WongPartnership LLP

Corporate Real Estate; Real Estate Investment Trusts

Dorothy Marie Ng is a Partner in the Corporate Real Estate Practice.

Her practice spans nearly four decades of the full spectrum of property and property-related matters and transactions. Her experience encompasses a variety of acquisitions, dispositions, leasing and development of land (including residential, commercial and industrial properties), sorting out complicated titled, sales by mortgagees and management corporations and secured financing in respect thereof, and working together with other practices, she has advised banks, co-operatives, financial institutions and corporations in bilateral loans, syndicated loans, multicurrency loans, joint ventures and developments, asset and business acquisitions, restructuring and built to suit projects. Her clients include banks, private and public corporations, funds, real estate investment trusts (REITs), individuals, partnerships and statutory boards.

She has been a member of the Disciplinary Tribunal appointed by the Chief Justice under the Legal Profession Act since 1995 and is a member in the Compliance Committee, Singapore Institute of Legal Education since inception in 2011. Dorothy is also a member of the Valuation Review Board appointed by the Minister for Finance in 2021, and a member of the Panel of Adjudicators of the Law Society's Expedited Adjudication Scheme.

Dorothy is recognised as leading real estate lawyer in Chambers Asia-Pacific – Asia Pacific's Leading Lawyers for Business, a leading partner in Real Estate in Singapore by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific – The Client's Guide to the Asia Pacific Legal Profession, an Elite Practitioner in Real Estate in asialaw Profiles – The Guide to Asia-Pacific's Leading Law Firms, and recognised in Best Lawyers. She is also recognised as a Global Leader for Real Estate and National Leader for Southeast Asia for Real Estate as well as Banking in Lexology Index.

Dorothy was awarded "Best in Real Estate" at the Euromoney Legal Media Group Asia Women in Business Law Awards in 2015 and 2016. She was named in Expert Guides: Best of the Best 2017 for Real Estate and was recognised as the best Real Estate lawyer in Singapore in Expert Guides: Best of the Best 2015. More recently, Dorothy is listed in Asia Business Law Journal’s Singapore Top 100 lawyers 2023, 2024 and 2025 (including foreign lawyers practising in Singapore). She is also recognised as "Lawyer of the Year" in the 2022 edition of Best Lawyers for Real Estate Law.

Dorothy graduated from the National University of Singapore. She is admitted to the Singapore Bar and the Roll of Solicitors of England & Wales.

Relevant Experience:

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

JTC Corporation ("JTC") in its long-term lease of a building in the course of construction at Punggol Digital District (intended to be Asia’s premier smart and sustainable business district which is master planned and developed by JTC) to United Overseas Bank Limited ("UOB") for its new global technology and innovation centre to house; and JTC’s: Divestment (the first by a Singapore statutory authority) of its portfolio of ready-built industrial assets (comprising flatted factories, ramp-up and stack-up factories and multi-tenanted business park buildings) for S$1.71 billion to Mapletree Industrial Trust (a joint venture between Mapletree and Arcapita); and in phase two of JTC's divestment exercise of two tranches of properties in Singapore to Soilbuild Group Holdings Ltd. and DBS Trustee Limited (as trustee of Mapletree Industrial Trust) for a total of S$688.63 million. CapitaLand Ascendas REIT Management Limited (in its capacity as manager of CapitaLand Ascendas REIT), in its acquisition of a cold storage logistics facility in Singapore through the purchase of A3 SG ETA Pte. Ltd. from A3 Lux Alpha S.a.r.l for a purchase consideration of S$191.9 million. The Purchaser, in the indirect acquisition of the shares in Tuas South Avenue Pte Ltd, the head lessee of a JTC property located at 20 Tuas South Avenue 14 Singapore comprising a high-specifications manufacturing facility 100% leased to REC Solar Pte. Ltd. and a new Green Mark Platinum certified ramp-up logistics warehouse leased to various blue-chip multi-national tenants at a total consideration of approximately $840 million. Taiwan’s Vanguard International Semiconductor Corporation’s subsidiary, f VisionPower Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Pte. Ltd. ("VSMC"), in advising and assisting in negotiations of VSMC’s 30-year lease from JTC Corporation at Tampines Industrial Avenue 2, Tampines Wafer Fab Park, Singapore. GrabTaxi Holdings Pte. Ltd. in connection with the development and lease of a purpose-built building (the "Building") to be built at one-north business park, Singapore, specifically for use by Grab and its various related entities. The 30-year leasehold interest for the land was obtained by HSBC Institutional Trust Services (Singapore) Limited (in its capacity as trustee of Ascendas Real Estate Investment Trust ("Ascendas REIT")) from the Jurong Town Corporation for a land premium of approximately S$84 million, and the Building will be developed and constructed by Ascendas REIT at a cost of S$181.2 million. The M+S Group Companies (which are wholly-owned subsidiaries of M+S Pte. Ltd., a joint venture company 60% owned by Khazanah Nasional Berhad and 40% owned by Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited) in the grant of up to S$5 billion loan facilities arranged by a syndicate of eight lenders, for the development of two integrated projects (which will include office, residential, hotel and retail components) in downtown Singapore located at Marina South and Ophir-Rochor; and the subsequent sale of the hotel (Andaz Hotel) and the office and retail components in Ophir-Rochor.

Publications:

Chambers Global Practice Guides - Real Estate Singapore chapter since the 2017 – 2020 editions Getting The Deal Through - Real Estate Singapore Chapter, 2012 and 2013 editions Real Estate Finance & Investment Review 2014/15

English, Mandarin (spoken)