A Singapore law firm has appointed a Private Equity and fintech group head from a local rival.
Singapore-based Colin Ng & Partners (CNP) has hired Terence Yeo as partner to head its private equity and fintech practice. Ng makes the move from another Singapore firm the Kelvin Chia Partnership.
Yeo joined Kelvin Chia Partnership in 2015 after a 10-years with Dentons Rodyk. Prior to that, he worked at Loo & Partners and A. Ang Seah & Hoe in Singapore.
Yeo will now head the Private Equity and Fintech Practice Group of CNP.
Finance Deals
He has been in practice for 17 years and has extensive experience in private equity and venture capital investments, mergers and acquisitions, technology, employment, and general corporate and commercial matters.
Among some of the significant cross-border transactions that Yeo has been involved include acting for Malayan Banking (Maybank) in a $1.5 billion deal to secure a controlling stake in Bank Internasional Indonesia in 2015.
He has also acted as Singapore counsel for hedge fund Tiger Global Four Holdings in its $60 million equity-cum-debt investment into Athena Projects, a holding company of hydroelectric and thermal power plants in India.
