Soon Keong is a Partner in the Debt Capital Markets Practice and Mergers & Acquisitions Practice.

His main areas of practice are securities and structured product offerings, securitisations, local and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, and general corporate and commercial transactions.

Soon Keong graduated from the Singapore Management University and is admitted to the Singapore Bar.
 

Matters of significance which Soon Keong has been involved in include the following:

  • SATS Ltd. (SATS) on its partnership with Mitsui & Co., Ltd where the latter will invest S$36.4 million for a 15% stake in Food Solutions Sapphire Holdings (HoldCo), a holding vehicle established by SATS. HoldCo will acquire an interest in four SATS subsidiaries, namely Country Foods Pte. Ltd., SATS (Thailand) Co, Ltd., SATS Food Solutions India Private Limited, and SATS (Tianjin) Food Co. Ltd., which undertake food solutions businesses in Singapore, Thailand, India and China respectively.
  • A fully integrated owner, operator and franchisor of hotels, resorts and residences on the restructuring of the client's Asia Pacific hotel management and intellectual property portfolio and business, and assisted with the transfer of the relevant contacts and licenses from their Hong Kong office to Singapore.
  • CMA CGM as Singapore counsel and co-ordinating counsel for APAC in its acquisition of 100% of Bolloré Logistics for an enterprise value of approximately €5 billion.
  • SportsHub Pte. Ltd. on the termination of the Sports Hub Public-Private Partnership by Sport Singapore and the transition of the operations to the new entity, Kallang Alive Sport Management Co Pte. Ltd.
  • Pacific International Lines (Private) Limited on the restructuring of the approximately US$3.3 billion in aggregate of debts and liabilities of the shipping group via a consensual debt re-profiling exercise with its creditors in Singapore.
  • Frasers Property Limited and Frasers Property Treasury Pte. Ltd. in the reconfiguration of its Euro Medium Term Note programme to accommodate the exempt bond issuer framework and seasoning framework under a separate retail trustee and agent, and its issuance of S$500 million 4.49% green bonds under the exempt bond issuer framework to retail investors. This transaction represents the first corporate issue of retail green bonds in Singapore.

Related Practices

  • Debt Capital Markets

  • Mergers & Acquisitions

IFLR1000

  • Capital Markets: Debt - Rising Star Partner

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Qualifications

Singapore Management University (LL.B., Hons.)

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