Mr Steven Lo > Drew & Napier LLC > Singapore, Singapore > Lawyer Profile

Drew & Napier LLC Offices

Drew & Napier LLC
10 COLLYER QUAY
#10-01 OCEAN FINANCIAL CENTRE
SINGAPORE 049315
Singapore
Visit website 65 6535 0733

Mr Steven Lo

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+65 6531 2798 steven.lo@drewnapier.com View profile

Work Department

Mergers & Acquisitions

Position

Head, Mergers & Acquisitions;

Co-Head, Capital Markets

Career

Steven’s practice focuses on corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions. He has represented issuers, underwriters and selling shareholders in a variety of domestic and international capital markets transactions. He has extensive experience in both private and public merger and acquisition transactions in Singapore and the region, having acted for bidders, target companies and financial advisers in such transactions.

A versatile individual with a wide range of expertise, Steven has also represented issuers, underwriters and selling shareholders in a variety of domestic and international capital markets transactions.

Steven has been noted in the Asia Pacific Legal 500 as a “highly experienced corporate/M&A lawyer”, for “providing solid advice” and for “understanding commercial issues and realities”. Steven was involved in the Asian Legal Business (ALB) Singapore Deal of the Year and Singapore M&A Deal of the Year (2008) for the takeover and tender offer for STATS ChipPac Ltd by Temasek Holdings Pte Ltd and the ALB Singapore M&A Deal of the Year (2010) for the takeover offer by PetroChina International (Singapore) Pte Ltd for Singapore Petroleum Company Limited.

More recently, he was involved in the ALB SE Asia Legal Awards 2018 M&A Deal of the Year (Premium) and Asian Lawyer Asia Legal Awards 2018 M&A Deal of the Year: Southeast Asia for the Privatisation of Global Logistic Properties as well as the Singapore Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (SVCA) PE Deal of the Year 2017 for the acquisition of Innovalues by NorthStar.

Languages

English

Memberships

  • Council Member and Legal Advisor , HCA Hospice Care, a Singapore registered charity providing comfort and support to patients with life limiting illnesses
  • Member, Law Society of Singapore
  • Member, Singapore Academy of Law
  • Adjunct Lecturer, Singapore Management University (Financial and Securities Regulation)
  • Independent Director, Chuan Hup Holdings Limited

Education

  • LL.B. (Hons), National University of Singapore (1995)
  • LL.M. Cambridge University (1998)
  • Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore (1996)
  • Solicitor, England & Wales (2000) (Non- practising)

Lawyer Rankings

Singapore > Capital markets: equity and debt: local firms

On account of its longstanding relationships with regulators, Drew & Napier LLC frequently assists foreign clients looking to list in Singapore, with demonstrable experience advising on reverse takeovers, rights issues and other equity-linked transactions, as well as debt capital markets mandates. Steven Lo, who represents issuers, underwriters and selling shareholders in a range of domestic and cross-border capital markets transactions, jointly leads the team alongside Gary Wan, who handles capital markets deals across the region, namely Hong Kong, Thailand and Vietnam. Renu Menon advises on transactional and regulatory debt capital markets matters, and Pei Tong Ng is another key contact in the group.

Singapore > Corporate and M&A: local firms

The team at Drew & Napier LLC, which ‘stands out for its distinctive blend of expertise and innovation’, handles a broad range of transactions in Singapore and Southeast Asia, with an increasing workload involving cross-border deals arising out of the energy and real estate sectors. Key clients include private and publicly listed corporates, venture capital and private equity funds, financial institutions, multinationals, family offices and government-linked funds and conglomerates, among others. An expert in public and private M&A, Steven Lo leads the team and Jon Nair is praised for his ‘unparalleled legal acumen and strategic thinking’, while Tan Teng Sen advises on privatisations, private equity transactions and joint ventures. Seraphina Ho is another key contact in the group.

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