Pauline Tang
Pauline specialises in commercial transactions involving intellectual property in technology, pharmaceutical and life sciences, energy, and financial services sectors and is passionate about helping clients actualize their creative business and technological solutions around the world.
Pauline has experience advising on cross-border and high value commercial agreements, especially the intellectual property, information technology and data aspects of corporate transactions. These include licensing arrangements and collaboration agreements encompassing the entire product value chain, from R&D, to manufacturing and supply, and commercialisation, as well as development and procurement of software, hardware and related IT services.
Pauline has experience advising multinational companies on data protection/privacy, export control, competition law, and other regulatory issues coming up in transactions. Additionally, Pauline has advised multinational life sciences and technology clients in internal and government investigations and litigations regarding anti-corruption and competition law issues.
Before moving to Singapore, Pauline spent a number of years practising in New York and Shanghai. Pauline is a native mandarin speaker.
Background
Pauline graduated with a Juris Doctor and Bachelor of Arts (economics major) from the University of California, Berkeley.
Pauline is a qualified lawyer in New York and a registered foreign lawyer in Singapore.
Experience & expertise
Selected matters
- a fintech-focused venture capital fund, on its joint venture with a digital solutions provider and related technology license and services agreements
- a global bank, on preparing and negotiating technology license and services agreements concerning its digital banking solutions with a bank in the APAC region
- a multinational Asia-headquartered pharmaceutical company, on its bid to purchase a suite of products from a UK-headquartered consumer health company, and related agreements on product manufacture, supply, and transitional services
- a leading Chinese battery manufacturer and technology company, on its joint venture with an electronic vehicle company and related technology license and services agreements
- a global ride-hailing and SuperApp company, on the regulatory analysis of its business expansion strategies and collaboration plans in the APAC region
- multiple private equity funds, in relation to the due diligence of potential targets’ technology and IP assets for the purposes of identifying red-flag issues and remediating the same
- a China-based pharmaceutical company in its licensing and collaboration agreement with an academic institution based in Southeast Asia in relation to a pan-coronavirus vaccine program*
- the China branch of a U.S. based pharmaceutical company in its licensing and collaboration agreement with respect to an innovative technology designed to improve the delivery of gene therapies*
* experience gained prior to joining Herbert Smith Freehills
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