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WongPartnership LLP
12 MARINA BOULEVARD, LEVEL 28
MARINA BAY FINANCIAL CENTRE TOWER 3
SINGAPORE 018982
Singapore

Work Department

Corporate Real Estate

Position

Angela Lim is a Partner in the Corporate Real Estate Practice.

Career

Her main practice areas are in commercial, industrial and residential property and property-related corporate transactions and investment work, real estate disposals, acquisitions, real estate investment trusts, tenders and government land sales, property development, property regulatory and advisory work, leasing, real estate financing, syndication, securitisation, commercial contracts and joint ventures.

Work Highlights

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

  • Lendlease Vault Holdings Pte. Ltd.  as one of the unitholders of a joint venture trust known as “Certis & Lendlease Property Trust”, in the acquisition from Certis Cisco Security Pte. Ltd.  of the property at 20 Jalan Afifi, Singapore 409179 including the buildings erected thereon known as “Certis Cisco Centre”, for the sum of approximately S$150 million for redevelopment and acted for  “Certis & Lendlease Property Trust” in the financing of the acquisition.
  • The REIT managers of AIMS APAC REIT in the S$129.6 million acquisition of a master tenanted logistics warehouse at 7 Bulim Street in the Jurong West Logistics Cluster within the Jurong Innovation District. There were various bespoke provisions required to deal with the parties’ commercial requirements and liaison with JTC to seek amendments to lease terms.
  • Singapore Island Country Club in the memorandum of agreement and accompanying licencing and facility sharing arrangements relating to the takeover of Sime golf course at the Bukit Location of Singapore Island Country Club by Keppel Club. Keppel Club will operate the new hybrid members-public facility at Sime golf course until 31 December 2030.
  • A club of lenders in a S$1.2 billion “green loan” granted to Frasers Property Aquamarine Trustee Pte. Ltd. (in its capacity as trustee-manager of Aquamarine Star Trust) for the refinancing of Frasers Tower, a premium Grade-A energy-efficient office tower with its own park and podium roof gardens, located at the gateway to Singapore central business district. The loan is the first syndicated green loan under the Green Loan Principles in Singapore and South East Asia.
  • The purchasers in the acquisition and financing of strata units by way of (a) the acquisition of the entire issued and paid up share capital of Angullia Development Pte. Ltd.‎ (“ADPL”), which involved, among others, the obtaining of a clearance certificate for ADPL from the Land Dealings Approval Unit of the Singapore Land Authority, and (b) the senior debt and junior debt refinancing exercise of ADPL.
  • Mapletree Commercial Trust Management Ltd., as manager of Mapletree Commercial Trust (“MCT”), in relation to (i) the acquisition of the office and business park components of Mapletree Business City (Phase 1) from its sponsor, Mapletree Investments Pte Ltd, for S$1.78 billion, and (ii) the equity fund raising undertaken by MCT, which involved the issue of up to 795 million new units in MCT to raise gross proceeds of approximately S$989.6 million.

 

Languages

English

Education

Admitted, Singapore Bar and Roll of Solicitors of England & Wales; University College London, University of London (LL.M.); National University of Singapore (LL.B., Hons.)

Lawyer Rankings

Singapore > Real estate: local firms

WongPartnership LLP‘s corporate real estate practice handles the full spectrum of work across the real estate sector. The ‘technically very strong‘ team assists a solid client base of REITs, developers, and high-net-worth individuals, among others, with the full spectrum of commercial, industrial, and residential property work, and is noted for its established track record in advising on financings, divestments, joint ventures, M&A real estate deals and complex lease matters. The practice is co-headed by Dorothy Marie Ng, ‘a leader in her field‘, who acts for banks and high-net-worth individuals, and corporate expert Monica Yip, who has extensive expertise in property-related transactions. Tan Teck Howe is a key name for regulatory issues. Serene Soh and Angela Lim are key names in the practice.