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Lily Yap

Director


Singapore +65 6593 9329


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'KordaMentha clients benefit from my extensive commercial experience in addition to my forensic accounting skills. Nothing beats the experience of having been in the position of our client.'

Lily Yap has more than 20 years of diverse corporate experience in finance and accounting, financial planning, analysis and control, and auditing. Lily has significant experience in managing financial affairs of corporations, with over fourteen years acting as a financial controller of various large multinational firms.

Prior to joining KordaMenthaNeo, Lily most recently worked at a major securities firm as a financial advisory consultant. Prior to that, Lily was the regional financial controller of a number of large hotel groups, the most recent of which operated eight hotels in Asia, Europe, and the US. In her various roles, Lily has gained significant experience in managing large groups of financial professionals across numerous locations. Lily started her career at Ernst & Young as an auditor.

Lily’s varied corporate experience enables her to assist corporations from improving their internal control systems to helping them manage cashflows during crisis situations. Lily is able to enhance internal controls, corporate governance, operating efficiency and implement group accounting policies and procedures. Lily is also able to assist prepare financial forecasts for distressed companies, manage cashflows and identify sources of financing. Lily is a qualified financial adviser and her recent experience in the financial advisory industry means she also has detailed knowledge of capital markets.

Significant Engagements

  • Performed a cash transactions review for a public company listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange for unusual transactions.
  • Performed a review of a Singapore listed REIT’s financials for financial viability.
  • Assisted with the drafting of Expert Report to critique the Respondent’s damage assessment and preparation for Expert Testimony where KordaMenthaNeo was appointed as the financial expert in an arbitration proceeding held in Hong Kong.
  • Assisted with the preparation of Expert Report for damage assessment where KordaMenthaNeo was appointed as the financial expert assisting the solicitor with his client’s claim for wrongful forced selling of shares on margin trading.
  • Assisted with the preparation of Expert Report for damage assessment where KordaMenthaNeo was appointed as the financial expert assisting the solicitor with the valuation of stock options (using Binomial and Black Scholes models) which his client was wrongfully denied.
  • Assisting a solicitor with an analysis of the trades in his clients’ accounts held with a bank for potential mishandling of the clients’ investments including overtrading etc.

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Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Accountancy (honours)
  • Qualified Financial Adviser (CMFAS)
  • Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA)



Memberships & Publications

  • CPA
  • FCCA (Fellow of ACCA)
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