Clifford Chance has promoted three new partners in Asia Pacific, part of a global cohort of 31 new partners, effective May 1, 2025. The new partners highlight the strength of top talent available to clients across the breadth of international markets and sectors aligned with the firm’s global growth strategy.
The new partners in Asia Pacific are Chin Seng Chew (GFM-Singapore), Chloe Cheng (Corporate-Singapore) and Mel Chan (GFM-Singapore).
Chin Seng Chew specialises in representing international financial institutions, credit funds, sponsors and borrowers on leveraged and acquisition financing, private credit, infrastructure debt, fund financing, syndicated lending and restructuring transactions covering the Asia Pacific region, with a particular focus on Southeast Asia and India. He joined the firm in 2017, has worked in its Singapore and Hong Kong offices, and is dual-qualified to practise in Singapore and England.
Singapore-based Chloe Cheng is a member of the firm’s APAC Private Funds Group. She is a Singapore-qualified lawyer, and advises clients on the formation of and investment in a wide variety of private funds. She also counsels clients on co-investments, secondaries and spin outs.
Mel Chan regularly advises sponsors, multilateral development banks, development finance institutions, export credit agencies and commercial banks on the financing of energy and infrastructure projects, with a particular emphasis in the Asia Pacific. Her experience spans across the oil & gas, refining and petrochemicals, power and infrastructure sectors. She has worked on numerous first-of-a-kind projects, and has handled multiple complex multi-source financings and blended finance transactions. She also has extensive experience on ECA-backed financings. Mel is a member of the Clifford Chance Global Energy Transition Initiative. Her focus is on renewables, carbon capture, green fuels and clean hydrogen/ammonia.
Connie Heng, Asia Pacific Regional Managing Partner, said, “I am thrilled to congratulate Chin Seng Chew, Chloe Cheng, and Mel Chan on their well-deserved promotions to partners. Their dedication, expertise, and commitment to excellence have contributed to our success in Singapore and in the Asia Pacific region.”
Global Managing Partner Charles Adams said, “We’re committed to investing in and nurturing our top talent in areas where we can have the most impact on our clients’ success. These exceptional individuals represent our high-performing, collaborative culture and continued focus on supporting our clients’ most critical challenges.”
Global Senior Partner Adrian Cartwright added, “A big congratulations to our newly-promoted partners. They each bring industry-leading legal expertise and commercial insights enabling them to deliver the full strength of our global platform and capabilities for the benefit of our clients and the continued success of our firm.”
