Richard Young

Practice Areas

Corporate & Commercial; Mergers & Acquisitions; Private Equity; Restructuring & Insolvency

Career

Richard has extensive experience in domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions (with a particular focus on share and business acquisitions), local and regional joint ventures, schemes of arrangements, amalgamations, capital reductions, corporate reorganisations as well as general corporate and commercial law.

Richard joined the Firm on a scholarship in 1995 and became a Partner in 2000. During his time at the Firm, he undertook a secondment as Regional Legal Counsel for CNBC Asia and National Geographic cable channels in Singapore, and later with General Electric International Inc, in Hong Kong. He also had a one-year stint in the London office of Linklaters, where he gained considerable experience on cross-border transactions.

Publications

The Singapore chapter of IBA’s Negotiated M&A Guide.

The Singapore chapter of the Corporate Governance Review published by Law Business Research.

The Singapore chapter of Corporate Acquisition and Mergers published by Kluwer Law International.

The Control and Minority Protection chapter of Cross-Border Joint Ventures published by Practical Law.