Melvin Yeo is an entrepreneur and a corporate/commercial lawyer with over 25 years’ worldwide experience covering new business start-ups, numerous corporate transactions (mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and other commercial arrangements), and has a long-standing and wide-ranging involvement in community and social development.

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Experience

Melvin’s experience includes initiating, managing and successfully executing corporate and commercial transactions and projects with values from $1 million to $1 billion (in various capacities as lead counsel, sole legal advisor or principal/director), through the entire lifecycle from:

  • Origination/initiation

  • Structuring and due diligence

  • Negotiation and strategic/tactical planning and advice

  • Contractual documentation

  • Completion/closing.

Qualifications

  • Barrister & Solicitor of the High Court of Australia

  • Barrister & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Western Australia

  • Bachelor of Laws (Hons), University of Western Australia

  • Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment, Securities Institute of Australia (now Finsia)

  • Diploma Company Directors Course, Australian Institute of Company Directors

  • The Not For Profit Board, Australian Institute of Company Directors & Perpetual