Andrew ANG is a Partner in the Corporate/Mergers & Acquisitions Practice.

His main practice areas are mergers and acquisitions, sale and purchase of businesses, privatisation of companies, corporate restructurings, local and cross-border joint ventures, general corporate and commercial transactions.

Transactions of significance which Andrew has been involved in include acting for The Cairns Pte Ltd in a voluntary conditional offer for all the issued shares in The Straits Trading Company Limited for S$1.86 billion; The Ascott Group Limited in the privatisation by Somerset Capital Pte Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of CapitaLand Limited, for approximately S$989.5 million; Magnecomp International Ltd. in the sale of its controlling stake in Thai listed Magnecomp Precision, a HDD suspension manufacturer, to Japan's TDK Corp. for US$123 million; and Want Want International Limited in its delisting proposal and exit offer for the remaining shares in Want Want Holdings Ltd. for approximately S$850 million.

Andrew has also acted as Singapore counsel to CCMP Capital in an agreement with The Linde Group, the global gases company, to acquire BOC Edwards, a global supplier of integrated solutions for the manufacture of microelectronics devices, for approximately €685 million, and to a syndicate of investors in relation to their investment (by way of the acquisition of share capital) in ACR Capital Holdings Pte. Ltd. ("ACRCH"). ACRCH is in turn the sole shareholder of Asia Capital Reinsurance Group Pte. Ltd. which obtained approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore to carry out reinsurance business in Singapore. The US$620 million used to start up ACRCH is the largest-ever private placement deal in Asia.

Andrew graduated from the University of Nottingham and was admitted as a Barrister-at-Law (Gray's Inn). He was also admitted to the Singapore Bar.

Andrew is the co-author of the Singapore Chapter in the PLC Cross-border Handbook: Mergers and Acquisitions for both the 2008/09 and 2006/2007 editions and Getting the Deal Through - Mergers & Acquisitions for several editions including the 2007 Edition. He also co-authored a chapter on ALM Guide to Global Mergers & Acquisitions 2008 published by ALM Publication (2008).

You can contact Andrew at andrew.ang@wongpartnership.com.sg.

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