Housing an ‘impressively deep bench of leading lawyers’, Morrison Foerster (Singapore) advises on large-scale M&A, private equity transactions and joint ventures, with demonstrable experience in the real estate, technology and financial services sectors. Practice leader Shirin Tang, who is qualified in New York and Singapore, has considerable experience in private equity and venture capital transactions, M&A and joint ventures, while Lip Kian Ang is active across the fintech, technology, life sciences and consumer goods industries. Tabitha Saw focuses on private equity real estate and data centre transactions, and Steven Tran is praised as ’immensely knowledgeable’ in cross-border private equity and M&A deals.

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Testimonials

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‘Tabitha Saw is responsive and has a strong understanding of data centre leases. Extremely smart and able to effectively manage complex transactions.’
‘The team is very responsive to client requests and needs.’
‘Shirin Tang delivers commercial and creative solutions and has an excellent understanding of our business. She is very user-friendly.’
‘Morrison Foerster has always had a solid name regionally and internationally as a top-tier M&A practice, however the relatively recent expansion of the Singapore team has clearly underscored their commitment to the region with an impressively deep bench of leading lawyers.’
‘Steven Tran is a stellar hire for Morrison Foerster. Not only is he immensely knowledgeable on the law, but he is a born pragmatist - able to sift the really important issues from the pack and focus on delivering true value to clients.’
‘MoFo has been an outstanding firm that has become our principal deal counsel on almost every investment we make in Asia.’
‘Lip Kian Ang and Yong Wei Tan are an outstanding team. Deeply experienced, highly responsive, and gives user-friendly advice.’
‘Lip Kian Ang is user-friendly and responsive. ’

Key clients

GLP Pte. Ltd.
Princeton Digital Group
IndoSpace
FLOW Digital Infrastructure
GDS

Work highlights

Acted as international counsel to GLP’s China Logistics Fund I and its affiliates in the US$5 billion sale of the portfolio developed within GLP CLF I.
Represented IndoSpace in the formation of IndoSpace Logistics Parks IV (ILP IV), the company’s fourth development vehicle, targeting US$600 million of total equity commitments.