SINGAPORE / PROFESSIONAL BIOGRAPHIES
Valerie Ong Partner
Rodyk & Davidson LLP Singapore
Tel: +65 6885 3625 Email:
valerie.ong@rodyk.com Web:
www.rodyk.com
Kannan Ramesh Managing Partner, Senior Counsel
Tan Kok Quan Partnership Singapore
Tel: +65 6496 9508 Email:
kannanramesh@tkqp.com.sg Web:
www.tkqp.com.sg
Clients told IFLR1000 that: “[Valerie Ong] knows her
stuff...she’s very good in her area of
work...she protects clients’ interests. She’ll go the extra mile for her client.”
Biography: Valerie Ong is a partner in Rodyk & Davidson’s corporate practice group and heads the firm’s corporate finance practice.
Valerie has represented funds and property developers in some of the city’s largest corporate real estate acquisitions, including 78 Shenton Way (valued at S$608 million), nex shopping mall (purchase consideration S$800 million); Twenty Anson (S$430 million); Crowne Plaza Changi Airport (S$299.5 million), and DBS Building Towers 1 and 2 (S$870.5 million). Valerie’s cross-border work includes advising CapitaLand in its investment in the consortium (which includes a Temasek unit). The Rmb21.1 billion (S$4.1 billion) project at Chao Tian Men, Chongqing, is reported to be CapitaLand’s largest development in China to-date.
Valeriehas actedinover20listings (including S-chips). Notably,she acted for Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Holdings in itsglobaloffering and listing on the SingaporeExchange (SGX)which raised almost S$1 billion and remains possiblySingapore’slargest S-chip IPOto- date. In 2013, sheacted in the SGX mainboardlistingof Pacific Radiance (which raised S$154.7 million, valuing the company at S$653.2 million).She has also servedasSingaporecounsel in the listings of InternationalHousewares RetailCompany (HKSE stock code 1373), Global Palm Resources Holdings (SGX), Vision Fame InternationalHolding (HKSE), China Kangda Food Co (HKSE) and Asia Distribution Solutions (AIM).
In debt capital markets work, Valerie acted as issuer counsel in four MTN programmes in 2013; namely for Tee International, Eu Yan Sang International , Heeton Holdings and KSH Holdings. Valerie also represented these issuers in their inaugural note issues under their MTN programmes.
Practiceareas: Corporate and commercialCorporate finance
Sector specialisations: Banking and financial services Energy and infrastructure Investment funds
Languages: English and Mandarin Bar admissions: Singapore, England and Wales (Solicitor)
Biography: Ramesh heads TKQP’s Dispute Resolution, and Restructuring practice groups. Ramesh has handled a variety of disputes with particular emphasis on commercial, banking, land insolvency related disputes. His clients include financial institutions, statutory bodies, government-linked corporations, listed corporations, export-import agencies, insolvency practitioners and high-net worth individuals and funds.
Recent transactionalhighlights: •Acted as counsel in the arbitration of a private banking dispute involving complex financial derivatives.
•Acted as counsel in a highly publicised dispute between the shareholders of YES F&B Group, which operates the Dian Xiao Er chain of restaurants.
•Acted as defence counsel in a closely watched white collar prosecution case against the leaders of a prominent church.
•Represented Labroy Shipbuilding and Engineering, Labroy Marine, Drydocks World-Singapore, Drydocks World-South East Asia, Labroy Offshore Engineering, Dubai World in a transnational restructuring scheme.
•Acted for the Aman chain of hotels in a shareholders and bondholders dispute arising from a private equity investment.
Practicearea: Litigation and arbitration
Sector specialisation: Corporate and banking litigation/arbitration Insolvency litigation Land disputes Commercial crime litigation
Languages: English, Tamil and Mandarin Bar admissions: Singapore
Association memberships: Fellow of the International Insolvency Institute New York Member of INSOL International, London Fellow of the Insolvency Practitioners Association of Singapore
Academic qualifications: Bachelor of Law
Related articles by this lawyer: Getting the Deal Through – Restructuring and Insolvency in 51 jurisdictions worldwide, Singapore Chapter, 2010
Doing Business – Closing a Business Survey, Singapore Chapter, World Bank, 2009-2011
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