Mayer Brown has added Janelene Chen as a partner the firm’s Banking & Finance practice in Singapore, where she will focus on trade and other structured finance transactions. She joins from Norton Rose Fulbright, where she was a partner. Chen has extensive experience advising financial institutions and corporate borrowers on a wide range of cross-border financings, notably trade finance (including receivables finance, payables finance and commodities finance), event-driven financing, structured lending (such as asset-based lending), and general banking. Most of her cross-border transactions have involved Singapore, Indonesia, Indochina, Hong Kong and Mainland China. Chen is dual qualified in English and Singapore law, giving the firm the flexibility to assist clients in the Southeast Asia region, where transactions are governed by either English or Singapore law.
