Southeast Asia - Singapore

Bird & Bird ATMD LLP

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Focusing on industries with both a technology and regulation nexus, Bird & Bird ATMD LLP represents a swathe of major corporate venture capital companies, private equity firms, start-ups and emerging companies. Some of these high-growth sectors include aviation, life sciences and healthcare, media and telecoms, with practice head Marcus Chow being a trusted adviser to major clients within these areas both throughout Singapore and the wider Southeast Asia market. Sandra Seah is also active within the market and brings particular expertise in the energy sector, while counsel Jolie Giouw also comes highly recommended.

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Key clients

  • KludeIn I Acquisition Corp
  • Blockchain.com Group Holdings, Inc
  • United Overseas Bank Limited
  • EV Growth
  • Hyphen Group (Formerly known as CompareAsiaGroup)
  • ABC Impact
  • ACA Investments Pte Ltd
  • Cercano Management Asia Pte. Ltd
  • East Ventures
  • NOVI Health
  • MassMutual Ventures SEA Management Pte. Ltd
  • ST Engineering Ventures (STEV)
  • TreeDots Enterprise (Private Limited)

Work highlights

  • Acted as Singapore, French and Australian counsel for KludeIn I Acquisition Corp, in its merger with Near Intelligence Holdings which will generate US$268 million in gross proceeds and peg Near at a Pro-forma market capitalisation of nearly US$1 billion.
  • Advised Blockchain.com on its cash and stock acquisition of Altonomy Pte Ltd, a digital assets investment, market making and OTC firm founded in 2018.
  • Acted for UOB, a Singapore bank, on its Pre Series B investment in ADDX, a digital securities exchanges that uses blockchain and smart contract technology to tokenise and fractionalise private market opportunities.

Lawyers

Leading Individuals

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Marcus Chow

Other key lawyers

Jolie Giouw, Jeremy Tan, Sandra Seah