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Mr Teck Howe Tan

Work Department

Corporate Group; Corporate Real Estate Practice; Myanmar Practice.

Position

Partner – Corporate Real Estate and Myanmar Practices.

Career

Teck Howe has extensive experience in property-related work including sales and purchases, property regulatory and advisory work, property investment and management, property development, leases and property-related commercial contracts.

Work Highlights

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

• CapitaLand Limited in its acquisition of the Ascendas-Singbridge group of companies from Ascendas-Singbridge Pte. Ltd. The deal is valued at S$11 billion and makes CapitaLand the largest diversified real estate group in Asia, with assets under management of S$123.4 billion.
• Resorts World Sentosa and Genting Singapore’s expansion of the Integrated Resort on Sentosa island, Singapore, with the addition of two new themed attractions and two new hotels.
• Deka Singapore Raffles Place LP, a partnership comprising Deka Immobilien Investment GMBH, a unit of Germany’s Deka Group, and Deka Singapore A Pte. Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Deka Immobilien, in the sale of Chevron House, a 32-storey commercial development located in the central business district of Singapore, for S$660 million to Oxley Beryl Pte. Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Oxley Holdings Limited.
• Manulife Financial Corporation’s purchase of the entire equity stake in DBS China Square Limited which holds the property known as “PwC Building” based on an agreed property value of S$747 million from DBS Bank Ltd.
• DHL Supply Chain Singapore Pte. Ltd., part of the Deutsche Post DHL, in the development and lease of a built-to-suit warehouse, located at Greenwich Drive, Tampines LogisPark, Singapore.
• Changi Airport Group (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. in Project Jewel – a project for the development, construction, lease and management of the iconic aviation-related mixed-use complex at Changi Airport, Singapore, and in the joint venture with CMA Singapore Investment (6) Pte. Ltd. for the project.

Awards & Accolades

Teck Howe is recognised as a leading real estate practitioner by Chambers Asia-Pacific – Asia-Pacific’s Leading Lawyers for Business and has been recommended as a leading real estate lawyer by The Legal 500: Asia Pacific – The Guide to Asia’s Commercial Law Firms and Asialaw Profiles – The Guide to Asia-Pacific’s Leading Law Firms.

Chambers Asia-Pacific has praised him as “a steady pair of hands when it comes to real estate matters”. Clients have vouched that “he is very straightforward and hard-working and he would put himself on the line to get results for clients”. He has been lauded in The Legal 500 as being “very astute, strong in negotiations and able to explain complex concepts in an accessible manner”. Asialaw Profiles has lauded Teck Howe as having a “high level of professionalism and knowledge in his field” and a “strong grasp of legal concepts and ability to ‘think out of the box’ and remain composed during negotiations”.

Publications

• Getting The Deal Through – Real Estate – Singapore Chapter 2012 and 2013 editions
• Real Estate Finance & Investment Review 2014/15

Languages

English.

Memberships

Education

Admitted, 1997, Singapore Bar; Mansfield College, Oxford (BA (Hons) in Jurisprudence).