WongPartnership LLP

Corporate Real Estate; Real Estate Investment Trusts

Monica Yip is the Head of the Corporate Group which predominantly encompasses the Mergers and Acquisitions Practice, the Corporate Real Estate Practice and the Antitrust & Competition Practice. She is the Co-Head of the Corporate Real Estate Practice with experience in real estate work spanning 30 years.

Her practice areas include property and property-related corporate transactions and investment work, acquisitions, disposals, securitisations, management and leasing of commercial, industrial and residential properties, property advisory work, property development and finance work, government land sales.

Work Highlights

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

ESR Funds Management (S) Limited (the manager of ESR-REIT) in the merger with Viva Industrial Trust by way of a trust scheme of arrangement. At the close of the transaction, the merger valued Viva Industrial Trust at S$936.7 million and created Singapore's fourth largest industrial REIT with approximately S$3 billion in property assets. This deal won Best Singapore Deal at the FinanceAsia Awards 2018 and M&A Deal of the Year (Midsize) at the ALB SE Asia Law Awards, 2019. The successful tenderers and approved developer in the financing of their acquisition of a Hillview Rise residential site through a government land sale with a top bid of S$460 million. The acquisition was made under a dual-envelope system whereby tenderers were required to submit concept proposals as part of the tender. The Central Provident Fund ("CPF") Board in the sale of the CPF Building at 79 Robinson Road, Singapore, to Southernwood Property Pte. Ltd. (a company wholly-owned by the Ascendas-Singbridge group) for S$550 million. ESR Funds Management (S) Limited, as manager of ESR-REIT, in the acquisition by RBC Investor Services Trust Singapore Limited, in its capacity as trustee of ESR-REIT, of 80% of the issued and paid-up share capital of 7000 AMK Pte. Ltd. which has a leasehold interest in the land known as 7000 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5, Singapore 569877 (together with the buildings and plant and equipment thereon) for approximately S$240 million. The syndicate of mandated lead arrangers, lenders and hedge banks as transaction counsel, in the S$830 million financing to Asia Square Tower 2 Pte. Ltd. for the development of a Grade A office and retail building and a fully-integrated 5-star hotel with entertainment, dining and conference facilities within the heart of the newly-crowned central business hub of Singapore, Marina Bay.

Publications & Legal Updates

Chambers Global Practice Guides - Real Estate - Singapore Chapter, 2017 – 2022 editions The Legal 500: Real Estate Country Comparative Guide, 2022

English.

Admitted, 1990, Singapore Bar; National University of Singapore (LL.B., Hons.).