TAN Li Wen is a Partner in WongPartnership’s Banking & Finance Practice.

Li Wen has broad-based experience advising on a wide range of domestic and cross-border financing transactions. Her practice spans syndicated loans, club and bilateral facilities, acquisition and leveraged financing, property and development financing, and also extends to onshore–offshore financing arrangements involving complex security structures across multiple jurisdictions. In recent years, she has also been actively involved in the growing space of private credit transactions and ESG-related financing matters and is well-versed in navigating the legal and commercial considerations arising from such transactions.

In addition to her practice, Li Wen serves on the APLMA Singapore Documentation Committee. She is recognised as a "Leading Partner" in Banking & Finance by Legal 500 Asia Pacific, a "Highly Regarded" lawyer in Banking by IFLR1000: Financial & Corporate and a "Distinguished Practitioner" in Banking & Finance by asialaw. She graduated from King's College London and is admitted to the Singapore Bar.

Significant transactions that Li Wen has been involved in include advising / acting for the following:

  • Frasers Amethyst Pte. Ltd. in the S$3 billion and S$1.8 billion financings, granted by syndicates of lenders, in relation to the acquisition of Australian developer Australand Property Group ("Australand"). The acquisition of Australand was awarded "Best Singapore Deal" at the FinanceAsia Awards for Achievement 2014.
  • DBS Bank Ltd. as financier in the US$890 million financing to STATS ChipPAC Ltd. (the "Borrower"), in connection with the voluntary conditional general offer by a special purpose vehicle JCET-SC (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (the "Offeror") for all the issued and paid-up ordinary shares (excluding issued and paid-up ordinary shares held by the Borrower as treasury shares but including shares issued and paid-up upon the valid exercise or vesting of options and awards) in the capital of the Borrower, other than those already owned, controlled or agreed to be acquired by the Offeror, its related corporations and their respective nominees. The deal was named "Asset & Corporate Finance Deal of the Year" at the ALB SE Asia Law Awards 2016.
  • Cityview Place Holdings Pte. Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of City Development Limited, in the S$300 million and S$450 million financings secured over the W Singapore, Quayside Isle and units at The Residence at W Singapore located at Sentosa Cove.
  • Perennial Shenton Property Pte. Ltd., as borrower, in the refinancing of the acquisition of, and the S$3 billion green loan syndicated financing of the project development at, 8 Shenton Way. Mandated lead arrangers are DBS, OCBC, UOB, Bangkok Bank, Maybank, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, China CITIC Bank and Hong Leong Finance Limited. DBS and OCBC are also the Green Loan Advisors. This financing was also the largest syndicated green loan financing in Singapore as at the date of closing of the transaction.
  • A prominent global food and beverage brand and its subsidiaries in a S$190,000,000 financing extended by United Overseas Bank ("UOB") and Cathay United Bank, as original lenders, for the purposes of refinancing certain existing facilities. UOB was also the sole mandated lead arranger, underwriter, bookrunner and sole global coordinator as well as facility agent and security agent for the transaction. This financing also ran in parallel with a Taiwanese financing, the purpose of which was to acquire a stake in a globally renown restaurant chain.
  • Leafgreen Capital Pte. Ltd. in the acquisition financing provided by Orion Capital Asia for the strategic acquisition of a company holding a stake in Indonesia's leading mass-market bread producer.

Related Practices

  • Banking & Finance
  • Butterworths Journal of International Banking & Financial Law – "Ipso facto protection: as dead as the language and rightfully so?" 2019
  • IFLR – "ESG financing gains greater momentum in Singapore" 2025
  • Legal 500 – Focus On: Banking & Finance "Trends & Developments in Data Centre Financing in Singapore" 2026

The Legal 500: Asia Pacific – The Client’s Guide to the Asia Pacific Legal Profession

  • Banking and Finance – Singapore: Leading Partner

IFLR1000: Financial & Corporate – The Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms

  • Banking – Singapore: Highly Regarded

asialaw – The definitive guide to Asia's Leading Law Firms and Lawyers

  • Banking and finance – Singapore: Distinguished Practitioner

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King's College, London (LL.B., Hons.)

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