Ms Lim has been a senior lawyer and the Head of Real Estate and Construction group at Kalikova & Associates Law Firm, Bishkek, since 2003. Previous to this she worked as a lawyer at the World Bank Project on Registration of Land and Immovables, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. She has also worked as head of The Social Division of the Department of Law Development and Expertise, at the Kyrgyz ministry of Justice and as a legal advisor at the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of the Kyrgyz Republic.

She has experience drafting contracts, legal opinions, memoranda, private listing admission documents, solicitors' statements, and due diligence reports. She has advised clients on wide range of transactions mainly related to exploration and mining, land use, environmental and safety regulations, government affairs, financing, acquisitions, licensing, establishment of JVs, representation of clients' interests before government agencies, participation in and conduct of negotiations on behalf of the clients and/or firm, and assisting clients to set up professional networks.

She has written the following publications, Certain Problems of Legal Status of Incompletely Constructed Facilities in the Kyrgyz Republic 2009 (available on the International Business Council web-site (www.ibc.kg)) and Power sector reforms in early transition countries, London, 2004 (available on Law and Transition on-line, EBRD).

She has an MA in Law from Kyrgyz State National University, Bishkek and speaks Russian (native), English (basic).