Led by cross-border private equity and M&A transactional specialist Daniel Yong, Withers KhattarWong LLP assists clients operating in the fintech space with private equity, financial and technology transactions and strategic alliances. Privacy and data security compliance and financial services and bank regulatory advisory work are further strengths of the multi-disciplinary team. Tech specialist Joel Shen leads the startups and emerging markets practice at the firm. His varied portfolio of work encompasses tax structuring matters and advice on investments in tech companies. Leong Chuo Ming further extends the corporate transactional expertise at the firm. Senior associate Yap Ling Man is another name to note.

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Key clients

  • Accial Capital
  • Ant Group (Alipay)
  • MSS Real Estate Investments I Pte Ltd
  • Asia Self Storage Holdco Limited
  • Wallex Technologies Pte. Ltd.
  • Altara Ventures Pte Ltd
  • Global investors of Luna tokens and USDTerra stablecoins
  • Global investors of FTX
  • Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) Pte Ltd
  • Binance/Tokocrypto/BinaLoka
  • Hijra (previously ALAMI)
  • Dagangan Pte Ltd

Work highlights

  • Advised Accial Capital as agent and lender on an off-balance sheet loan financing to P2P lender Funding Societies Vietnam.
  • Acted for MSS Real Estate Investments I Pte Ltd and Asia Self Storage Holdco Limited on the sale of the Mandarin Self-Storage portfolio to Storhub.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Daniel Yong

Other key lawyers

Joel Shen, Leong Chuo Ming, Yap Ling Man