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Clifford Chance Offices
MARINA BAY FINANCIAL CENTRE
25TH FLOOR, TOWER 3, 12 MARINA BOULEVARD
SINGAPORE 018982
Singapore
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Tom Lin
Position
Tom Lin specialises in M&A and corporate finance with a particular focus on private equity transactions.
Tom advises private equity houses, other financial investors and corporates on a wide range of matters, including buyouts, secondaries, joint ventures, MBOs, minority and co-investments, public M&A, management incentives and restructurings. His experience covers healthcare, financial services, infrastructure, renewables, consumer, education, industrials, logistics and real estate.
He has been based in Singapore since 2011 and previously served as in-house counsel at the private equity arm of an international financial institution.
Career
University of Melbourne (LLB, BA) 2007
Articled Clerk and Solicitor, Clayton Utz 2007
Associate, White & Case 2011
Standard Chartered Private Equity 2015
Joined Clifford Chance 2017
Partner since 2020
Lawyer Rankings
Singapore > Corporate and M&A: foreign firms
(Next Generation Partners)Noted for its capability to advise on Singapore, English and New York law, the ‘all-star team’ at Clifford Chance covers the full spectrum of mandates, from M&A, joint ventures and divestments to general corporate advisory work across the energy and infrastructure, financial services, consumer goods and retail, healthcare and life sciences, TMT and private equity sectors. Praised as ‘one of the best M&A lawyers in Singapore’, managing partner Valerie Kong has built a strong portfolio of clients, including sovereign wealth funds, Singapore and Malaysia government-linked entities, multinational banks and corporates, with demonstrable experience in cross-border M&A, particularly in the Southeast Asia region. Kong jointly leads the team alongside Melissa Ng, who is commended for her ‘keen intellect, commerciality and extensive experience’ in M&A, divestments and joint ventures, and Tom Lin, who focuses on private equity transactions. Senior associate Ivan Chan is another key contact in the group.
Lawyer Rankings
- Corporate and M&A: foreign firms Singapore
- Next Generation Partners Singapore > Corporate and M&A: foreign firms
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Capital markets: structured finance, derivatives and securitisation: Foreign firms
- Corporate and M&A: foreign firms
- Fintech and financial services regulatory: foreign firms
- International arbitration
- Investment funds: foreign firms
- Labour and employment: foreign firms
- Capital markets: structured finance, derivatives and securitisation: Foreign firms
- Capital markets: structured finance, derivatives and securitisation: Foreign firms
- Projects: foreign firms
- Restructuring and insolvency: foreign firms
- TMT: foreign firms