Credentials

Corporate

  • First Choice Holidays (now Tui Travel) on the US$55 million acquisition of Asiarooms.com, a leading business-to-consumer online accommodation retailer in Singapore and Thailand
  • Shipping groups SVITZER A/S and Wilh. Wilhelmsen on the US$92 million auction sale of their Singapore-based joint venture Express Offshore Transport to Macquarie Bank. The sale of EOT, with operations in South East Asia and the Middle East, attracted significant interest from private equity investors before the conclusion of the auction sale by the sale to Macquarie.
  • Baring Private Equity on the English law aspects of its acquisition of Courts plc's listed Singapore and Malaysia businesses through takeovers in Singapore and Malaysia
  • Baring Private Equity Asia on the English aspects of its proposed acquisition of a stake in a Singapore company which is listed on AIM in the UK (aborted)
  • Givaudan, the Swiss listed flavours and fragrance producer, in relation to the Singapore, Taiwan and Philippines aspects of its £1.2 billion acquisition of Quest International from ICI plc

 

Energy

  • BNP Paribas on its proposed loan to a BVI SPV in relation to oil & gas assets in Bangladesh
  • CNOOC on the financing of a joint venture in respect of the operation and development of a project in Nigeria 
  • Mitsubishi Corporation on all financing aspects of its US$352 million acquisition of a 19.97% indirect stake in major Indonesian oil and gas company, PT Medco Energi Internasional Tbk

 

TMT

  • Tata Communications on various banking facilities to the value of US$470 million
  • a telecommunications company on the financing aspects of its proposed acquisition of telecommunications assets in China
  • an Indian telecommunications company on the US$100 million project financing of the construction and development of an intra-Asia undersea cable system

 

Contentious

  • two leading hotel operators in relation to a dispute regarding termination of a hotel management contract in Thailand
  • an oilfield services company in SIAC arbitration against a Southeast Asian Government over breaches of contract and advising on the commencement of a parallel arbitration brought under the ASEAN treaty
  • a major Chinese electronics manufacturer in Singapore arbitration concerning distribution agreement disputes
  • a major Chinese electronics manufacturer in relation to Singapore arbitration proceedings to be brought by a Bangladeshi telecoms company

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