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• Great Eastern Holdings Limited in the S$1.4 billion voluntary general offer by Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited, as well as the subsequent proposal for the voluntary delisting of Great Eastern Holdings Limited or the resumption of trading of its shares on the SGX-ST by way of a bonus issue.
• CLA Real Estate Holdings, the offeror, in the S$21 billion strategic restructuring and demerger of the investment management business of CapitaLand Limited. 
• ESR Funds Management (S) Limited, as manager of ESR-REIT, in the S$1.4 billion merger with ARA LOGOS Logistics Trust by way of a trust scheme of arrangement. 
• A global investment firm in the S$2.1 billion rights issue by Sembcorp Marine Ltd and the distribution in specie by Sembcorp Industries Ltd. 
• Frasers Centrepoint Asset Management Ltd. (the manager of Frasers Centrepoint Trust) and Frasers Property Limited in the joint acquisition of a 50 per cent stake in Gold Ridge Pte. Ltd., which holds the suburban retail mall NEX, from Mercatus Tres Pte. Ltd. (a subsidiary of Mercatus Co-operative Limited) for S$652.5 million. 
• KKR & Co, a shareholder of PropertyGuru, in PropertyGuru's acquisition of REA Group's operating entities in Malaysia and Thailand and its US$1.8 billion merger with Bridgetown 2 Holdings, a SPAC backed by Richard Li and Peter Thiel. 

Related Practices

• Mergers & Acquisitions

• Getting The Deal Through – Private M&A, Singapore Chapter, 2022 – 2024 Editions
• Chambers and Partners – Singapore: An Introduction to Corporate / M&A: Domestic, 2024 – 2025 Editions 

The Legal 500: Asia Pacific – The Client’s Guide to the Asia Pacific Legal Profession

• Corporate/M&A – Next Generation Partner 

IFLR1000: Financial & Corporate – The Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms

• M&A – Rising Star Partner

IFLR Asia Pacific Awards 

• Rising Star of the Year, 2020