Southeast Asia - Singapore

Dechert

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Praised for its ‘rich experience and attention to detail’, Dechert is well-placed to advise on cross-border transactions across the technology, energy and natural resources, financial services and infrastructure sectors. Maria Tan Pedersen has experience in M&A, joint ventures and financing transactions, while ’creative, thoughtful, and meticulous’ Siew Kam Boon advises on private equity, emerging growth and venture capital mandates. Timothy Goh counts private equity and venture capital entities, start-ups, multinational companies and development finance institutions among his key roster of clients. All named partners collectively lead the team.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘The Dechert team was able to hit the ground running, very quickly understood the deal and its complicated structure and provided quick and practical legal and structuring advice that enabled our company to expeditiously make an investment decision and close the deal.’

  • ‘Maria Tan Pedersen led the Dechert team in providing us with very timely and practical advice. She was very accessible and is quick to provide solutions to issues we've faced.’

  • ‘The team has rich experience and attention to detail.’

  • ‘Very responsive and thoughtful.’

  • ‘Siew Kam Boon is creative, thoughtful, and meticulous, not to mention incredibly approachable and easy to work with.’

  • ‘The team is responsive to clients' requests.’

Key clients

  • Capital Square Partners Management Pte Ltd
  • PT Dian Swastatika Sentosa Tbk
  • ABC Impact
  • TAG Holdings
  • Stockbit Pte. Ltd.
  • Hmlet
  • Reefknot Investments Pte. Ltd.
  • Graas

Work highlights

  • Assisted Capital Square Partners on the formation of a c. US$700m fund involving the acquisition of certain portfolio assets from certain earlier vintage funds managed by CSP and Basil Technology Partners.
  • Advising TAG Holdings Limited and its subsidiaries, on its business combination with AGBA Acquisition Limited, a special purpose acquisition company.
  • Assisting ACEN Renewables International Pte. Ltd., on the Monsoon onshore wind project in Lao PDR, which when completed will be the largest wind power project in Southeast Asia.

Lawyers

Leading individuals

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Siew Kam Boon, Maria Tan Pedersen, Timothy Goh