About

Joining Mapletree in 2009 when it was a fledgling real estate developer and capital management firm with S$10bn of assets under management, Wan Kwong Weng has seen the company grown massively in the years since. Three IPOs and significant expansion into the Australian, European and US markets later, the company now has S$46bn and six private funds. ‘It has been an exhilarating journey’, he says when recalling the company’s expansion, ‘to work across platforms with dedicated and visionary real estate practitioners’. This period also saw Weng’s professional abilities grow exponentially with the company, and he goes into just some of the lessons she has learned with Mapletree: ‘First, in private fund syndication, I learnt quickly on cross-jurisdictional selling restrictions. Second, I learnt to lean on the strengths of team members and activate cross-disciplinary skills. Third, staying focus is key. As group general counsel, I manage a team of dedicated corporate in-house lawyers, compliance colleagues and other supporting roles like corporate secretariat and corporate communications. We work together and let the results speak for themselves’. Weng is looking forward to the future attentively, and believes the company has an extremely positive future: ‘Mapletree has grown from strength to strength with a strong profit after tax and minority interests, and I am looking forward to our next phase of growth’. Weng has worked on a large acquisition of a mixed-use complex in Ho Chi Minh City in 2016 and has helped create a footprint of over 40 logistics greenfield warehouses project in China.