Yen Fen Lai

Yen Fen is a valuation professional with over a decade of experience in Valuation and Corporate Finance. Her background includes working in international accounting firms and corporate finance advisory firms before joining Brand Finance. Throughout her career, Yen Fen has led and successfully completed numerous engagements, encompassing business valuation, intangible assets valuation, complex financial instrument valuation, financial due diligence exercises, and M&A sell-side advisory projects. She has also played a key role in corporate exercises, including fund raising, mergers & acquisitions, and underwriting. Her notable accomplishments include:

• Pricing analysis of a group of companies involved in paint manufacturing and distribution business in Asia, with a transaction value of approximately USD 12 billion.
• Conducting pricing analysis for a group of companies engaged in the manufacturing of PVC stabilizers and metallic soaps across multiple countries, including Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, India, China, South Africa, Kenya, Europe, Colombia, Brazil, and Saudi Arabia.
• Conducting purchase price allocation and independent valuation for the acquisition of an open-cut thermal coal mine located in Queensland.

Yen Fen holds a membership with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and has achieved the notable feat of passing all three levels of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) examination.