Eldon Chan
Sidley Austin LLPRepresenting start-ups, emerging growth companies and major investors in Singapore, Sidley Austin LLP advises on all aspects of the tech investment cycle encompassing seed rounds, venture, capital growth investments, pre-IPO investments and exits. Led by Parthiv Rishi, the team works in close coordination with the firm’s private equity, regulatory and capital markets offerings in Shanghai, Hong Kong, London and the US.
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Testimonials
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‘Hardworking, diligent, and open to being commercially minded.’
‘Polite, respectful, hardworking and passionate about getting a good outcome.’
'Eldon Chan is always on-the-ball.'
‘The team is very responsive, knowledgeable, detail-oriented, commercial and presents their findings and recommendation in a very user-friendly format.’
'Sidley Austin's team provides tailored and commercially sound solutions. We appreciate the attention the team devotes to our business and their ability to provide high quality advice.'
'Sidley is well-resourced, highly responsive, and the team is excellent and able to handle both Singapore and US style deals and everything from Series A through to late stage deals.'
'Eldon Chan is very responsive, detail-oriented, commercial and presents his recommendation in a very user-friendly format.'
'Parthiv Rishi is a great partner to work with. He is approachable and easy to deal with, responsive, hands on, manages and leverages his team and the Sidley network well and can be counted on to get deals done and find solutions to complex matters or difficult issues.'
Key clients
- 65 Equity Partners
- KKR (Next Generation Technology Fund)
- Jungle Ventures
- EE Capital
- Lightspeed India Partners
- Sequoia Capital
- Lever Venture Capital
- Hillhouse Capital
- Y Combinator
- Xora Innovations
Work highlights
- Represented 65 EP on its S$150 million investment in Cityneon Group, its biggest investment to date. 65 Equity Partners is an independently managed investment firm wholly owned by Temasek Holdings.
- Represented KKR’s next generational technology fund in a number of investments in the past year, including as lead investor in the A$108 million Series B financing round of Advanced Navigation, an Australian headquartered developer of AI robotics and navigation technology.
- Represented Jungle Ventures in a number of investments in the past year, including as lead investor in the Series A funding round of Edupia.
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Practice head
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Parthiv Rishi