Your Needs First, Always
Who We Are
Avant Law LLC is an award-winning boutique law firm in Singapore that specialized in corporate law and legal solutions for businesses. Our firm was founded by partners who were formerly from Singapore big four law firms and from Malaysia best law firms.
In French, “Avant” means “forward” whereas the firm’s name in Chinese is “恩万” which means "deepest gratitude" (to those who have given us their unwavering support and trust). Such gratitude reminds ourselves to always place our clients' needs first.
We understand the importance of listening to you, identifying your unique needs before working with you to resolve issues and meeting your goals in a practical and efficient manner. By focusing on providing practical and innovative legal strategies, we are committed to bringing the best to you.
As good lawyers in Singapore, we have your best interests at heart.
What We Do
We take great care and pride in our work. As a Singapore corporate law firm with big firm experience, we are able to give you undivided attention, high-quality and personalized services based on your different legal needs.
As lawyers in Singapore for business, we know how important each business opportunity is to you and strive to make your legal experience a pleasant and effortless one.
Each transaction is handled with care so that you can achieve optimal results with minimal legal obstacles. Our goal is to simplify the law and share our experience with you so that you can arrive at the best-informed decision.
We also know how important time is to our clients. Without sacrificing attention to details and time in applying our minds to address various issues, we work with different professionals to bring the best to our clients.
At Avant Law LLC, our never-ending pursuit of creating a better legal experience for our clients is partnered with our quest to support our clients in finding opportunities.
What Matters To Us
Your Success. That you are able to achieve your objectives with minimal legal obstacles. We work hard to ensure that your interests are protected.
By spending time with you and working closely as a team, we make sure that you are not kept awake at night because of the legal risks or legal issues known or unknown to you. We know that during some of the most important milestones in your business, having a legal guide will make the challenging and unknown journey more pleasant.
By equipping and empowering you with the relevant legal knowledge to be explained in a simple manner, our goal is for you to make an informed decision after you have weighed the legal risks and commercial benefits.
Our Core Values
Integrity Trust Professional Ethical
Practice Area
Our Team Leader
YAP SIEW LING
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Siew Ling, a qualified lawyer in both Singapore and Malaysia, specializes in corporate and commercial works, mergers & acquisitions, and initial public offerings.
Siew Ling co-founded Avant Law LLC in 2018. She left Drew & Napier as a director after working there for about 9 years. Siew Ling began her practice in Malaysia in 2001 at Skrine and later at Zaid Ibrahim & Co. with an accumulated legal practice of 8 years in Malaysia.
Asian Legal Business Mergers & Acquisitions Rankings 2024
Avant Law has been ranked Singapore Domestic Notable Firm in the prestigious ALB Asia M&A Rankings 2024. This recognition is based on comprehensive research, including firm submissions, Thomson Reuters M&A data, interviews, editorial resources, and market suggestions, which have collectively identified and ranked the top M&A firms across Asia.
ALB speaks to our director on our cross-border transactions, strategies and technology adopted by our Firm. Please feel free to read the interview by Asia Legal Business with our Director here.
Asia Pacific Business Awards- Asia Pacific Legal Advisor 2023 -2024
The Asia Pacific Business Awards recognize outstanding achievements and leadership within the Asia-Pacific region and the awards celebrate excellence across various categories, including companies, entrepreneurs, executives, and advisors. Avant Law LLC is awarded for its outstanding performance and dedication to business and industries in the Asia-Pacific region.
Asia Pacific Business speaks to our director on latest deal trends and how to tackle risks in cross-borders mergers & acquisitions. Please feel free to read the interview by Asia Pacific Business with our Director here.
The International Business Awards® are the world's premier business awards program, and the awards are considered the "Olympics for the workplace". More than 3,600 nominations from organizations in 62 nations and territories worldwide were submitted for consideration.
We were commented for standing out in the legal industry with our specialized focus on corporate law, fundraisings, capital markets, and funds, and for demonstrating remarkable achievements in handling significant transactions.
The award is a testament that we are not just lawyers, we also understand your business.
Gold Stevie® Award in The 2024 International Business Awards®
PERSONAL DATA POLICY
At Avant Law LLC, we respect your right to privacy and our privacy policy is based on the Personal Data Protection Act (“PDPA”).
We may collect, use or disclose your personal data with your consent or deemed consent when you submit your information to us, engage our services and for reasonable causes during the ordinary course of business as permitted under the PDPA or other applicable laws and regulations.
We may disclose such personal data to our affiliated entities, third party service providers and agents, other professional advisors and consultants with whom we are dealing with on your behalf, or to the extent necessary to comply with any laws or regulations; and to any other party to whom you authorise us to disclose your personal data.
As required under the PDPA, we take reasonable care to protect personal data from unauthorised access, improper use or disclosure or accidental loss by restricting access to the information by appropriate physical and digital security measures. Any data to be destroyed will be destroyed in a manner that protects the privacy of such data.
ACCESS TO YOUR PERSONAL DATA
You may contact us to: (i) obtain personal data that we hold about you; (ii) request for your personal data to be updated or corrected; (iii) withdraw consent for us to use or disclose the personal data we hold about you. Upon the withdrawal of your consent, we will cease to collect, use or disclose your personal data unless otherwise permitted or required under the PDPA.
Please contact us at: team@avantlawllc.com and we will respond and effect any requests within a reasonable time.