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Corporate and M&A: local firms

Shook Lin & Bok LLP

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The team at Shook Lin & Bok LLP ‘go above and beyond’ for its roster of clients, including financial institutions, domestic corporates, private equity and venture capital houses, and advises on buyouts, mergers, reverse takeovers, joint ventures, privatisations, and trade and business sales and purchases. With demonstrable experience across the pharmaceuticals, healthcare, energy, real estate and technology sectors, the practice is led by David Chong, who handles cross-border transactions in Asia, the Middle East and Europe, while Ho Ying Ming advises on corporate restructurings, reorganisations and private equity investments. Other key contacts in the group include Chua Shi Ying and Pearlyn Xie.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘The firm houses stellar corporate partners, including Dayne Ho and Chua Shi Ying.’

  • ‘Clients need look no further than Dayne Ho for a lawyer with the rarest mixture of excellent commercial sense and brilliant technical ability. Clients are always ahead in the power curve because of his almost prescient analysis and brilliant negotiation skills.’

  • ‘We have a very pleasant and smooth working relationship with the SLB team. They are flexible and reasonable with their billings and costs, and will go above and beyond to accommodate our needs. ’

  • ‘David Chong is knowledgable, hard-working and responsive. He is very practical and is always willing think outside the box to find solutions for our unique requests.’

Key clients

  • Taylor Maritime Investments Limited
  • Advance Intelligence Group / Atome Financial
  • WPP Group
  • Dymon Asia Private Equity
  • Eqonex
  • Tesla
  • Pathology Asia Holdings
  • M1 Telecommunications
  • Xiaomi
  • Morgan Stanley

Work highlights

  • Advised Taylor Maritime Investments on its voluntary offer for Grindrod Shipping Holdings (NASDAQ : GRIN / JSE : GSH).
  • Assisted Nium, the global platform for modern money movement, as transaction counsel in its acquisition of Socash, a Singapore-based alternative payments network platform.
  • Acted for Excelpoint in relation to the privatisation and delisting of Excelpoint by a wholly owned Singapore incorporated subsidiary of WT Microelectronics Co., Ltd, a company listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange.

Lawyers

Leading individuals

David Chong, PBM

David Chong, PBM

Shook Lin & Bok LLP

David Chong specialises in corporate and corporate finance, with particular experience in the communications, media, technology, energy and natural resources sector. He has particular experience on cross-border transactions, having started his career in London before relocating to Asia. His principal focus is on mergers and acquisitions (both public and private), including tender offers, schemes, reverse takeovers, privatisations and de-listings, joint ventures, MBOs, earn-outs, asset purchases, restructurings, anti-trust and merger control. He is a governor of the Singapore International Foundation, a member of the Catholic High School Management Committee and secretary to the Singapore Deposit Insurance Corporation. He was also awarded the Public Service Medal (Pingat Bakti Masyarakat) by the President of the Republic of Singapore in 2022.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

David Chong

Other key lawyers

Ho Ying Ming, Chua Shi Ying, Pearlyn Xie, Dayne Ho

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