TAN Li Wen

Significant transactions that Li Wen has been involved in include advising / acting for the following:

• Frasers Amethyst Pte. Ltd. in the S$3 billion and S$1.8 billion financings, granted by syndicates of lenders, in relation to the acquisition of Australian developer Australand Property Group ("Australand"). The acquisition of Australand was awarded "Best Singapore Deal" at the FinanceAsia Awards for Achievement 2014.
• DBS Bank Ltd. as financier in the US$890 million financing to STATS ChipPAC Ltd. (the "Borrower"), in connection with the voluntary conditional general offer by a special purpose vehicle JCET-SC (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (the "Offeror") for all the issued and paid-up ordinary shares (excluding issued and paid-up ordinary shares held by the Borrower as treasury shares but including shares issued and paid-up upon the valid exercise or vesting of options and awards) in the capital of the Borrower, other than those already owned, controlled or agreed to be acquired by the Offeror, its related corporations and their respective nominees. The deal was named "Asset & Corporate Finance Deal of the Year" at the ALB SE Asia Law Awards 2016.
• Transaction counsel to the lenders in the grant of an offshore (Singapore) secured term loan facility (in conjunction with an onshore (PRC) secured term loan facility, in each case, to wholly-owned subsidiaries of ARA China Investment Partners, LLC for the purposes of refinancing existing offshore and onshore term loan facilities taken out by such subsidiaries.
• Cityview Place Holdings Pte. Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of City Development Limited, in the S$300 million and S$450 million financings secured over the W Singapore, Quayside Isle and units at The Residence at W Singapore located at Sentosa Cove.
• Perennial Shenton Property Pte. Ltd., as borrower, in the refinancing of the acquisition of, and the S$3 billion green loan syndicated financing of the project development at, 8 Shenton Way. Mandated lead arrangers are DBS, OCBC, UOB, Bangkok Bank, Maybank, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, China CITIC Bank and Hong Leong Finance Limited. DBS and OCBC are also the Green Loan Advisors. This financing is also the largest syndicated green loan financing in Singapore as at the date of closing of the transaction.
• A prominent global food and beverage brand and its subsidiaries in a S$190,000,000 financing extended by United Overseas Bank ("UOB") and Cathay United Bank, as original lenders, for the purposes of refinancing certain existing facilities. UOB was also the sole mandated lead arranger, underwriter, bookrunner and sole global coordinator as well as facility agent and security agent for the transaction. This financing also ran in parallel with a Taiwanese financing, the purpose of which was to acquire a stake in a globally renown restaurant chain.

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