Venture Capital/ Private Equity

• AG Active Fund 1: Leading, advising and acting for the Lead Investor, AG Active Fund I, L.P. in its US$5 million investment into Sarisuki Pte. Ltd's US$12.7 million Series A equity fundraising round and subsequent convertible financing round. AG Active's substantial investment and strategic position as a Philippines-based investment fund is to fuel expansion of the Company's business of operating a social grocery commerce platform into the Philippines.
• AG Active/ Kickstart Ventures: Leading, advising and acting for the Lead Investor, AG Active in a US$5 million Series A funding investment in Manila-based food-tech startup Mosaic Solutions. The round also had participation from returning investors Gentree Fund and Investible. With its latest round of funding, Mosaic Solutions will use its resources to develop and refine its cloud-based platform and expand its user base in the Philippines.
• Closed Loop Growth Opportunities Fund L.P.: Leading, advising and acting (alongside our Dentons office in New York) for Closed Loop Growth Opportunities Fund, LP, a New York-based growth equity fund, in its participation in EcoSpirits Pte. Ltd.'s US$8 million Series A equity fundraising round. EcoSpirits is involved in the development, engineering and sale of environmentally conscious low-carbon, low-waste spirits packaging and technology for premium spirits and wine to reduce the costs and environmental impact in the spirits supply chain.
• Kickstart Ventures, Inc: Leading, advising and acting for the lead investor Kickstart Ventures Inc. in its participation in Ruralnet Pte. Ltd.'s US$2.15million series seed fundraising round. Ruralnet is a Philippines-based digital insurance platform startup whose plug-and-play software helps digital financial service providers easily cross-promote and sell insurance on their existing mobile and web apps. The round was subscribed by fellow co-investors in the South East Asia region such as Gentree Fund, Kaya Founders and Foxmont Capital. The funds raised will assist in broadening RuralNet's brokerage, CashKo, which provides microinsurance solutions to SMEs.
• Maven Capital: Advised and acted for one of the UK's most active and leading private equity firms, Maven Capital Partners ("Maven"), and on behalf of its Venture Capital Trusts, in their £2.5 million equity investment in the award-winning sustainability solutions provider, Turnkey Group Ltd. ("Turnkey"), whose innovative SaaS technology platform, Sustainion, supports businesses to map performance against ESG frameworks and regulatory requirements. The secured funding will scale Turnkey's workforce and technology platforms, while accelerating its 5-year growth plan - fuelling future expansion plans across regions in Asia and Europe throughout.
• Olive Tree Capital: Advising and assisting Boston-based Olive Tree Capital which led a US$15m Series A round investment in Karbon Card, a fintech company specializing in corporate cards, with participation from Harmony and Avenir Growth Capital. Karbon intends to use the investment proceeds to grow its business towards becoming India’s first Neobank designed especially for the corporates.
• Quona Capital: Advised and assisted Quona Capital in its participation in the subsequent fund-raising rounds of Broom and Sunday Insurance. 
• Cento Ventures: Advised and assisted Cento Ventures in leading the US$2.5m funding round of Jakarta-based lending infrastructure provider Finfra with participating by Z Venture Capital, Accion Venture Lab and other existing investors. The new funding round aims to bolster Finfra’s efforts to deliver more efficient lending solutions for underserved business sectors across the region.
• The University of Tokyo-Edge Capital: Advising and acting for the venture capital arm of The University of Tokyo-Edge in pre-Series A investment of $4.25 million in Eureka Robotics with participation from Vietnam’s Touchstone Partners and Eureka’s seed round investor ATEQ. Also assisted in client's follow-on participation in subsequent Series A investment round that was led by B Capital. Funds received would help to accelerate the development of the Company’s main product, Eureka Controller, which enables system integrators and manufacturers to deploy high accuracy-high agility tasks in factories.    
• Several other investment-related transactions involving family offices, limited partners, institutional funds, corporate VCs from Indonesia and Singapore to India and beyond.

Start-Up/Early-Stage/ Emerging Entities 

• Validus Investment Holdings Pte Ltd: Advising and acting for market-leading peer-to-peer lending platform Validus in its Series C fund-raising round which had participation from renowned investors such as 01Fintech, Vertex Ventures and Vertex Growth, FMO, Vinacapital Ventures and strategic investments from major East Asian players NongHyup Financial Group, NorinChukin Bank, Aizawa Asset Management and Lotte F&L Singapore. Also advised and assisted Company in its previous equity rounds including a US$20m Series B+ funding round led by Vertex Growth Fund and Kuok Group’s Orion Fund with participation by existing investors such as FMO, Vertex Ventures, Openspace Ventures, Vietnamese investment manager VinaCapital and AddVentures (an investment unit of Thailand’s Siam Cement Group). 
• ROKT Pte Ltd (“Rokt”): Advising and acting for e-commerce marketing technology Sydney-founded, New York-based unicorn - Rokt in its secondary transactions where valuation of Company increased from US$1.95billion to US$2.4billion. Also assisted in its US$325million Series E funding round led by investment firm, Tiger Global Management and involving other prominent investors such as Wellington Management, Whale Rock Capital Management, Pavilion Capital and existing shareholder Square Peg. The funds would be used in part to make acquisitions, invest in research and development and in hiring.
• Dozer Data Pte Ltd: Advised and acted for Dozer Data Pte. Ltd. ("Dozer Data") in its seed fund-raising round worth US$3 million backed by SEA Surge Ventures I, January Capital Fund II Pte. Ltd., and Gradient Ventures III LP. Dozer Data provides a no-code data infrastructure platform that deploys highly scalable APIs with minimal configuration for the development of data applications.
• Zenith Learning Group: Advising and acting for the Company, Zenith Learning Group Pte. Ltd,. in its US$1.4million series seed equity fundraising round. Zenith is a fast-growing educational institution offering educational enrichment classes to students all through the schooling system in Singapore, and provides holistic educational resources to its students through its development of the novel Edutech learning platform.
• Phasio Pte Ltd: Advising and acting for the Company, Phasio Pte. Ltd,. in its AU$2.5million series seed equity fundraising round, attracting investment from prominent global investment funds AirTree Ventures and 500 SEA and seeing follow-on investment from existing stakeholders Entrepreneur First. Phasio specializes in the provision of software solutions and support to SME manufacturers globally to assist in streamlining and digitising their workflow processes. Also assisted in advising on and establishing its Employee Share Option Plan.
• Vilo Creamery: Advising and acting for Vilo Gelato, Indonesia’s leading artisan ice-cream brand in securing a confidential amount of funding from Singapore-based gender lens investor SWEEF Capital. The Vilo founders’ passion for empowering women and supporting local communities is at the heart of their business strategy. The company not only aligns with Sweef Capital’s social impact principles but also underlines the solid business case for gender equality.
• Several other early-stage entities and founders from Indonesia and Singapore to India and beyond.

M&A/ Corporate

• Zeronorth A/S: Advising and acting for ZeroNorth A/S in its 100% share acquisition of BTS Pte. Ltd., a Singapore-based company specialized in providing innovative IT Bunkering solutions to maritime small-medium enterprises .
• SpaceAge Labs: Advising and acting for the Company, SpaceAge Labs Pte. Ltd., in the acquisition by the strategic investor, Gradiant International Overseas Pte. Ltd,. of a majority controlling stake in the Company. The investment made by the strategic investor will provide strategic and tailored expertise in the Company's expansion and growth in its business model of providing cutting edge remote monitoring and IoT solutions combining hardware, low power wireless connectivity and advanced software that helps operations and maintenance teams increase uptime, reduce costs and improve safety.
• Luno Pte Ltd (formerly known as BitX) and its founders: Leading, acting for and advising cryptocurrency platform company, Luno, on the buyout by an existing shareholder – Digital Currency Group (a global enterprise that builds, buys, and invests in blockchain companies) of all the remainder shares from the founders and all other shareholders for a confidential sum in a transaction that span various jurisdictions including Singapore, South Africa, USA, United Kingdom and Europe. Also advised and acted for Company and its founders in previous fund-raising rounds including a US$9 million Series B Investment by Balderton, RMIH and Digital Currency Group and a US$4 million Series A investment in this FinTech entity by PayU, a subsidiary of Naspers, and Digital Currency Group.
• Tolaram Group (“TG”) and Tolaram Africa (“TA”), a subsidiary of TG: Assisting on a long-term joint venture between TA and NYSE-listed Kellogg Company (“KC”) to 1) create a partnership between TA and KC to develop snacks and breakfast foods for the West African market and 2) acquire 50% in the Multipro Group, a subsidiary of TG and the largest distributor of food products in Nigeria and Ghana, for US$450 million (S$634 million). Subsequently advising TG and TA on a follow-on transaction amounting to a further US$419 million (S$553 million) in relation to Kellogg’s increased investment in West African businesses, mainly 1) the exercise of a call option by a wholly owned subsidiary of leading multinational food manufacturing company Kellogg Company ("Kellogg") to acquire a 50% stake in Tolaram Africa Foods Pte. Ltd. (“TAF”), a holding company of a leading manufacturer and marketer of packaged foods in Nigeria and Ghana; and 2) the sale of a 1% stake in the Multipro Group, the largest distributor of food products in Nigeria and Ghana.
• Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (“MCC”): Advising MCC on the Singapore law aspects of its cross-border restructuring and amalgamation matters which involved combination of entities in Singapore and Japan worth, in aggregate, over billion yen in asset value. Continue to advise on its corporate matters in Singapore.
  Canada-based Hunter Amenities International Pte Ltd: Acting for Hunter Amenities in the acquisition of Woleco Hotel Supplies Pte Ltd (“Woleco Distribution”) including coordinating foreign counsel across Thailand, Indonesia, China, India, Malaysia and Taiwan in restructuring and change of control related matters pursuant to the purchase of Woleco Distribution from American Hotel Register Company for confidential amount.
• Several other business-related/ corporate transactions under Singapore Law and corporate secretarial work for various clients across various industries and verticals such as construction, chemical, medical devices, hospitality etc.