Janelene Chen

Janelene Chen is a partner in the Banking & Finance practice in Mayer Brown's Singapore office. Janelene regularly advises financial institutions, development banks, alternative financers and corporates across a broad spectrum of domestic and international finance transactions. Her practice covers all aspects of structured lending, which includes structured trade and commodities finance (such as receivables financing, payables finance, reserve base lending, asset based lending), telecoms finance, acquisition finance, cross-border real estate finance and secondary market trading.

Janelene has extensive working knowledge of Asia and has particular expertise in navigating complex legal markets in the region such as Indonesia, Myanmar and Vietnam.

Clients describe her as "a very knowledgeable and dedicated lawyer", "she is very commercial and gives a clear and concise articulation of risks, which is what we're looking for" and that “she is a top performer, she handles simultaneous deals but always meets deadlines with excellent work.”

She is dual qualified in English and Singapore law.