Mr Sin Wei Ong > WongPartnership LLP > Singapore, Singapore > Lawyer Profile

Mr Sin Wei Ong

+65 6517 8665 sinwei.ong@wongpartnership.com

Work Department

Corporate Group, Start-up/ Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, FinTech Practice.

Position

Co-Head – WPGrow: Start-Up / Venture Capital Practice; Partner – Mergers & Acquisitions; and FinTech Practices.

Career

Sin Wei has extensive experience in corporate and corporate finance matters including cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate/investment funds restructuring and fund formation. In addition, he has particular experience in matters involving the venture capital/start-ups (including FinTech), asset management, investment funds and insurance sectors.

Sin Wei trained and qualified as an English solicitor in London with a leading UK international firm. Prior to joining WongPartnership, Sin Wei worked with this leading UK international firm for about a decade in London, Beijing and Singapore. He also worked in Washington DC and Hong Kong S.A.R. with a leading U.S. international firm and a Magic Circle law firm.

Work Highlights 

• Red Date Technology, in the establishment of the BSN Foundation in Singapore which is the platform for the international expansion of the blockchain infrastructure of China’s Blockchain-based Service Network (BSN) — a public-private nationwide infrastructure project to spur mass adoption of blockchain technology in China (including for China’s digital yuan).
• Coinhako, Singapore’s largest provider of digital wallet solutions for holding cryptocurrencies and digital tokens, on its corporate restructuring and fundraising.
• Centrality, the blockchain-based marketplace platform, in its token generation event which raised US$100 million in CENNZ tokens in six minutes.
• Pacific International Lines, PSA International, YCH Holdings and Kerry Logistics in the formation of a Singapore consortium vehicle Connectivity Solutions Pte Ltd, for the purpose of a joint project between Singapore and China known as “Sino-Singapore Chongqing Connectivity Solutions”.
• Teleperformance as Singapore counsel in the acquisition of Intelenet Global Services, from Blackstone for US$1 billion.
• Expedia Inc. in its US$350 million minority investment in Traveloka Holding Limited, a leading South East Asian online travel company.

Awards & Accolades 

Sin Wei is recognised for his expertise in the area of Start-ups & Emerging Companies in Singapore by Chambers Asia-Pacific – Asia-Pacific’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2022, one client noted that “he understands how commercial deals work and understands the reality of those deals, he knows what you can and cannot do, and finds new ways and alternative methods to solve problems.”

Sin Wei is a recommended lawyer in The Legal 500: Asia Pacific – The Client’s Guide to the Asia Pacific Legal Profession 2018 for the area of Corporate and M&A in Singapore, and has been described as “friendly, responsive and highly knowledgeable”. He is recognised as a leading practitioner (since 2017) and as a thought leader (in 2020) by Who’s Who Legal: M&A and Governance, where he has been highlighted as an exceptional lawyer who “goes above and beyond to understand the needs and objectives of his clients.” He is also recognised as a notable practitioner in Corporate and M&A by IFLR1000 – The Guide to the World’s Leading Financial Law Firms, since 2018 where he has been praised for his “excellent support”.

Publications 

• WLG Venture Capital Guide – Singapore Chapter
• Getting The Deal Through – Private M&A, Singapore Chapter – 2019 – 2021 editions
• Singapore Institute of Directors – The Directors’ Bulletin – Overview of Legal Considerations When Investing In Emerging Markets
• Singapore Institute of Directors – The Directors’ Bulletin – Understanding Initial Coin Offerings

Languages

English

Education

Admitted, Singapore Bar; Roll of Solicitors of England & Wales; University of Birmingham (LL.B., Hons.); University of Pennsylvania School of Law (LL.M., Distinction for thesis)