Mr Mark Choy > WongPartnership LLP > Singapore, Singapore > Lawyer Profile

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

Work Department

Indonesia; Mergers & Acquisitions; Middle East; Private Equity; Special Situations Advisory; WPGrow: Start-Up / Venture Capital

Position

Mark Choy is the Co-Head of the Private Equity and Special Situations Advisory. He is also a Partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions, Indonesia and Middle East Practices.

Career

His main areas of practice are mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, general corporate and commercial work.

Mark has extensive experience advising acquirers and targets in cross-border M&A deals locally in Singapore and across Asia. His clients are both listed and private companies, in a range of industries. In addition, Mark supports the Special Situations Advisory Practice as they represent both debtors and creditors in cross-border restructurings and insolvency proceedings in the region. He provides invaluable strategic advice to both buyers and sellers in restructuring M&A transactions, covering aspects of bankruptcy and securities laws.

Work Highlights 

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

  • Temasek in several of its venture capital investments in financial technology firms as well as other start-ups such as fashion start-up Zilingo, global sports media property One Championship and e-commerce firm Sociolla, as well as investments in healthtech firm Halodoc, Indonesia’s Bank Artos and a joint venture with ST Telemedia and Triputra to build data centres in Indonesia..
  • Investors across the spectrum of funding rounds, such as Sheares Healthcare Group as lead investor in Homage Co.’s US$30 million Series C funding round and Temasek in the Series A funding round of Growthwell Foods, a Singapore-based manufacturer of alternative meat and seafood.
  • Singapore Reinsurance Corporation Limited (“Singapore Reinsurance”) in relation to the voluntary conditional cash offer by SAC Capital Private Limited, for and on behalf of Fairfax Asia Limited, to acquire all the issued and paid-up ordinary shares in the capital of Singapore Reinsurance.
  • Hyflux Ltd. a Singapore mainboard-listed infrastructure, construction and engineering company in a group restructuring exercise involving at least S$3 billion of debt.
  • Vard Holdings Limited (“Vard”) in the voluntary delisting of Vard from the Main Board of the Singapore Exchange following from the delisting proposal presented by Fincantieri Oil & Gas S.p.A., the majority shareholder of Vard.
  • KKR in its investments in V3, a leading specialty retailer of luxury lifestyle and wellness products in Asia which owns two leading luxury brands, OSIM and TWG Tea and its acquisition of a stake in PT Nippon Indosari Corpindo Tbk., Indonesia’s leading mass market bread company from Bonlight Investments Limited.

Publications & Legal Updates

Languages

English, Mandarin

Education

Admitted, 1999, Singapore Bar; University of Nottingham (LL.B., Hons.)

Lawyer Rankings

Indonesia > Foreign firms

WongPartnership LLP contains experienced practitioners in dispute resolution and M&A transactions that arise in Indonesia and collaborates with Makes & Partners to handle matters in the region. Manoj Pillay Sandrasegara, who regularly advises on cross-border restructuring matters, leads the Indonesia practice alongside Mark Choy and James Choo.

Singapore > Corporate and M&A: local firms

Diverse in experience and capabilities’, the practice at WongPartnership LLP maintains a strong track record in big-ticket transactions across the Asia Pacific region, China and the Middle East. Noted for his expertise in domestic and cross-border M&A, corporate restructurings, joint ventures and privatisations, Andrew Ang jointly leads the team alongside Chan Sing Yee, who focuses on joint ventures, venture capital and corporate finance-related transactions. Managing partner Ng Wai King boasts an enviable track record in high-profile M&A and private equity investments, while Audrey Chng is praised for her ‘strong expertise in public and private transactions’. Mark Choy acts for acquirers and targets in cross-border M&A deals and ‘client-orientedQuak Fi Ling handles privatisations, private equity investments and M&A. Other key contacts in the group include Soong Wen E and Anna Tan.