Our Expertise
Our expertise spans the full range of corporate, finance and restructuring work including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, capital markets, private equity, venture capital, structured finance, debt restructuring as well as their supporting disciplines
Our core team has worked with leading law firms in both London and Singapore (including Magic Circle and top local firms) for over 40 years in aggregate and have a notable track record of closing profiled multi-jurisdictional transactions across APAC and beyond.
Mergers and Acquisitions
We support corporates, investors and startups, across a broad range of industries, on M&A, joint ventures, strategic alliances and other alternative forms of business collaboration and help our clients navigate their most important and complex transactions while delivering creative solutions and innovative structures that are second to none. This includes addressing challenges at each stage of a company’s life cycle and bringing our experience, across a range of supporting disciplines, to bear, as part of a seamless service. Our lawyers have advised on and closed numerous local and cross-border transactions across a wide range of industries, and have assisted both public and private companies in achieving their commercial objectives. Whether you are seeking strategic growth, transformatory acquisitions or entry into new markets or opportunities, our team will be there to guide you through the same.
Private Equity and Venture Capital
Against the backdrop of rapid innovation, growth and an ever-evolving regional business environment, we advise private equity houses, venture capital firms, strategic financial investors and startups (including high-growth tech-focused companies), across various sectors, on acquisitions, debt and equity financing, disposals, exits and early-stage and venture funding rounds. We are invested and plugged into the tech and startup ecosystem. By proactively leveraging our networks to help make strategic connections, we create synergies for our clients and their investees across sectors and practice disciplines.
Finance and Debt Restructuring
We support corporates, financiers, and financial services intermediaries across the entire spectrum of finance transactions. Our expertise extends from secured and unsecured lending by financial institutions and funds to venture debt. Our debt restructuring experience includes working on schemes of arrangement with litigation counsel, liability management transactions (e.g. exchange offers, tender offers, consent solicitations) and bilateral settlements. These transactions have involved both private and publicly listed debt.
Our seasoned lawyers are able to analyse intricate financing matters and craft pragmatic solutions that align with the business objectives of our clients. With our team’s wealth of experience, we are well-equipped to identify and assess the legal risks that accompany complex cross-border financing transactions, as well as to develop strategic risk mitigation strategies. We have supported a wide range of clients in different jurisdictions around the world and have an in-depth understanding of the legal and practical nuances of executing transactions in both sophisticated jurisdictions and emerging markets.
Capital Markets
Our team of skilled lawyers have extensive experience advising both issuers and underwriters on a wide range of capital markets transactions. From initial public offerings and secondary offerings to debt securities issuances and regulatory compliance, our expertise covers every facet of the capital markets landscape and includes listings in the US, London, Luxembourg, Singapore, Hong Kong, India and Indonesia, amongst others. Having worked on various landmark international equity and debt capital markets deals, we are well-placed to assist clients with navigating the complexities of the international capital markets. Our strong legal acumen and deep understanding of financial concepts, market trends and economic factors further enables us to provide the commercially-oriented support that clients need to achieve their fundraising goals in today’s rapidly evolving market conditions.
Corporate Advisory and Commercial
In an increasingly complex regulatory environment with heightened scrutiny on corporate governance, we handle a comprehensive and diverse spectrum of corporate and commercial matters, from initial inception of a business through to day-to-day operations. We guide and support management teams and boards of directors on a range of corporate governance matters and provide advice across a broad spectrum of issues, including in relation to directors’ responsibilities and fiduciary duties, compliance processes, licensing requirements and corporate secretarial and regulatory issues. Our team has extensive experience advising on, drafting and negotiating a wide range of commercial agreements (including, for example, collaboration agreements, supply agreements, franchise and distributorship agreements and service agreements). We pride ourselves on helping our clients navigate challenging issues (whether these are purely legal or sit outside the technical legal sphere) with a focus on sound governance, practical efficacy and risk management.
Employment
Our team advises both local and multi-national corporations, as well as employees, on a wide range of employment and HR-related issues across different sectors. We are able to assist clients with a full range of employment matters, including the drafting and review of employment contracts, policies and employee handbooks, advising on issues relating to termination, statutory welfare and retrenchment benefits, post-termination obligations (including restrictive covenants), employee share option and incentive plans, benefit structures and compensation schemes. Our experience and industry knowledge extend from advising on day-to-day human resources requirements through to critical global business change projects and transactional matters (including the transfer of labour in the context of business sales); we are able to both anticipate issues relating to recruitment, employment, management and compensation of employees, as well as offer pragmatic solutions and innovative, client-oriented advice as such issues arise.
Data Protection
Our team advises and supports clients in their efforts to comply with the constantly expanding universe of data protection requirements, including in relation to confidentiality, secrecy, IP rights, privacy policies, data storage, retention and destruction, privacy complaints and investigations, data access requests and transfer and disclosure agreements. We use our experience in this area to deliver innovative, practical and implementable advice, to address compliance risks and ensure that appropriate privacy and security protections are built into commercial relationships.
Technology Transactions
We assist companies across sectors with their technology-related procurement and outsourcing requirements, helping them generate efficiencies as they grow and seek to remain competitive. This includes advising clients on master services agreements, IP licences, development agreements, software licensing, SaaS agreements, service level agreements, hardware procurement and professional services agreements, data evaluation agreements, maintenance and support agreements, proof of concept agreements, distribution agreements and complex joint ventures and strategic alliances involving the same. We have also advised various clients on cutting-edge matters in the technology space, including on AI, blockchain and digital asset-related issues. Our work covers the full range of services from regulatory advice on payments and securities laws to drafting bespoke documentation and general transactional support.
