21 Asian Legal Business | September 2024 M&A Profile Clyde & Co 12 Marina Boulevard, #30-03, Marina Bay Financial Centre Tower 3, Singapore 018982 SG (+65) 6544 6500 singapore@clydeco.com www.clydeco.com Clyde & Co’s ASEAN Corporate/M&A team assist clients at every stage in the growth of their business – advising them on how to raise capital to grow, create, develop or acquire businesses. We advise major multinationals through to startups and strategic investors on complex multi-jurisdictional transactions, offering cross border expertise across our global network – serving clients in major sectors such as education, healthcare, hospitality, technology, fintech, marine, transport, renewable energy, offshore wind, offshore oil and gas, ports, logistics, construction, commodities, agri and insurance. From M&A, joint ventures (“JV”), venture capital and private equity (“VC/PE”) to corporate governance, reorganisations and debt offerings, we help our clients manage their transactions toward a successful outcome. We provide clients with an integrated approach and our M&A team is supported on transactions by our colleagues in regulatory and compliance, employment, commercial, and technology. We represent a diverse array of clients within the VC sphere, including investors and startups from various profiles and sectors, with a particular focus on fintech and technology growth companies, including e-commerce, insur-tech, healthtech and bio-tech in the region. We advise on all commercial transactions, as well as venture debt and troubled portfolio company situations, as well as on fundraising exercises throughout the startup’s life cycle. Our market-leading PE team provides clients with advice across the lifetime of an investment, from fund formation to investments, acquisition funding, as well as portfolio management and exits. We regularly advise on all aspects of PE, and have extensive experience representing clients in different industries, including buyers and sellers of public and private companies. Our expertise spans from early-stage and VC investments to the largest and most complex cross border M&A. Our foreign direct investment (“FDI”) group regularly advises on the establishment, structuring and reorganisation of transactions, acquisitions and disposals as well as on greenfield and brownfield projects. Thomas Choo Managing Partner, Clyde & Co Clasis Singapore Thomas leads the corporate and employment practices in Singapore with a focus on regional M&A (including VC/PE), corporate finance, regulatory and compliance, and employment matters. He also leads the corporate secretarial practices in Asia. Thomas is active on cross border corporate and VC/PE transactions across South East Asia and China and working with a wide range of clients with a particular focus on the technology, education, marine, insurance and healthcare sectors. Often working across multiple jurisdictions, Thomas advises on a full range of corporate transactions, including complex M&A, VC/PE, trade sales and competitive bids, JV, corporate restructuring and financing, privatisations and regulatory matters. He has advised clients on significant high-profile asset and business acquisitions and disposals, and innovative operating and financing arrangements. Thomas is also a Notary Public and a Commissioner for Oaths and is admitted as a solicitor in both Singapore and England & Wales. Ton van den Bosch Partner, Clyde & Co Clasis Singapore Ton is a corporate and project development specialist with a strong reputation in the renewable energy, offshore, logistics, ports, transportation, infrastructure, agri and terminals sectors in frontier and emerging markets in Africa, the Gulf and ASEAN. He has more than 15 years of experience with international law firms in Singapore, Amsterdam, New York and Jakarta and around 10 years of experience as general counsel, first of a global oil & gas contractor and, more recently, of a global listed terminal operator headquartered in the Philippines. Ton also leads Clyde & Co’s Dutch Desk. He has extensive experience advising on complex cross border corporate and finance transactions with a Dutch angle. Ton was a member of the board of the Dutch chamber of commerce in Singapore for five years and he is a regular author and speaker on topics related to infrastructure, energy and ports. Ton is dual qualified, admitted to the Dutch bar, qualified to practise as a solicitor in England and Wales and he is registered as a foreign lawyer in Singapore.
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