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Singaporean boutique Aquinas Law Alliance has hired corporate lawyers Cephas Yee and Joshua Tan as partners and named Lim Kok Meng, the firm’s co-founder of head of corporate, as joint managing partner.

Both Tan and Yee were most recently at boutique firm BlackOak. Prior to that, they were both in in-house roles at distressed grocery startup Honestbee, and at TSMP Law Corporation.

Yee is a commercial and litigation and dispute resolution specialist, while Tan, a corporate and commercial lawyer.

Lim will share managing partner duties with Aloysius Wee. “It is timely for Kok Meng to be appointed as joint managing partner as the firm has been growing rapidly in the last three years,” said Wee in a statement. “We started with a team of 8 lawyers and 4 support staff to now over 15 lawyers and 10 support staff.”

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