Immediately prior to joining academia in 2005, she was a partner at Allen & Gledhill, Financial Services Department, 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. She has received research awards and fellowships for her publication record, including the Lee Kuan Yew Fellowship for Research Excellence (2015-2016), the Lee Kong Chian Fellowship (2015-2017), Hauser Global Research Fellowship by NYU (2008), and the Lee Foundation Fellowship for Research Excellence (2007)