Allen & Gledhill and Latham & Watkins have advised Singapore-based ground handler SATS on its $1.14 billion acquisition of French cargo-handling company Worldwide Flight Services (WFS), with Linklaters acting for seller Cerberus Capital Management.

Ashurst’s Singapore alliance firm, ADTLaw, has hired four lawyers from Allen & Gledhill, the largest firm in the city-state. Tao Koon Chiam joins as ADTLaw’s head of M&A for Southeast Asia, while Xiaozheng Ko and Choo Yi Ming join as director, and George Kho as associate director.

​​​​​​​The Ho Chi Minh City office of Singapore law firm Allen & Gledhill has hired corporate and banking expert Phuong Tran as a partner. Tran was most recently deputy head of legal at Vietnamese conglomerate Masan Group.

Allen & Gledhill has advised venture capital firm Insight Partners and U.S. private equity firm Smash Capital in their investment into Singaporean digital content monetisation platform Coda Payments.

Allen & Gledhill has advised CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust Management (CICT) as one of the two sellers of Singapore office building One George Street for S$1.28 billion ($950 million) to a joint venture between JP Morgan Asset Management and Nuveen Real Estate, with Rajah & Tann representing the purchasers.

Linklaters has advised Citigroup on the S$5 billion ($3.7 billion) sale of its consumer business in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam to Singapore’s United Overseas Bank (UOB), which was counselled by Allen & Overy.

Allen & Gledhill and Mori Hamada & Matsumoto have advised Daiwa House Logistics Trust  (DHLT) on its S$540 million ($396 million) IPO on the Singapore Exchange (SGX), with Allen & Overy representing the joint managers and bookrunners

​​​​​​​Allen & Gledhill, Singapore’s largest law firm, has hired Goh Eng Cher as co-head of the firm’s private wealth practice from JP Morgan.

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) and Dentons have advised Indian edtech startup Byju’s on its $600 million acquisition of Singapore’s Great Learning, which was counselled by Allen & Gledhill and Infinitus Law.

Allen & Gledhill has advised Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) on its S$2.24 billion ($1.65 billion) sale to conglomerate Keppel, which was counselled by WongPartnership.