YAP WAI MING

Yap Wai Ming was admitted to the Singapore bar in 1987 and Malaysian bar in 1993 after graduating with from the National University of Singapore law faculty. He worked as a Trade Officer with Singapore Trade Development Board (now International Enterprise Singapore) between 1987-1988. He practiced with Drew & Napier, Singapore as a litigation lawyer between 1988 and 1993 before branching into the corporate area. He left the partnership of Drew & Napier in 1993 to expand his legal practice in Malaysia and had worked as a partner with a Malaysian law firm specializing in corporate work since 1993. He joined the partnership of Tay & Partners, a Malaysian law firm with offices in Kuala Lumpur and Johor Bahru since 2001. Wai Ming joined Stamford Law Corporation in 2002 and continues to practice in both Malaysia and Singapore.

Wai Ming's concentrates on mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt capital markets, gaming & leisure. He listed the only two gaming stocks on the Singapore Exchange and has advised on leisure and gaming transactions primarily in ASEAN countries, China and Australia. He was also appointed as an independent director on the board of Genting International plc (listed on SGX) and Cryptologic Limited (listed on TSX, Nasdaq and LSE). Wai Ming is ranked as one of the AsiaLaw Leading Lawyers for mergers and acquisitions by Asia law & Practice, a Euromoney Institutional Investor Company.

Wai Ming lectures frequently on corporate law topics and is the author of the Malaysian chapter on "International Securities Law" published by the Center for International Legal Studies, Austria and "Civil Litigation" chapter for the Mergers and Acquisitions in China, published by Thomson Sweet & Maxwell and also a contributor to the Gaming Law Review.

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