Mergers and Acquisitions

Corporate Law

Research Areas / Areas of Specialisation

Corporate Law

Securities Regulation

Current Projects

"Mergers and Acquisitions in Singapore: Law & Practice" (with Umakanth Varottil) (under contract, expected 2014)

Selected Book, Journal & Other Publications

Please visit http://works.bepress.com/waiyee_wan/ for a list of publications.

Wan Wai Yee (2012, forthcoming), “Unfair preference in Singapore: DBS Bank Ltd v Tam Chee Chong and another (judicial managers of Jurong Hi-Tech Industries Pte Ltd (under judicial management)) and Rabobank International, Singapore Branch v Jurong Technologies Industrial Corp Ltd (under judicial management)”, Company Lawyer

Wan Wai Yee (2012, forthcoming), "Takeovers and Countering Short-termism in Target Boardrooms", Company Lawyer

Wan Wai Yee (2012, forthcoming), "Independent Financial Advisers’ Opinions for Public Takeovers and Related Party Transactions in Singapore”, Company and Securities Law Journal

Wan Wai Yee (2012, forthcoming), “Recent Developments on Insider Trading and False Trading in Singapore: Tan Chong Koay and another v Monetary Authority of Singapore and Monetary Authority of Singapore v Lew Chee Fai Kevin”, Company Lawyer

Wan Wai Yee (2011), "Fraud, Unauthorised Transactions and Vicarious Liability in Singapore: Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (Publ), Singapore Branch v Asia Pacific Breweries (Singapore) and another appeal ", Journal of Business Law, 800

Wan Wai Yee (2011), "Lack of Authority and its Effect on Corporate Transactions with Third Parties: Thanakharn Kasikorn Thai Chamkat (Manachon) (also known as Kasikornbank Public Co Ltd) v Akai Holdings",  Journal of Business Law, 385

Wan Wai Yee (2011), "Invoking Protective Conditions to Terminate Public Mergers and Acquisitions Transactions”, Journal of Business Law, 64

Wan Wai Yee (2010), “Effecting Privatisation via a Scheme of Arrangement in Hong Kong”, 28 Company and Securities Law Journal, 152

Wan Wai Yee (2010), "The Validity of Deal Protection Devices in Negotiated Acquisition or Merger Transactions under Anglo-American Law", 10 Journal of Corporate Law Studies, 179

Wan Wai Yee (2009), “Breach of Mortgagee's Duties of Sale”, Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, 431

Wan Wai Yee (2009), "Reconsidering Personal Liability on Directors and Senior Managers for Misstatements and Non-Disclosures to the Securities Market", Journal of Corporate Law Studies, 9, 235

Wan Wai Yee (2008), "Civil Liabilities for False or Misleading Statements Made by Listed Companies to the Securities Market in Singapore", Company and Securities Law Journal, 26, 377

Wan Wai Yee (2008), "Business Crimes ", Chapter 4, Principles of Singapore Business Law (Cengage Learning, Singapore)

Wan Wai Yee (2008), "Defences to Auditors' Liability for Failure to Detect Fraud", Journal of Business Law, 362-369

Wan Wai Yee (2007), "Effecting Compulsory Acquisition via the Amalgamation Procedure in Singapore", Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, 323

Wan Wai Yee (2007), "Financial Assistance - The Case for Re-examining Section 76 of the Companies Act" 19 Singapore Academy of Law Journal 80

Wan Wai Yee (2007), “Singapore’s Insider Trading Prohibition and its Application to Take-over Transactions”, 28 Company Lawyer 120

Wan Wai Yee (2007), “The Amalgamation Procedure in Singapore”, 25 Company and Securities Law Journal 62

Wan Wai Yee (1998), “Restitution for Wrongs”, Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, 299

Wan Wai Yee (1996), “'Right of Silence’ and Drawing of Adverse Inference on the Accused’s Refusal to Testify in at Trial”, Singapore Law Review, 17, 88

Wan Wai Yee (1995), “The Exclusion of Foreign Law: Public Policy in Choice of Law Process”, Singapore Law Review, 16, 286

Wan Wai Yee (1994), “Recent Changes to the Westminster System of Government and Government Accountability”, Singapore Law Review, 15, 297