Gary Wan

Co-Head, Capital Markets
Director, Corporate & Finance

Qualifications

  • LL.B. (Hons), National University of Singapore (1998)
  • Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore (1999)
  • Solicitor, England & Wales (2004)

Gary co-heads the Capital Markets practice. He is also a Director in the Corporate & Finance practice.

He has practised in Singapore and the PRC and his experience covers a board range of corporate and commercial work including cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic investments and restructurings in Asia.

He previously practised at a leading international law firm, leading cross-border transactions across the region, in Hong Kong, Indonesia and Vietnam.

He has represented multinational corporations in their strategic investments as well as major financial institutions in their acquisitions in the financial services sector.

Gary was commended under the ‘Local Firm’ category for Corporate and M&A in The Legal 500 in 2016.

Gary’s headline transactional experience includes:

  • Acted as the as legal adviser on Singapore law to Tam Jai International Co. Limited, a Hong Kong-based F&B company, in its Initial Public Offering on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The global offering of 335 million new shares at a price of HK$3.33 per share raised about HK$1 billion from the offering after deduction of the relevant listing expenses.
  • Advising a PRC on-line insurance broker on its proposed initial public offering and listing on the Mainboard of the SGX-ST.
  • Advising a German company in the medical field on its proposed initial public offering and listing on the SGX-ST.
  • Advising Evergreen Investment Holdings Pte. Ltd. on its acquisition of an interest in a South Natuna Gas Field through the provision of a US$25 million convertible loan from Evergreen Investment Holdings Pte. Ltd. and Eden Capital Pte. Ltd.
  • Advising SoftBank on its investment in a new equity funding round for Grab Taxi (Southeast Asia's leading online transportation and payments platform and Uber's biggest rival in the region). Softbank and China's Didi Chuxing (the world’s leading one-stop mobile transportation platform) were the lead investors in the US$2.5 billion funding round, the largest single financing in Southeast Asia.
  • Advising SoftBank on its investment in a new equity funding round for an online transportation platform similar to Grab in India.
  • Advising Temasek on Singapore consortium arrangements with Hosen Capital and New Hope for the S$1 billion acquisition of VIP Petfoods from Quadrant Private Equity.
  • Advising Standard Chartered on its investment of up to USD75 million in COFCO International Limited, an SPV established to hold COFCO’s investments in Nidera Capital B.V. and Noble Group Limited.
  • Advising Resources Prima Group Limited in its reverse takeover by way of a proposed acquisition of the entire issued and paid-up share capital of Kitty Hawk Natural Resources Pte. Ltd
  • Advising M Development Ltd in its reverse takeover by way of a proposed acquisition of the entire issued and paid-up share capital of Antai Mining International Holdings.

Asia-Pacific Legal 500
Capital Markets 2024 – Recommended Lawyer for 3 consecutive years
Corporate/M&A 2016 – Recommended Lawyer

Gary leads “a team of committed lawyers with sound business acumen and industry knowledge that offers great client service and quick turnaround times... The team works as a whole, from a
multi-facet angle and provide its clients a holistic total solution.”

IFLR1000: The Guide to the World’s Leading Financial Law Firms
Capital Markets 2023 – Notable practitioner

"Knowledgeable, efficient, effective – and affable too." 

  • Member, Law Society of Singapore
  • Member, Singapore Academy of Law