She graduated with an LLB (First Class Honours) from the National University of Singapore in 1996. She also holds a BCL from the University of Oxford, where she was in residence at St Edmund Hall in 1996/97. Immediately prior to joining academia in 2005, she was a partner at a local law firm, where she practised in the areas of mergers and acquisitions as well as equity capital markets. Her main areas of research are in corporate law, mergers and acquisitions and securities regulation. She has published in international peer-reviewed legal journals, including Journal of Corporate Law Studies, Journal of Business Law, Company and Securities Law Journal and Lloyds’ Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly.