Mr Sin Wei Ong > WongPartnership LLP > Singapore, Singapore > Lawyer Profile

Mr Sin Wei Ong

+65 6517 8665 sinwei.ong@wongpartnership.com

Work Department

FinTech; India; Mergers & Acquisitions; WPGrow: Start-Up / Venture Capital

Position

Ong Sin Wei is the Co-Head of the WPGrow: Start-Up / Venture Capital Practice and a Partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions, FinTech and India Practices.

Career

Sin Wei has extensive experience in corporate and corporate finance matters including cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate/investment funds restructuring and fund formation. In addition, he has particular experience in matters involving the venture capital/start-ups (including FinTech), asset management, investment funds and insurance sectors.

Sin Wei trained and qualified as an English solicitor in London with a leading UK international firm. Prior to joining WongPartnership, Sin Wei worked with this leading UK international firm for about a decade in London, Beijing and Singapore. He also worked in Washington DC and Hong Kong S.A.R. with a leading US international firm and a Magic Circle law firm.

Work Highlights 

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

• • Red Date Technology, in the establishment of the BSN Foundation in Singapore which is the platform for the international expansion of the blockchain infrastructure of China’s Blockchain-based Service Network (BSN) — a public-private nationwide infrastructure project to spur mass adoption of blockchain technology in China (including for China’s digital yuan).
  • Coinhako, Singapore’s largest provider of digital wallet solutions for holding cryptocurrencies and digital tokens, on its corporate restructuring and fundraising.
  • Centrality, the blockchain-based marketplace platform, in its token generation event which raised US$100 million in CENNZ tokens in 6 minutes.
  • Pacific International Lines, PSA International, YCH Holdings and Kerry Logistics in the formation of a Singapore consortium vehicle Connectivity Solutions Pte Ltd, for the purpose of a joint project between Singapore and China known as “Sino-Singapore Chongqing Connectivity Solutions”.
  • Teleperformance as Singapore counsel in the acquisition of Intelenet Global Services, from Blackstone for US$1 billion.
  • Expedia Inc. in its US$350 million minority investment in Traveloka Holding Limited, a leading South East Asian online travel company.

Publications 

• WLG Venture Capital Guide – Singapore Chapter
• Getting The Deal Through – Private M&A, Singapore Chapter – 2019 – 2021 editions
• Singapore Institute of Directors – The Directors’ Bulletin – Overview of Legal Considerations When Investing In Emerging Markets
• Singapore Institute of Directors – The Directors’ Bulletin – Understanding Initial Coin Offerings

Publications & Legal Updates

• WLG Venture Capital Guide – Singapore Chapter
• Getting The Deal Through – Private M&A, Singapore Chapter – 2019 – 2021 editions
• Singapore Institute of Directors – The Directors’ Bulletin – Overview of Legal Considerations When Investing In Emerging Markets
• Singapore Institute of Directors – The Directors’ Bulletin – Understanding Initial Coin Offerings

Languages

English

Education

Admitted, Singapore Bar; Roll of Solicitors of England & Wales; University of Birmingham (LL.B., Hons.); University of Pennsylvania School of Law (LL.M., Distinction for thesis)