Singapore

Recent work highlights

Construction and development

• Advised civil works constructor for the Design and Build contract for Proposed Retention Pond associated drainage and backfilling works at Singapore Changi International Airport.
• Advised MCC Land in respect of their tender in Singapore under a PublicPrivate-Partnership (PPP) model, incorporating Marina East Desalination Plant elements of design-build-own and operate (DBOO).
• Advised the owner of a data centre on the development, facility structuring, and service agreements of its data centre operations in Asia.
• Advised a party in the Banyan Caverns Storage Services Consortium, in a successful tender by the Singapore Government (JTC Corporation) for a 15-year-old operatorship of the Jurong Rock Caverns in Singapore, being South East Asia’s first subterranean hydrocarbon storage facility.
• Advised the sponsors on a successful tender of a S$200m military installation project called by the Singapore Government (Defence Science Technology Agency) on a PPP scheme in Singapore which incorporates design, construction, operations and maintenance of the installation for a period of 25 years.
• Project counsel for Marina Bay Sands on the tender and development of their S$6bn integrated resort in Singapore.
• Advised an Australian real estate developer on claims arising from the ceiling collapse of their flagship mall in Singapore.

Investment and disposal

• Advised the multi-manager teams at Aberdeen Asset Management, UBS and LaSalle Investment Management on in excess of $5bn of APAC real estate fund investments.
• Advised Bouwinvest and LaSalle Investment Management on their three-way joint venture with Logos to acquire and develop a SGD 585 solar panel plant located in Tuas.
• Advised UBS on its acquisition of an interest in Chinatown Point, a large mixed-use development in the CBD.
• Advised Banyan Tree Hotels Group in connection with investments and disposals of interests in the Banyan Tree Lang Co Resort in Da Nang.
• Advised a consortium of Asian investors on their recapitalisation of a $250m US multi-family portfolio.
• Advised LaSalle Investment Management on its disposal of an interest in Parkway Parade, a mixeduse development in Singapore.
• Advised UBS on their acquisition of a substantial interest in the Jem shopping mall and office complex in Singapore.
• Advised GSA Group on the establishment of a three-way Singapore corporate joint venture to acquire and develop a PBSA site in Tokyo, Japan.
• Advised LaSalle Investment Management on its co-investment (through a Singapore corporate vehicle) in a $300m Shanghai office building.
• Advised Poly Property Group (HK) on its joint venture to own and develop a £100m residential development.
• Advised Kiwoom Asset Management Company on its acquisition of Cannon Green, a £120m office building.

Facts & Figures

Located in Singapore	3 real estate partners and 6 lawyers	Languages: English, Mandarin, Malay