Clarissa’s practice encompasses a wide spectrum of corporate and commercial matters, with particular emphasis on private wealth, corporate investigations, and private debt and equity financing. She also brings significant experience in advising high-net-worth individuals on both contentious and non-contentious issues, including wealth preservation, trusts establishment, and representation in complex family disputes such as contentious divorces, custody battles, and international relocation matters.

Leveraging her unique exposure to both corporate law and dispute resolution, Clarissa is adept at guiding clients through the intricate intersection of personal and financial considerations in family law, as well as protecting their wealth well before any dispute arises. Her formative background allows her to provide holistic and strategic solutions tailored to her client’s needs, regardless of whether they are commercial parties or private clients.

Experience highlights:

Private Wealth

• Advised a Forbes list client on various personal and commercial legal issues and providing legal advice for the underlying businesses which is majority-owned by the client’s family.
• Advised family offices on their intended investments into both Singapore based and overseas funds.
• Advised on corporate structures and regulatory requirements involving family trusts, purpose trusts, private trust companies and employee benefit trusts.
• Drafting and negotiating prenuptial, postnuptial, financial arrangement and parenting agreements for UHNW individuals, and successfully litigating such arrangements and agreements as well.

Corporate Advisory and Investigations

• Advised a company with several affiliated entities in the Southeast Asian region in developing and implementing strategic measures to retain control over key subsidiaries and maintain shareholder support during a challenging period which saw the company needing to navigate the complexities of an ongoing M&A deal, raise debt capital and terminate a key executive for employee misconduct. The complex matter comprised of an interlocking set of legal issues which generated a tide of civil and criminal litigation proceedings both locally and abroad.
• Advised a leading homeland and infocomm security solutions provider in its participation in a multi-year sovereign cloud initiative which involves Singapore’s Home Team Science and Technology Agency and a Fortune 500 company, including negotiating and drafting bespoke definitive agreements.
• Advised a listed multinational corporation on internal fraud and corporate misconduct investigations, crisis management, and making representations to and responding to enforcement agencies.
• Advised a listed multinational corporation on certain business activities potentially being the subject of the applicable sanctions regimes in countries including Singapore.

Private Debt / Equity Financing

• Advised an Indonesian solar energy solution provider on a joint venture in Vietnam focused on developing sustainability infrastructure, with an emphasis on delivering solar-as-a-service solutions.
• Advised Export Development Canada, the Canadian government’s export credit agency, in relation to its US$100m financing facilities to Neo Performance Materials, a global chemical company, to fund the construction of a rare earth magnet facility in Estonia.

Clarissa’s multi-disciplinary background and comprehensive approach allows her to tailor balanced and workable solutions which best serves the interests of her clients.