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As a managing partner, Lisa sees a need to ensure that our clients see us as their business partner and not as just a legal service provider. Our aim is to provide innovative legal solutions for our clients across Asia with a high level of service and support that will help our clients better manage and succeed in their own businesses.

Lisa believes it is important that our lawyers understand the sectors in which they work. She has been involved with healthcare, oil and gas, manufacturing, engineering, distribution, trading, exhibition, publishing, food and beverage and leisure and entertainment companies on a range of issues. She also regularly works with private equity and venture capital companies and funds.

She was one of two representatives for Asia on the board of directors (2016 to 2021) and was Chair Asia Pacific Region (2018 to 2021) in Interlaw, an international association of independent law firms found in 150 cities worldwide.   She has been an independent director of companies listed in Singapore, Hong Kong and Nasdaq as well as private companies such as Sunseap Group Pte Ltd and Eagle Eye Centre Pte Ltd.  She is a current independent director of Swan & Maclaren Group Pte. Ltd.

Pradeep acts for corporations, whether they are private or listed companies, on all aspects of their business including advice on structuring their operations, the setting up of the business (such as incorporation of companies, registration of branches or representative offices), compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements, licensing requirements, advice and drafting of corporate documentation as well as advice and drafting of documentation on investments, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions and restructurings.

Pradeep also advises companies listed on the Singapore Exchange (“SGX”) on listing issues and transactions including compliance with the SGX Listing Manual, fundraising, bond issues, acquisitions and disposals, interested party transactions, employee share option and share schemes, corporate transactions requiring shareholders’ approval and corporate governance issues.

He is also active in helping businesses to manage their people effectively – the most important aspect of any successful organisation. His work covers the whole spectrum of employment law issues from the onset of the employment relationship to its termination (including reviewing employment contracts and employee handbooks for compliance with Singapore laws and advising on corporate restructuring and termination issues) as well as immigration issues (including the application of employment passes, Singapore permanent residence and Singapore citizenship).

Pradeep is a former Senior Assistant Registrar of Companies and Businesses.

He sits on the firm’s Management Committee.

Bill is an English lawyer who is also registered to practise Singapore law in the areas of corporate law, banking and finance and securities laws. His experience includes 10 years in the City of London and over 30 years based in Singapore, as a partner in a well-known international law firm prior to joining CNP. He has worked for clients from all over the world on M&A, capital markets, investment funds, private equity deals, project finance, leveraged buy-outs and restructuring transactions. His focus is on assisting clients to access Asian markets and investment flows through Singapore. He also advises on regulatory and employment issues in the financial services industry.

He is ranked for Investment Funds in Chambers Asia Pacific 2025. He is also a highly regarded lawyer for Investment Funds in IFLR1000 (34^th Edition) and Asialaw Distinguished Practitioner 2024. He is a leading individual for Investment Funds as well as recommended lawyer for Banking and Finance and Labor and Employment in Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024. He has been recognised as a national leader for Banking by Who’s Who Legal 2024 and “Business Today” rated him as one of the top 10 Most Influential Domestic Investment Funds Lawyers in Singapore 2023. He heads up the firm’s financial services regulatory practice, which is recognised in IFLR1000.

Bill is one of the firm’s contacts for Interlaw, a network of independent full-service corporate law firms ranked by Chambers & Partners in its highest category (“Elite”) amongst all global law firm networks.

Min-Li’s principal areas of expertise are in corporate and financial services with particular emphasis on corporate finance, securities and capital markets and private and public mergers and acquisitions throughout Asia. She derives satisfaction from structuring practical legal solutions that take into account the commercial aspirations of clients and their risk profiless, be it helping a client to extract value from his business through a sale or a listing or working on strategies to scale and expand, bringing the business to the next level. Her clients include private companies, from start-ups to established companies and companies listed on the SGX and other international exchanges, funds and financial institutions. She also regularly advises on corporate governance and listing rules for companies listed on the SGX (Mainboard and Catalist).

Min-Li firmly believes in being a valued partner to her clients, as opposed to merely a service provider.

She heads the firm’s Corporate Finance team.

Subra’s practice has been primarily in the field of commercial litigation and arbitration. He heads the firm’s International Arbitration and Construction, Engineering and Infrastructure teams.

He has had an active commercial litigation practice for the last 33 years, he regularly advises and represents publicly listed companies, multi-national corporations and high net worth individuals in a variety of corporate and commercial disputes in the High Court and the Court of Appeal in Singapore.

He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, UK and the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators. As an accredited Arbitrator and experienced Arbitration counsel, he has also advised and represented clients from the Middle East, China, India, France, the United Kingdom, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia in numerous international cross border arbitrations under the SIAC, ICC, HKIAC, LCIA and CIETAC Rules.

John Mark is a corporate mergers and acquisitions lawyer who specialises in competition law.

With almost 20 years PQE from Singapore and the United Kingdom, John Mark’s expertise encompasses a wide variety of corporate and commercial matters including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity funds, commercial agreements, employment, and regulatory matters. His clients comprise from a diverse range of industries such as F&B, telecommunications, card payments, electronics, aviation, financial services, hospitality, raw materials, maritime, pharmaceuticals, freight forwarding, etc.

John Mark also regularly handles matters such as cartel investigations, abuse of dominance investigations, dawn-raid management, leniency applications, antitrust and merger control notifications. He has previously acted in landmark cases in Singapore such as SISTIC, Ferry Operators, Chicken Distributors, Freight Forwarders and Heineken/Asia Pacific Breweries.

John Mark is recognized as a “Leading Competition and Anti-Trust Lawyer”, and “Expert in Competition Law” by various journals including Asialaw. He has been featured as one of Singapore’s influential young lawyers in the third edition of Singapore Business Review’s “Top Singapore lawyers aged 40 and Under” in 2016 and one of “Singapore’s most influential young individuals who “exhibited job excellence and strong dedication” in Singapore Business Review’s inaugural “Class of 40 and under” in 2014. He has been described by clients as “intelligent”, “focused”, “technically excellent”, “a safe pair of hands” and “able to get it (the issue) very quickly”.