Drew & Napier LLC

Mergers & Acquisitions; Capital Markets; Corporate & Finance

Head, Mergers & Acquisitions
Co-Head, Capital Markets

Steven is the Head of the Mergers & Acquisitions Practice and the co-head of the Capital Markets Practice.

His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. He has extensive experience in both private and public merger and acquisition transactions in Singapore and the region, having acted for bidders, target companies and financial advisers in such transactions.

A versatile individual with a wide range of expertise, Steven has also represented issuers, underwriters and selling shareholders in a variety of domestic and international capital markets transactions.

Steven has been noted in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific as a "highly experienced corporate/M&A lawyer", for "providing solid advice" and for "understanding commercial issues and realities". Steven was involved in the Asian Legal Business (ALB) Singapore Deal of the Year and Singapore M&A Deal of the Year (2008) for the takeover and tender offer for STATS ChipPac Ltd by Temasek Holdings Pte Ltd and the ALB Singapore M&A Deal of the Year (2010) for the takeover offer by PetroChina International (Singapore) Pte Ltd for Singapore Petroleum Company Limited. More recently, he was involved in the ALB SE Asia Legal Awards 2018 M&A Deal of the Year (Premium) and Asian Lawyer Asia Legal Awards 2018 M&A Deal of the Year: Southeast Asia for the Privatisation of Global Logistic Properties as well as the Singapore Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (SVCA) PE Deal of the Year 2017 for the acquisition of Innovalues by NorthStar.

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Independent Director, Chuan Hup Holdings Limited Member, Law Society of Singapore Member, Singapore Academy of Law

LL.B. (Hons), National University of Singapore (1995) LL.M. Cambridge University (1998) Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore (1996) Solicitor, England & Wales (2000) (Non- practising)