2023 Chambers Global - Notable Practitioner - Investment Funds - "Not only is Melissa super reliable, she is also an absolute pleasure to work with."
2022 Chambers Global - Notable Practitioner - Investment Funds - "Melissa Lim is brilliant."
2022 Chambers FinTech - "She is incredibly easy to work with, very thorough and detail-oriented and very responsive. She also has very good judgement."
2021 Chambers Global - Notable Practitioner - Investment Funds - "She is always very attentive and responsive," [and] "she is an absolute pleasure to work with."
2021 IFLR 1000 - Rising Star
2020 Chambers Global - Notable Practitioner - Investment Funds - "Sources say she is "great – always helpful on Cayman Islands issues and a pleasure to deal with."
2020 IFLR 1000 - Rising Star
2019 Chambers Global - Notable Practitioner - Investment Funds - "Market observers say Melissa Lim is "experienced and very well respected" for funds work in the Cayman Islands. Sources add that she is "responsive and knowledgeable" and has "always given creative solutions" when faced by challenging problems."
2019 IFLR 1000 - Rising Star
2018 Chambers Global - Notable Practitioner - Investment Funds - "She understands our clients and their businesses. She is very capable of arriving at practical answers and is also incredibly responsive."
2018 Legal 500 - Recommended Lawyer - Corporate & Commercial
2018 Legal 500 - Recommended Lawyer - Investment Funds
2018 IFLR 1000 - Rising Star
2017 Chambers Global - Notable Practitioner - Investment Funds - "Melissa Lim was commended by one source as 'absolutely outstanding', and they added: 'Whatever it is, she is there and she is tremendous'."
2017 Legal 500 - Recommended Lawyer - Investment Funds
2017 IFLR 1000 - Rising Star - Investment Funds and Banking
2016 Legal 500 - Recommended Lawyer - Corporate & Commercial - "Melissa Lim ‘can both advise on complex issues and defuse difficult situations’"
2016 IFLR 1000 - Rising Star - Investment Funds and Banking
2015 Legal 500 - Recommended Lawyer - Corporate & Commercial
2015 Legal 500 - Recommended Lawyer - Investment Funds
Melissa is a co-author of the Cayman Islands chapter of Private Equity in the Cayman Islands: Market and Regulatory Overview. She is also the co-author of How Fund Managers May Deploy the Cayman Islands LLC Structure, published by The Hedge Fund Law Report Vol. 9, No. 48; and also a co-author of the Cayman Islands chapter of the Chambers Fintech Guide.