WongPartnership LLP

Debt Capital Markets; Financial Services Regulatory; Insurance; Private Wealth; Special Situations Advisory

Hui Choon Yuen is the Head of the Financial Services Group (which encompasses four practices, namely Asset Management & Funds, Banking & Finance, Capital Markets and Financial Services Regulatory). He also heads the Debt Capital Markets and Insurance Practices and is a Partner in the Financial Services Regulatory and Private Wealth Practices.

His main practice areas are debt capital markets, securitisations, insurance and financial services regulatory compliance.

Work Highlights

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

Banyan Tree Holdings Limited in its renounceable and non-underwritten rights issue of $50 million in aggregate principal amount of 7.5 per cent convertible bonds. Pacific International Lines on the restructuring of the approximately US$3.3 billion in aggregate of debts and liabilities of the shipping group via a consensual debt re-profiling exercise with its creditors in Singapore. Olam International Limited on its liability management exercise comprising an exchange offer and consent solicitation which involved Singapore dollar and U.S. dollar-denominated senior notes and perpetual securities. This is in connection Olam International Limited's business reorganisation. KKR Credit Advisors (US) LLC and its affiliates in connection with the debt and equity financing of 8S Capital Holdings Pte. Ltd., being the offeror in the voluntary conditional cash offer for all the issued and paid-up ordinary shares of 800 Super Holdings Limited. Arranger (DBS Bank Ltd.) and programme dealers (DBS Bank Ltd., Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited and United Overseas Bank Limited) in the establishment of Singapore Airlines Limited's S$2 billion Medium Term Bond Programme (the "Programme"), where bonds under the Programme may be issued under the exempt bond issuer framework or the seasoning framework to retail investors, and the issuance of S$750 million 3.03% bonds due 2024 under the exempt bond issuer framework. DBS Bank Ltd., The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC Bank) and Standard Chartered Bank in a commercial mortgaged back securitisation of receivables from Raffles City complex. The transaction comprised the issuing of US$645 million secured floating rate notes out of an existing S$10 billion medium term note programme and the granting of separate term loan and revolving credit facilities. This deal won the IFR Asia Awards - Securitisation Deal of the Year 2011 and IFR Global Awards – Asia Pacific Securitisation of the Year 2011.

Publications & Legal Updates

Euromoney Emerging Markets Handbook 2012/2013 Butterworths Journal of International Financial Law 2012

English, Mandarin

Admitted, 1997, Singapore Bar; University of Bristol (LL.B., Hons.).