Melissa advises and defends insurers across a range of product lines including D&O, Financial Institutions, Professional Indemnity, Fidelity & Crime, Cyber and Product Recall. She also advises insurers on policy drafting in these product lines.
She also specialises in cyber incident response, advising on data protection issues and obligations, notifications to regulators and contractual parties, and other regulatory and strategic matters arising from cyber incidents. She has managed several large-scale and complex cyber incidents in the region for cyber incidents, including those involving ransomware, business email compromise and phishing.
She started her practice in medical malpractice litigation where she has advised and defended medical professionals (including doctors, nurses, allied healthcare workers) and healthcare institutions (including public and private hospitals and clinics).
Melissa graduated from the Singapore Management University in 2021 and was admitted to the Singapore Bar as an Advocate and Solicitor in 2022.
- Advising insurers/reinsurers on coverage issues arising from prominent D&O claims in Singapore, Malaysia and Australia
- Advised reinsurers on coverage issues in relation to large-scale fraudulent loan financings in Brunei.
- Advised reinsurers on a claim under a Professional Indemnity policy relating to high-profile proceedings in Mauritius against a director.
- Advised reinsurers on c. USD 100 million product recall matters involving electric vehicles in Korea and the United States.
- Advised reinsurers in a high-profile clinical negligence matter in Singapore involving systemic misdiagnoses of cancer.
- Advised reinsurers on an investment manager claim made in India involving various prominent financial institutions.
- Cyber breach coach/legal counsel for a ransomware attack in Singapore involving an organisation designated as a Critical Information Infrastructure (CII). The incident led to access and exfiltration of data and various regulatory authorities in Singapore were involved. Melissa also advised in relation to consequential third party claims.
- Cyber breach coach/legal counsel for a cyber incident involving a healthcare organisation in Singapore. The incident involved access and exfiltration of sensitive personal information and required close involvement with regulatory authorities.
- Cyber breach coach for a cyber incident involving a healthcare organisation in Malaysia. Melissa provided strategic advice in relation to managing the ransomware attack which involved access and exfiltration of data of a large amount of data.
- Professional Liability
- Cyber, Data and Technology
- Directors and Officers Liability
- Fidelity and Crime
- Health
- Management Liability
- Financial institutions and services
- Technology and Cyber
- Healthcare and Life Sciences
- Law Society of Singapore
- Professional Liability Underwriting Society
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