Rajah & Tann Asia‘s large real estate team has extensive experience across acquisitions, divestments, built-to-suit developments, commercial leasing, and asset management, in both public and private markets. It has continued to advise on headline transactions involving commercial, industrial and residential properties. Large development and redevelopment sites, financings and leasings are important elements of the Singapore team’s work, which involves a significant volume of collective sales and purchases. Elsa Chai is an experienced practitioner in property purchases, sales and leases, along with development projects. Chou Ching has a focus on divestment and acquisition of development sites, commercial and investment properties, and industrial buildings. Norman Ho is hugely experienced in corporate real estate matters and active in multiple large-scale transactions, while Benjamin Tay is an emerging name in the market.
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‘Strong knowledge in the property sector.’
'The team has immense experience in all areas of real estate, including conveyancing of properties, acquisition of properties or real estate special purpose vehicles and financing. The combined and immense experience of Rajah & Tann Asia's real estate is unparalleled.'
Norman Ho is the 'go-to' real estate lawyer for all and any matters that are out of the ordinary and anything complex. His knowledge, experience and guidance to his team and clients are unparalleled. Having Norman involved in any transaction, you can be assured of the transaction being handled in good and safe hands.'
'The team is a pleasure to work with, very commercial and collaborative. They also share creative solutions.'
'The core team is very experienced across a multitude of transactions and work. During my tenure, the core team has remained stable, which is very beneficial to clients who do not have in house legal counsel and is able to leverage on their point of contact in the real estate practice, to assess and get consistent quality services from other partners in corporate law, Technology, Finance, etc, or abroad with partner firms in the region.'
The partners at the firm tend to be the ones who initiate and maintain the rapport. This makes it easier to open up and share with the counsel the concern to identify the pertinent issues, which I feel has led to the concerns being appropriately addressed on a timely manner.'
Key clients
- Lendlease Corporation
- Collective Sale Committee of Concorde Hotel & Shopping Mall
- CLIC Fund Management Pte. Ltd.
- Collective Sale Committee and owners of Delfi Orchard
- Keppel Infrastructure Fund Management Pte. Ltd.
- CapitaLand Ascendas REIT Management Limited
- Evia Real Estate (11) Pte Ltd
- Vista Maple Pte. Ltd.
- Ho Bee Land
- Spark61 Pte. Ltd.
- Elevate Capital Pte. Ltd.
- PARAGON REIT Management Pte. Ltd.
Work highlights
Acted for Lendlease in the joint venture project with Singtel for the redevelopment of the Comcentre precinct into a S$3bn sustainable workplace featuring the latest smart building and digital technologies.
Acted in the S$821m collective sale of Concorde Hotel & Shopping Mall, a mixed-use development (comprising a three-storey retail podium and 407-room hotel) located in Orchard, the largest collective sale for 2024.
Acted for the manager of CapitaLand Data Centre Trust in the divestment of 100% of the issued units in CLDCSG Trust, held by Perpetual (Asia) Limited to HSBC Institutional Trust Services (Singapore) in its capacity as trustee of CapitaLand Ascendas REIT.
Lawyers
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Next Generation Partners
Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.
Practice head
Elsa Chai; Chou Ching; Benjamin Tay
Other key lawyers
Norman Ho