Jolynn LIM is a Partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions and the WPGrow: Start-Up / Venture Capital Practices. 

Her main practice areas are corporate mergers and acquisitions, start-up and venture capital matters, and general corporate and commercial transactions. Jolynn represents investors, founders and emerging growth companies on corporate transactions across the fundraising spectrum from equity and bridge financing rounds, secondary acquisitions to exits.

Jolynn is a member of the core working group for the Venture Capital Investment Model Agreements (VIMA), which is a suite of standard-form documents for venture capital fundraising transactions in Singapore. 

She is also an Adjunct Lecturer at the Singapore Management University's Yong Pung How School of Law. 

In 2023, Jolynn was seconded to a large multinational American law firm in New York where she was involved in private-equity transactional and general corporate matters.

Jolynn graduated from the National University of Singapore and is admitted to the Singapore Bar. 
 

Significant transactions that Jolynn has been involved in include advising / acting for the following:

Start-up / Venture Capital 

  • Biofourmis, a virtual care and digital medicine company in their US$300 million Series D investment round led by General Atlantic. The funding round increased Biofourmis' valuation to US$1.3 billion, surpassing unicorn status. 
  • A global investment company headquartered in Singapore in its early, mid and late stage investments across various sectors such as med-tech, agri-tech and payment services. 
  • Openspace Ventures' Series A investment in Nutrition Technologies, this deal received an "Honourable Mention" in the Asian-Mena Counsel Deals of the Year Awards 2019.

Mergers & Acquisitions / Private Equity 

  • The disposal of 800 Super Holdings to a Keppel consortium comprising Keppel Asia Infrastructure Fund and Keppel Infrastructure Holdings, and KKR Credit Advisors (US) LLC and its affiliates in connection with the debt and equity financing of 8S Capital Holdings in the voluntary conditional cash offer for all the issued and paid-up ordinary shares of 800 Super Holdings.
  • The acquisition of a Singapore-headquartered data security platform by a leading software company listed on the NASDAQ. 
  • KKR & Co. as shareholder of PropertyGuru in the US$1.8 billion merger with Bridgetown 2 Holdings, a SPAC backed by Richard Li and Peter Thiel. 

Related Practices

  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • WPGrow: Start-Up / Venture Capital

Chambers Asia-Pacific – Asia-Pacific's Leading Lawyers for Business

  • Startups & Emerging Companies – Singapore: Associate to Watch 2023

"Jolynn Lim is a lawyer to watch."

"Her skillset and drafting are tip top."

The Legal 500: Asia Pacific – The Client’s Guide to the Asia Pacific Legal Profession

  • Start-up and venture capital – Singapore: Rising Star 2023 & 2024
  • Start-up and venture capital – Singapore: Leading Associate 2025

"Active in the area."

"Is dependable, very responsive and very committed."

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Qualifications

National University of Singapore (LL.B., Hons.)

Singapore Bar

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