SOONG Wen E is a Partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Practices.

Her main areas of practice involve mergers and acquisitions, covering both public and private transactions, private equity investments, and general corporate and commercial transactions. 

Wen E is recognised as a “Next Generation Partner” by The Legal 500: Asia Pacific – The Client's Guide to the Asia Pacific Legal Profession and a “Rising Star Partner” by IFLR1000 – The Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms. She was also awarded “Rising Star of the Year” at the IFLR Asia Pacific Awards 2020.

  • KKR in the S$6.6 billion acquisition of STT GDC Pte. Ltd., a leading Singapore-headquartered data centre platform, from STT Communications Ltd. by a KKR-led consortium comprising Singtel.
  • 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.

Related Practices

  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Private Equity
  • Chambers APAC In-Depth Overviews 2026: Corporate/Mergers & Acquisitions – Domestic
  • Chambers Global Practice Guides – Commercial Contracts 2026
  • 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

Singapore Business Review

  • Top 20 Under 40 Lawyers, 2025

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Qualifications

Singapore Management University (LL.B., Magna Cum Laude)

Singapore Bar

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