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.
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