Pat Lynn Leong

Practice Areas

Leong Pat Lynn is a senior partner and Head of Dentons Rodyk's Real Estate practice group. She is also Co-Head of the Corporate Real Estate practice.

Pat Lynn's experience cuts across diverse real estate and banking and finance transactions. Her real estate experience includes acquisition and disposal of investment portfolios, sale and purchase of development sites as well as working on real estate aspects of banking and corporate merger and acquisition matters.

Over the years, Pat Lynn has represented various real estate developers in all aspects of development of residential, commercial and industrial properties. Her portfolio of work would also include leasing of commercial complexes for different uses like entertainment, shopping centre and office in Singapore. She has advised on sales and acquisitions with leaseback of commercial buildings and negotiated long term leases representing landlords or tenants for different uses.

She is involved in many projects dealing with various planning issues, the change of use and redevelopment of existing projects. Pat Lynn has represented land owners in projects involving dealings with the State and State agencies for the change of use and upgrading of lease tenure for the site and special purpose sites built for State agencies.

Pat Lynn's banking and finance experience includes representing both lenders and borrowers in numerous domestic loan transactions including negotiating and documenting all security and financing documentation, involving security being created over real estate and real estate project assets.

Pat Lynn has represented investors, REITs and property funds in some of Singapore's biggest corporate real estate acquisitions, including various Central Business District assets including Asia Square Tower 1 and 2, Mapletree Anson, 78 Shenton Way, 20 Anson Road, OUE Downtown, city fringe assets like 5One Central and iconic developments like the Crowne Plaza Hotel at Changi Airport, and the biggest portfolio deals like malls at Jurong Point 1 and 2 and Mapletree’s acquisition of 5 logistic assets. On banking and financing, Pat Lynn has dealt and advised lenders financing landowners and REITs of most of the major commercial or commercial related buildings including Suntec City, assets under Fraser Commercial Trust, the former CapitaCommercial Trust etc.