Lai Foong Chan has a broad spectrum of legal experience, having started off her career as a general practitioner doing real estate, solicitor's work, and civil and criminal law advocacy. Her practice is now focused on non-contentious work providing advice on a range of commercial and corporate transactions matters, mergers, and acquisitions, drafting of banking and loan documentation, landlord and tenancy work, and asset finance work. Her particular interest is still real estate law, and she has assisted clients in complex sales and purchases of properties in Singapore, due diligence, property development, en-bloc collective sales, restructuring, refinancing of assets, wills and probate law. In the private wealth area, she has worked with high net worth clients on their family succession planning, asset protection and preservation, philanthropic endeavors, and settlement of property and trust creation.
She currently has a portfolio of clients in the private, quasi-government, and government sector and across a diverse range of industries such as financial services and social and welfare work. She is also retained in the panel of lawyers on many of the Singapore branches of foreign banks, and advises them on a myriad of Singapore law-related issues including banking, commercial contracts, regulatory compliance, personal data policies, and personal law.
She has been a facilitator and trainer for the Singapore Institute of Legal Education (SILE) for many years, and has also been involved in the revision of the current version of the Real Estate syllabus for SILE. She is a committee member of Conveyancing Practice and Sports committee of the Law Society of Singapore. She is also a member of the Audit & Risk Compliance Committee of the Community Foundation of Singapore, which is a non-profit organization that encourages and enables philanthropy in Singapore and matching donor’s interests through their charitable funds.
