Wong Ai Ai

Independent Non-Executive Director at City Developments Limited

Mrs Wong is one of Baker McKenzie. Wong & Leow’s most distinguished lawyers, with a career that spans leading a range of landmark transactions for blue-chip clients, to global management and leadership roles at the highest levels of Baker McKenzie, including serving as a member of Global Executive Committee and Chair of the Asia Pacific Region. Her legal expertise includes mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity, hotels and real estate, and capital markets.

Under her leadership, Baker McKenzie has built out an aggressive transactional strategy that has seen its transactional teams secure industry leading mandates, and win many accolades across the world, including in key centres such as London, New York, Paris, Germany, Japan, Hong Kong, China and Brazil. Mrs Wong was also instrumental in the development and implementation of the firm’s Belt & Road Initiative, Sustainability and Financial Institutions strategies. As a transactional lawyer, Mrs Wong has been recognised as a leading individual and eminent practitioner for Corporate/M&A matters by publications including Chambers Asia Pacific, Legal 500 Asia Pacific and IFLR1000.

Mrs Wong is a founding steering committee member of Climate Governance Singapore Limited, an initiative led by World Economic Forum to educate non-executive directors on the opportunities and challenges for their companies arising from climate change and its consequences. She is also a Justice of the Peace.

She graduated from the University of Kent, with a Bachelor of Arts in Law First Class Honours, and holds a Master of Law from Harvard University Law School. She is admitted to practice in Singapore, New York, England and Wales (Grays Inn).