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Our Corporate M&A Practice

RPC as a firm has a well-established, internationally focused Corporate team comprising home-grown RPC lawyers and lateral hires from leading corporate firms. Our teams, based in Singapore (operating through joint law venture RPC Premier Law), Hong Kong and the UK, work for some of the biggest global corporations across various industries including energy, insurance, real estate, retail and consumer, technology and media. 

Our Singapore Corporate M&A team is known for its ability to offer the large firm pedigree and experience that enable corporates, investment funds and high-profile institutional clients to entrust us with their transactional work across a diverse range of industry sectors including exciting new economy and high-growth areas such as renewable energy, digital infrastructure and medical/ bio-technology. We also guide businesses through every stage of their growth cycle, from establishment through to the day-to-day corporate and regulatory support, as well as their fund-raising efforts as they seek out investments to finance their expansion plans locally and regionally.


Practice Achievement

Our Corporate M&A team in Singapore has extensive experience advising clients on a broad range of domestic and cross-border M&A deals and strategic joint ventures spanning across multiple industries and sectors, including retail and consumer, media and technology, data centres, renewable energy, petrochemicals, medical technology, healthcare and education.

We are able to cater seamlessly to the needs of local and international clients on services including:

  • Acquisitions & Buy-outs
  • Commercial Contracts
  • Corporate Governance & Regulatory
  • Corporate Real Estate 
  • General Offers & Privatisations
  • Investment Fund-Raising
  • Joint Ventures
  • Sell-side Auction Processes 
  • Variable Capital Companies

 

Comprising experts from well-known and leading M&A practices in Singapore, our corporate M&A team has been steadily anchoring its position and reputation in the market. Helming the Singapore corporate practice, Kenneth Leong is a highly regarded M&A lawyer who has been widely recognised by leading industry indices such as Chambers Asia Pacific, Legal 500 Asia Pacific and IFLR1000.

 

Kenneth Leong
Partner

 

Kenneth has extensive experience handling complex and high-value transactions, and is a specialist in mergers and acquisitions (M&A). He leads the Corporate M&A team at RPC Premier Law.

 

Kenneth typically acts for private equity funds, corporates, family offices, sovereign wealth fund backed entities, and public listed companies. His sector expertise spans media and technology, data centres, food and beverage, renewable energy, petrochemicals, medical, technology, healthcare, education, and retail (including logistics and manufacturing).

 

Apart from offering transactional expertise, Kenneth also assists several private-equity portfolio companies and other clients with their general corporate and commercial needs. This include advising on corporate governance, regulatory, employment, distributorship and franchising matters.

 

A highly regarded corporate M&A lawyer in Singapore, Kenneth has consistently been ranked for his expertise by Chambers Asia Pacific, Legal 500 and IFLR1000.

 

Kenneth is based in Singapore and practices out of Premier Law LLC.

Lau Kiat Wee
Partner

 

Kiat Wee is an expert in corporate and regulatory law and specialises in mergers and acquisitions, financial services regulatory advisory, and investment fund formation and transactions.

 

His clients include fund managers specialising in private equity, venture capital, real estate, and hedge funds, in addition to institutional and private wealth investors. Kiat Wee also advises small and medium-sized businesses and growth companies.

 

In the financial regulatory space, Kiat Wee has particular experience in assisting clients with the submission of licence applications to the relevant regulatory authorities for approval (including fund management and other capital markets licences, which are regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore).

 

Kiat Wee is based in Singapore and practices out of Premier Law LLC.