Soon Keong is a Partner in the Debt Capital Markets Practice.

His main areas of practice are debt capital markets, securities offerings, structured products 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:

  • 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.
  • Olam International Limited on its liability management exercise comprising an exchange offer and consent solicitation which involved Singapore dollar and U.S. dollar-denominated senior notes and perpetual securities. This is in connection Olam International Limited's business reorganisation.
  • 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.
  • Avatar Property and Casualty Insurance Company in the issuance by Casablanca Re Pte. Ltd., a special purpose reinsurance vehicle licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, of US$65,000,000 principal at-risk variable rate notes due 2021 comprised in two classes.

Related Practices

  • Debt Capital Markets