Meiyen Tan is a partner at Ascendant Legal LLC. She is also the first female to lead a restructuring and insolvency legal practice in Singapore. Meiyen is admitted to the Singapore Bar, Malaysian Bar, the Roll of Solicitors of England & Wales and qualified as a Barrister-at-Law (Middle Temple). She is a member of the Board of INSOL International and the INSOL International Asian Advisory Council.

Meiyen’s main areas of practice include cross-border disputes, consensual and non-consensual insolvency and restructuring, corporate fraud and investigations. She has acted for and advised individuals, multi-national corporations, court-appointed administrators, distressed and special situations funds and banks in Singapore and abroad. Prior to joining Oon & Bazul, she was a partner at one of the Big Four domestic law practices in Singapore.
Meiyen graduated from the University of Warwick.

She is the Asia Regional Vice Director Programming and one of the founding members of the Singapore Network of the International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC). Until March 2019, she was the Co-Chairperson of the Singapore Network. She also spearheaded the establishment of IWIRC Malaysia together with members of the insolvency and restructuring practice areas in Malaysia. She is also the Vice President of the Singapore chapter of the Turnaround Management Association, and a member of the Committee of the Middle Temple of Singapore.

Meiyen publishes articles regularly and continues to speak at conferences in the Asia Pacific region, on an invitation basis. Her recent speaking engagements include various conferences and seminars organised by IWIRC, INSOL, ARITA, APRIA, the Global Restructuring Review and the Asian Business Law Institute.