Grace Ong

• Advised the Montfort Group, a global commodity trading and related-asset investment company, in relation to its acquisition of Uniper's crude oil processing and marine fuel trading business based in the UAE (“Uniper Energy DMCC”) via a joint venture with the Private Office of Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Al Maktoum.

• Advising Aldar Properties on the joint venture with an Abu Dhabi sovereign investor to acquire Al Maryah Tower, a prime Grade A commercial office property located on Al Maryah Island, Abu Dhabi.

Prior to joining Baker McKenzie:

• Acting for Standard Chartered Private Equity (Singapore) Pte Ltd and TH60 Investments Pte. Ltd. in their pre-conditional voluntary general conditional cash offer (the “Offer”), for all the issued and paid-up ordinary shares in the capital of Tat Hong Holdings Ltd (“THH”), through THSC Investments Pte. Ltd., a special purpose vehicle incorporated to undertake the Offer. The Offer valued THH at SGD 455 million based on the offer price of SGD 0.55 per offer share.

• Acting for EDB Investments Pte Ltd (“EDBI”, the investment arm of Singapore’s Economic Development Board) and Credence Capital Fund II (Cayman) Limited (“Credence”) in a funding round led by EDBI and Credence, which raised USD 30 million (SGD 39.3 million) in Series C funding, for Zimplistic Private Limited, a Singapore-incorporated company.

• Acting for Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co., Ltd in its investments in automobile companies, Proton Holdings Berhad (“Proton”) and Lotus Advance Technologies Sdn. Bhd. (“Lotus”) by way of a subscription for shares representing 49.9% of the enlarged paid-up share capital of Proton, and acquisition of 51% of the shares of Lotus.

• Acting for a consortium in the purchase of McDonald’s business in Singapore and Malaysia, from McDonald’s Corporation.

• Acting for Yuanta Financial Holding Co., Ltd., a company listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange, in its separate acquisitions of stockbroking companies in Indonesia and Thailand, through one of its subsidiaries.

• Acting for the Singapore subsidiary of a US semiconductor foundry, in its proposed joint venture with an industrial park located in the Peoples’ Republic of China and which is supported by its local municipal government.

• Acting for Amber Investment Holding (Cayman) Limited, a Blackstone entity, in its acquisition from Arch Capital Asian Partners, LP (acting through its general partner, Arch Capital Asian Partners, GP), of the entire issued and paid-up share capital of Highest Reach Investments Limited, which holds 34 strata units comprised in the residential development located at 21 Anderson Road, for SGD 164 million.

• Acting for Ekuiti Nasional Berhad, a Malaysian government-linked private equity fund management company, in its acquisition of a 100% stake in Burger King Singapore Pte Ltd, through its portfolio company, Rancak Selera Sdn Bhd.