Mr Mark Choy > WongPartnership LLP > Singapore, Singapore > Lawyer Profile

Mr Mark Choy

+65 6416 8014 mark.choy@wongpartnership.com View profile

Work Department

Corporate Group; Mergers & Acquisitions Practice; Indonesia Practice; Middle East Practice; Special Situations Advisory Practice.

Position

Co-Head – Private Equity, Special Situations Advisory, Indonesia and Middle East Practices and a Partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions Practice.

Career

His main areas of practice are mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, general corporate and commercial work.

Work Highlights 

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

• Temasek in several of its venture capital investments in financial technology firms as well as other start-ups such as fashion start-up Zilingo, global sports media property One Championship and e-commerce firm Sociolla, as well as investments in healthtech firm Halodoc, Indonesia’s Bank Artos and a joint venture with ST Telemedia and Triputra to build data centres in Indonesia..
• Investors across the spectrum of funding rounds, such as Sheares Healthcare Group as lead investor in Homage Co.’s US$30 million Series C funding round and Temasek in the Series A funding round of Growthwell Foods, a Singapore-based manufacturer of alternative meat and seafood.
• Singapore Reinsurance Corporation Limited (“Singapore Reinsurance”) in relation to the voluntary conditional cash offer by SAC Capital Private Limited, for and on behalf of Fairfax Asia Limited, to acquire all the issued and paid-up ordinary shares in the capital of Singapore Reinsurance.
• Hyflux Ltd. a Singapore mainboard-listed infrastructure, construction and engineering company in a group restructuring exercise involving at least S$3 billion of debt.
• Vard Holdings Limited (“Vard”) in the voluntary delisting of Vard from the Main Board of the Singapore Exchange following from the delisting proposal presented by Fincantieri Oil & Gas S.p.A., the majority shareholder of Vard.
• KKR in its investments in V3, a leading specialty retailer of luxury lifestyle and wellness products in Asia which owns two leading luxury brands, OSIM and TWG Tea and its acquisition of a stake in PT Nippon Indosari Corpindo Tbk., Indonesia’s leading mass market bread company from Bonlight Investments Limited.

Awards & Accolades

Mark is recognised for his work in Corporate/M&A by Chambers Global – The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business and Chambers Asia-Pacific – Asia-Pacific’s Leading Lawyers for Business. He has also been recognised as a leading Corporate/M&A lawyer in Best Lawyers since 2014 and a leading M&A lawyer in Who’s Who Legal: The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers and Who’s Who Legal: The International Who’s Who of Mergers & Acquisitions Lawyers.

He is recommended in The Legal 500: Asia Pacific – The Client’s Guide to the Asia Pacific Legal Profession since 2017 in both Corporate/M&A, Restructuring & Insolvency. Mark is recognised as a Highly Regarded lawyer in both M&A, Restructuring and Insolvency by IFLR1000 – The Guide to the World’s Leading Financial Law Firms.

Mark has received plaudits in Chambers Asia-Pacific as a lawyer that “understands the big picture of the deal, not just the nitty-gritty of the legal side” and “good in terms of both knowledge and commercial sensibility”. In IFLR1000, he has been praised as “admirably combines all the key traits a client looks for: approachability, responsiveness, resourcefulness and competence”.

Publications 

• Getting The Deal Through – Public Mergers & Acquisitions – Singapore Chapter, 2013 – 2018 editions
• Getting The Deal Through – Restructuring & Insolvency – Singapore Chapter, 2013 – 2017 editions

Languages

English, Mandarin.

Memberships

Member, Law Society of Singapore.

Education

Admitted, 1999, Singapore Bar; University of Nottingham (LL.B., Hons.)