Southeast Asia - Singapore

Dentons Rodyk

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Commended for its ‘great depth of talent and breadth of experience’, Dentons Rodyk is well-placed to collaborate with offices in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines and Vietnam, advising on domestic and cross-border M&A, private equity and venture capital transactions. The team acts for vendors, acquirers and financiers across the healthcare, technology, consumer goods, financial services, real estate and telecommunications sectors. Noted for his expertise in venture capital, start-ups and corporate governance mandates, S Sivanesan leads the team alongside Marian Ho, who is praised as a ’leading authority on both M&A and corporate compliance matters’, and ‘dedicated, prompt and professional’ Eng Leng Ng.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘On time and on budget, and always a pleasure to work with. Great depth of talent and breadth of experience.’

  • ‘Marian Ho is a leading authority on both M&A and corporate compliance matters. Reliable and dependable for in-house counsel.’

  • ‘Eng Leng Ng is dedicated, prompt and professional in responses.’

Key clients

  • Mobile TeleSystems Public Joint Stock Company
  • PerkinElmer, Inc.
  • SK Global Entertainment, Inc.
  • OPIS, A Dow Jones Company
  • Element Materials Technology
  • Segezha Group
  • Razer Inc.
  • Oman Investment Corporation
  • The Straits Trading Company Limited
  • Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited
  • Hyphens Pharma International Limited
  • SP Corporation Limited
  • SingHaiyi Group Ltd.
  • The Ascott Limited (TAL)
  • Boustead Projects Limited
  • Genera Group Holding S.p.A

Work highlights

  • Advising The Straits Trading Company Limited on its distribution of around S$217.9 million by way of distribution in specie of new ordinary shares of Straits Trading, or at shareholders’ election, up to 62,758,837 ordinary shares in the issued share capital of ESR Group Limited held by Straits Trading, to shareholders of Straits Trading.
  • Advising Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited on the voluntary conditional cash offer by OCBC, for and on behalf Sanjuro in connection with the voluntary conditional cash offer for all the issued and paid-up ordinary shares in the share capital of Hwa Hong Corporation Limited.
  • Advising PerkinElmer, Inc. in selling its Applied, Food and Enterprise Services business to the leading growth-oriented private equity firm New Mountain Capital.

Lawyers

Leading individuals

Eng Leng Ng

Eng Leng Ng

Dentons

Eng Leng is a senior partner and deputy head of Dentons Rodyk's Corporate practice group. He is also Co-Head of the Mergers & Acquisitions practice and the Singapore-Malaysia relationship partner. He leads and specialises in mergers and acquisitions and corporate work, and runs an active practice in domestic, regional and cross-border private and public mergers and acquisitions, privatisations, takeovers, corporate commercial, corporate finance, corporate restructurings, securities law, private equity and general corporate law work. His breadth and depth of experience and expertise extends across several industries and sectors including financial institutions, healthcare and technology. Eng Leng's work in public and private mergers and acquisitions and corporate and commercial transactions includes acting for both the sell-side and the buy-side (bilateral as well as by way of auction). He advises on and is also active in schemes of arrangement, investments, joint ventures, shareholder arrangements, and listed companies work. Clients include domestic and international corporates (listed and unlisted), private equity firms and family offices. He is also frequently consulted for his expertise in corporate and commercial strategies relating to such transactions.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

S Sivanesan, Eng Leng Ng, Marian Ho

Other key lawyers

Valerie Ong, Li Chuan Hsu, Evelyn Ang, Mark Wong