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Deborah Wong is a partner in the banking and finance practice. She acts for and advises financial institutions and borrowers on a range of domestic and cross-border transactions, including those relating to real estate financing and acquisition financing.
- Acting for the lender to part-finance the S$338 million acquisition by the borrower of Changi City Point retail mall;
- Acting for the original lender in the syndicated part-financing of a S$429 million acquisition by the borrower of a land parcel at Lentor Gardens by way of Government Land Sale;
- Acting for a syndicate of lenders in the S$115 million refinancing of a property loan secured by a 4-star hotel in Orchard Road Singapore;
- Acting for the lender in the S$560 million refinancing of a property loan secured by a shopping mall in District 13 in Singapore;
- Acting for the lender in part-financing the S$113 million acquisition by the borrower of the land parcel at Tampines North by way of Government Land Sale;
- Acting for an SGX-listed borrower in it is financing for the acquisition of an established engineering firm in Singapore with projects including Marina Bay Sands and Jewel Changi Airport
- Acting for the lender in financing the repurchase of motor vehicles by Lion City Rental, in accordance with the redemption of notes;
- Acting for the lender in part-financing the acquisition of a 5-star hotel in New Zealand;
- Acted for the lender in the granting of acquisition and development loan facilities for a cold-chain food logistics facility jointly developed by Commonwealth Capital, Kokubu Group Corporation and Japanese construction firm Kajima Corporation;
- Acting for the lender in relation to the financing of Woh Seng Holdings Pte Ltd’s acquisition of shares in Cheung Woh Technologies Ltd by way of a voluntary conditional offer; and
- Acted for lenders in various property financing transactions involving properties in the UK, Australia and Indonesia.
Other Transactions
- Acting for the lender in the financing of an industrial development in Benoi Sector;
- Acting for the lenders in providing syndicated facilities to environmental engineering companies;
- Acting for a lender in providing syndicated facilities to an SGX-listed healthcare company and its subsidiary;
- Acting for the lender in providing facilities to the subsidiary of an SGX-listed agribusiness conglomerate;
- Acting for the lender in part financing the share acquisition of a group of healthcare companies;
- Acting for the lender in part financing the en-bloc acquisition and development costs of the properties at 129 Selegie Road Singapore;
- Acting for a subsidiary of SGX-listed infrastructure and engineering company in the part financing of its acquisition and development costs of the properties at 71-85 Phoenix Heights Singapore;
- Acting for a CapitaLand-associate in the part financing of its acquisition of strata office space at 20 Cecil Street Singapore;
- Acting for the lender in part financing the en-bloc acquisition and development costs of the properties at 105 Sophia Road Singapore;
- Acting for the lender in financing the borrower’s development cost for construction and development of a hotel and retail mall in Singapore;
- Acting for the lender in part financing the en-bloc acquisition and development costs of the properties at Geylang Lorong 13 Singapore;
- Acting for the lender in part financing the acquisition price and development costs of a Jurong Town Corporation industrial site at Woodlands Avenue 12 Singapore;
- Acting for a trustee in its capacity as trustee of a Singapore REIT in its refinancing;
- Acting as local counsel for the lender in the cross-border acquisition by HKEX-listed entity of PRC mobile application and data service provider;
- Acting as local counsel for the lenders and mandated lead arrangers in financing the share acquisition of a global resources company by an international mining company;
- Acting as local counsel to the British Government and Indian telecommunications company in the financing and discharge of security over a global communications company;
- Acting as local counsel for the lender in the receivables financing to a multinational hotel and homes corporation;
- Acting as local counsel for global corporate oil and gas company in its incremental facilities transaction;
- Acting as local counsel for a multinational investment company in a cross-border financing for the company’s intra-group lending and working capital requirements;
- Acting as lead counsel for the lender and Indonesian security agent in the cross-border refinancing of facilities in connection with a luxury golf resort in Indonesia; and
- Acting as lead counsel for the lender in the cross-border refinancing in connection with strata title properties in Australia.