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Stephenson Harwood LLP Offices
8 Marina Boulevard #29-01
Marina Bay Financial Centre Tower 1
Singapore 018981
Singapore
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Jay Tai
Work Department
Corporate
Position
Jay is a partner in the corporate department. His practice focuses on private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and complex corporate and commercial transactions.
Career
Jay has extensive experience representing regional and global private equity funds, venture capital funds, hedge funds, investment banks and strategic investors in their investment activities throughout Asia, particularly in China and Southeast Asia, including buyouts, control, growth, secondaries, and restructurings. He has advised clients on deals involving on a broad range of industries, including real estate, manufacturing, health care, education, telecommunications, and media; and jurisdictions in Asia, including China, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Malaysia.
Lawyer Rankings
Singapore > Corporate and M&A: foreign firms
The ‘highly responsive’ team at Stephenson Harwood LLP handles private equity and venture capital investments across South and Southeast Asia, with demonstrable experience in the transport and maritime, technology and healthcare sectors. Acting in a formal alliance with Virtus Law LLP, the practice is well-placed to advise on the domestic and international aspects of transactions. Praised as an ‘excellent technical lawyer, whose client service is second to none’, Tom Platts leads the team and handles M&A, strategic joint ventures and corporate restructurings. Other key contacts in the team include US-qualified Jonathan Goacher, who joined the team from Hill Dickinson LLP in May 2023, Jay Tai who joined from Proskauer Rose LLP‘s Hong Kong office in October 2023, and of counsel Helen Rhind-Hufnagel.