Mark Choy

Practice Areas

Mark Choy is the Co-Head of the Private Equity and Special Situations Advisory. He is also a Partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions, Indonesia and Middle East Practices. His main areas of practice are mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, general corporate and commercial work.

Mark has extensive experience advising acquirers and targets in cross-border M&A deals locally in Singapore and across Asia. His clients are both listed and private companies, in a range of industries. In addition, Mark supports the Special Situations Advisory Practice as they represent both debtors and creditors in cross-border restructurings and insolvency proceedings in the region. He provides invaluable strategic advice to both buyers and sellers in restructuring M&A transactions, covering aspects of bankruptcy and securities laws.

Publications

- Getting The Deal Through - Public Mergers & Acquisitions - Singapore Chapter, 2013 – 2018 editions

- Getting The Deal Through - Restructuring & Insolvency - Singapore Chapter, 2013 – 2017 editions

Work Highlights

Significant transactions that Mark has been involved in include advising / acting for the following:

- Temasek in several of its venture capital investments in financial technology firms as well as other start-ups such as fashion start-up Zilingo, global sports media property One Championship and e-commerce firm Sociolla, as well as investments in healthtech firm Halodoc, Indonesia’s Bank Artos and a joint venture with ST Telemedia and Triputra to build data centres in Indonesia..

- Investors across the spectrum of funding rounds, such as Sheares Healthcare Group as lead investor in Homage Co.'s US$30 million Series C funding round and Temasek in the Series A funding round of Growthwell Foods, a Singapore-based manufacturer of alternative meat and seafood.

- Singapore Reinsurance Corporation Limited ("Singapore Reinsurance") in relation to the voluntary conditional cash offer by SAC Capital Private Limited, for and on behalf of Fairfax Asia Limited, to acquire all the issued and paid-up ordinary shares in the capital of Singapore Reinsurance.

- Hyflux Ltd. a Singapore mainboard-listed infrastructure, construction and engineering company in a group restructuring exercise involving at least S$3 billion of debt.

- Vard Holdings Limited ("Vard") in the voluntary delisting of Vard from the Main Board of the Singapore Exchange following from the delisting proposal presented by Fincantieri Oil & Gas S.p.A., the majority shareholder of Vard.

- KKR in its investments in V3, a leading specialty retailer of luxury lifestyle and wellness products in Asia which owns two leading luxury brands, OSIM and TWG Tea and its acquisition of a stake in PT Nippon Indosari Corpindo Tbk., Indonesia's leading mass market bread company from Bonlight Investments Limited.