Susan McKinstray

Susan is counsel in Carey Olsen's corporate practice in Singapore. She has 10 years' experience as an offshore lawyer and advises on a wide range of banking and finance, corporate, commercial and investment fund matters in multiple jurisdictions including British Virgin Islands (BVI), Cayman Islands and Jersey.

Susan has significant experience advising on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity, listings / IPOs, reorganisations, start-ups and technical and regulatory matters (in particular company law, investment business, banking and other financial services regulation).

Susan relocated from Carey Olsen’s Jersey office to Singapore in 2018 and is uniquely placed to provide advice to clients in Asia on structuring, formation, launch and maintenance of funds in these jurisdictions across a broad range of asset classes, in addition to advising on downstream M&A and preference share financings. She has particular experience working with Asia based fund managers using Jersey fund structures and is one of the only lawyers in Singapore who provides Jersey corporate, funds, and financing advice.

Susan also regularly acts for PRC clients and law firms to assist on their corporate, funds and capital markets transactions and has acted on a number of high profile transactions that have been recognised by leading legal publication such as the China Business Law Journal's (CBLJ) prestigious "deals of the year".            

Susan joined Carey Olsen in 2013, having trained and qualified as a solicitor with Scottish law firm Maclay Murray & Spens LLP (now Dentons).

She obtained the LL.B (Hons.) (2009) and Diploma in Legal Practice (2011) from the University of Glasgow, incorporating a period of study at the National University of Singapore.

Susan is a member of the Law Society of Scotland and a solicitor of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (British Virgin Islands).