Xiao Hui Ting
Biography
Xiao Hui is a principal in the Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Group in the Singapore office.
She is an experienced M&A practitioner and acts for privately held corporates and private equity firms across a broad spectrum of industries, including healthcare, real estate, digital infrastructure, consumer and technology sector.
Xiao Hui is recognised as a Next Generation Partner for Corporate and M&A: Local Firms and M&A: Foreign Firms in Singapore by Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024. She is also recognised as one of Singapore's most influential lawyers aged 40 and under by Singapore Business Review, 2020. A client commended: "Xiao Hui Ting is able to attain a holistic understanding of various matters at hand, give her point of view and the relevant legal implications succinctly, and provide commercially sensible action items to help serve her clients’ best interests. She is a dealmaker, not a deal breaker, and that is exactly what we need as clients that live off M&A." – Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2021.
Practice Focus
Representative Legal Matters
- Advised a private real estate fund managed by one of the largest global asset managers on the formation of a joint venture with a Singapore mainboard listed real estate developer in Singapore, and advised the joint venture as international lead counsel on its acquisition of certain securities instruments in a real estate development in Singapore.
- Advised a Singapore-headquartered international business group in the sale of its interests in healthcare assets in the Philippines by way of an auction sale process.
- Advised UOB Venture Management Private Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of United Overseas Bank Limited as lead Series B investor in respect of its USD 28 million investment into Vietnam-based BuyMed Pte Ltd.
- Advised an Asian leading data centre provider on its acquisition of a data centre from a multinational web service provider by way of an acquisition of 100% of the shares of the property holding company.
- Advised two major private equity firms on their proposed divestment by way of a competitive auction process of one of their portfolio companies, a leading regional provider of premium serviced office workspaces.
- Advised Julius Baer Group Ltd (JBG) on the commercial terms of its joint venture with Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) for the setup and operation of private wealth management businesses in Singapore and Thailand.
- Advised EQT Greater China II Limited and Management on the sale through an auction process of 100 percent of the equity of Klassisk Investment Limited and the Classic Fine Food Group of Companies (across 14 countries) to the Metro Group for an enterprise value of USD 290 million plus earnout of up to USD 38 million (awarded Singapore Venture Capital Association PE deal of the year 2016, nominated for Asian Venture Capital Journal Mid-Market Exit of the Year 2015, and shortlisted for the ALB Southeast Asia Law Awards 2016 “M&A Deal of the Year (Midsize)”), having advised EQT on the original acquisition in December 2010.
- Advised Temasek Holdings Pte. Ltd. on its acquisition of exchangeable rights issued by Prime Star Investment Pte. Ltd. (wholly owned subsidiary of PT Multipolar Tbk), which are exchangeable for 26.1 percent of the share capital of PT Matahari Putra Prima Tbk for USD 300 million.
- Advised Hong Kong-based Park Hotel Group on their divestment of Park Hotel Clarke Quay to Ascendas for SGD 300 million, which won the Best Exit of the Year at the REIW Asia 2013 Awards for Excellence.
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Singapore Academy of Law – Member
- Law Society of Singapore – Member
Admissions
- Singapore (2009)
Education
- National University of Singapore (2009)
Languages
- English
- Mandarin