Ms Gail Ong > WongPartnership LLP > Singapore, Singapore > Lawyer Profile

Ms Gail Ong

+65 6416 8205 gail.ong@wongpartnership.com View profile

Work Department

Financial Services Group; Equity Capital Markets Practice; Malaysia Practice;Thailand Practice; Real Estate Investment Trusts Practice.

Position

Head – Equity Capital Markets Practice.

Partner – Malaysia, Real Estate Investment Trusts and Thailand Practices.

Career

Gail’s experience includes U.S.-registered and Rule 144A/Reg S equity and debt offerings by issuers in various industries in Southeast and South Asia, in particular Singapore, Indonesia, India, Malaysia and Thailand.

Work Highlights

Significant transactions that Gail has been involved in include advising / acting for the following:

• The initial public offerings of companies listing on the Main Board of the Singapore Exchange such as VTAC (the first SPAC on SGX), APAC Realty Limited, EMAS Offshore Limited, Asian Pay Television Trust and IHH Healthcare Berhad and other listings such as the secondary listing by NIO Inc. and Sri Trang Gloves (Thailand) Public Company Limited and listing by introduction of CapitaLand Investment Limited.
• The initial public offerings of companies listing on the Catalist Board of the Singapore Exchange such as Hyphens Pharma International Limited and RE&S Holdings Limited.
• The initial public offerings of companies listing on the Indonesia Stock Exchange such as PT Integra Indocabinet Tbk and PT Aneka Gas Industri Tbk.
• The initial public offerings of companies listing on the Stock Exchange of Thailand such as Ananda Development Public Company Limited.
• The initial public offerings of companies listing on Bursa Malaysia such as Tune Ins Holdings.
• Secondary market transactions for companies such as Wave Life Sciences Ltd., Banyan Tree Holdings, Sembcorp Industries/Sembcorp Marine and Danone Probiotics Pte. Ltd.

Awards & Accolades

Gail is recommended as a leading lawyer in Singapore and Thailand by independent publications including, for Singapore: asialaw Leading Lawyers; Chambers Global – The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business; The Legal 500: Asia Pacific; Expert Guides – Guide to the World’s Leading Women in Business Law and Guide to the World’s Leading Capital Markets Lawyers; IFLR1000 – The Guide to the World’s Leading Financial Law Firms; Chambers Asia-Pacific – Capital Markets: Domestic: Singapore; Chambers Asia-Pacific – Capital Markets: International: Singapore; Who’s Who Legal: The International Who’s Who of Capital Markets Lawyers; Best Lawyers; for Thailand: Chambers Asia-Pacific – Corporate and Finance: Expertise Based Abroad; Chambers Global and IFLR1000’s Women Leaders Guide.

Chambers Asia-Pacific – Asia-Pacific’s Leading Lawyers for Business has praised Gail for being able to “bring a combination of international and Singapore capital markets experience to provide practical advice” and her “uncanny ability to anticipate issues and propose commercial solutions”. Chambers Global – The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business also described her as “a practitioner who is highly rated when it comes to managing complex transactions” and “a fine lawyer who is very popular in Thailand among the banks”. According to The Legal 500: Asia Pacific – The Client’s Guide to the Asia Pacific Legal Profession, Gail has been lauded as a “superb lawyer” who is praised for being “diligent, energetic and very thoughtful” while her “U.S. capital markets background provides added benefit on international transactions where she is able to anticipate issues and help structure the deal”.

Languages

English.

Education

Admitted, Singapore Bar and New York State Bar; National University of Singapore (LL.B., Hons.), 1996; University of Pennsylvania (LL.M.), 1998.