Helen Wang

Practice Areas

Helen TEP is a partner in our litigation, insolvency and restructuring practice in Singapore. She specialises in complex commercial litigation, shareholder disputes, estate and private clients related disputes, fraud and investigatory cases and insolvency and restructuring matters. She is a native speaker of Cantonese and Mandarin and fluent in English.

Helen has extensive experiences advising clients on cross-border litigation and handling high value disputes, covering a broad range of sectors, including financial services, energy and resources, insurance and high net-worth individuals.

Helen has been listed as a Next Generation Partner in The Legal 500 Asia 2025 and 2024 Guides. She is also ranked in the Up and Coming category in the Chambers Asia-Pacific 2026 Guide. She has also been recognised as a Rising Star in China Business Law Journal's 2023-24 A-List of elite private practice lawyers in the Chinese market. She has also been named in the Asian Legal Business (ALB) Asia Super 50 Disputes Lawyers (2024), Offshore Client Choice List (2023 and 2024), Top 10 Offshore Litigators (2023 and 2024) and Asia 40 under 40 List (2023).

Clients have praised Helen for being "extremely personable, super responsive and hard working" and for her "excellent legal knowledge and commercial sense."

As an active supporter of advancing women's interest in the legal community, Helen is a committee member on the IWIRC Diversity Inclusion and Belonging Committee. She is also the Asia lead of Carey Olsen's Women's Network which aims to facilitate meaningful collaboration and support amongst women across the firm and provide a framework to help women at Carey Olsen build on their talents and achieve their potential. Helen is also the Vice President of Women in Law Singapore (WILSG), a community open to all female members of the legal industry.

Helen is an officer to the International Bar Association (IBA) Litigation Committee, acting as Secretary to The Hague Conference on Private International Law Subcommittee. She is also appointed as a Expert Consultant by the Guangzhou Association of Bankruptcy Administrators. She is also a full TEP member of The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) and an elected member of the STEP Contentious Trusts and Estates Special Interest Group Steering Committee. She is also an appointed member of the Singapore International Mediation Centre Specialist Mediator Panel in Singapore.

Career

Before moving offshore, Helen trained and qualified as a litigator of a magic circle firm and practised there for over a decade. Helen had worked in Hong Kong, Singapore and London office of Clifford Chance, advising on various complex and high profile disputes.

Helen holds a first class honours law degree awarded by The University of Hong Kong and Bachelor of Civil Law awarded by University of Oxford. She is admitted in Hong Kong (also as a solicitor advocate) and England & Wales. She is also admitted as a solicitor of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (British Virgin Islands) and a registered Bermuda practitioner.