UK law firm Reynolds Porter Chamberlain has launched an M&A practice in Singapore with the addition of a Quahe Woo & Palmer transactions team, including practice leader Kenneth Leong to head the group.
The launch of an M&A practice in Singapore is a response to an increase in client demand for deal advisory in Southeast Asia, RPC’s Asia managing partner Antony Sassi said in a statement.
This addition is RPC’s first lateral partner hire in Singapore in 10 months. In September last year, the firm welcomed technology expert Nicholas Lauw as a partner from Rajah & Tann.
Leong advises private equity funds and their portfolio companies, sovereign wealth funds, and family offices on high-value cross-border corporate transactions focusing on renewable energy, data centres, logistics, manufacturing, petrochemicals, medical technology, healthcare, education, and food and drink markets.
He had been a director at Quahe Woo since 2015, and a partner at WongPartnership prior to that.
Leong’s addition has taken RPC’s number of partners in Singapore to nine.
